Louise Nevelson

The first complete monograph dedicated to one of the most important American artists of the twentieth century.
Louise Nevelson (1899-1988) was born in Kiev, Russia and immigrated to Rockland, Maine at the age of six. Following her marriage in 1920, Nevelson moved to New York City. It was during the mid-Fifties that she produced her first series of black wood landscape sculptures. Shortly thereafter, three New York City museums acquired her work: the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Brooklyn Museum and The Museum of Modern Art. In 1967, the Whitney Museum organized Nevelson's first retrospective, and her work has been the subject of over 135 solo exhibitions.
Key Sales Information - This gorgeous monograph is a sort of catalogue raisonnés and presents an impressive collection of 560 works: 100 large format works in full page reproductions and 460 reproductions of installations, collages and designs, arranged in chronological order.
- The artist's works are accompanied by some 200 images of documents, photographs, magazine articles, invitations, catalogues as well as 50 works by her contemporaries, a broad historical documentation of the period, and a timeline of the historic, political, artistic and cultural events that shaped the artist's world.
- The volume is completed with a collection of quotes by the artist on a great variety of topics, a bibliography and a list of collective exhibitions.
Author Germano Celant was Senior Curator of Contemporary Art at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York from 1989 to 2008. Internationally known for his writings on Arte Povera, in 1987 he received the Frank Jewett Mather Award, the most prestigious American prize for art criticism. He has been a contributing editor at Artforum since 1977 and at Interview since 1991.