Research Catalog

Title

Lee Bontecou : drawn worlds / Michelle White ; with writings by Dore Ashton and Joan Banach.

Author

Bontecou, Lee, 1931-2022

Publication

• Houston : Menil Collection ; [2014]
• New Haven : distributed by Yale University Press
• ©2014

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Details

Additional Authors

• White, Michelle, 1979-
• Ashton, Dore
• Banach, Joan
• Helfenstein, Josef
• Menil Collection (Houston, Tex.), sponsoring body, host institution.
• Princeton University. Art Museum, host institution.

Description

144 pages : chiefly illustrations (some color); 29 cm

Summary

"Lee Bontecou (born 1931) established a significant reputation in the 1960s with pioneering sculptures and reliefs made of raw and expressionistic materials. Her art is simultaneously organic and mechanical, and infused with biological, geological, and technological motifs. These same qualities also animate a less-known but compelling body of work: her drawings. Ranging from her early soot on paper works created using powder from a welding torch to recent drawings in pencil and colored pencil that evoke cosmoses and microcosmic worlds, this stunning book is the first retrospective survey of Bontecou's consistently innovative drawings. More than sixty full-color plates, populated by imagery ranging from black voids to mechanomorphs to hybrid descendants of teeth, plants, and fish, are complemented by original essays from leading scholars who explore themes such as the drawings' historical contexts, Bontecou's use of the iconography of the void, and the eco-apocalyptic themes of an artist who came of age in the roiling political atmosphere of the 1960s"--Amazon.com, viewed April 10, 2014.

Alternative Title

Drawn worlds

Subject

• Bontecou, Lee, 1931- > Exhibitions

Note

• "Published in conjunction with the exhibition Lee Bontecou: drawn worlds, organized by The Menil Collection, Houston, curated by Michelle White. The Menil Collection, Houston, January 31-May 11, 2014; Princeton University Art Museum, New Jersey, June 28-September 21, 2014"--Title page verso.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 142-143).

Contents

Foreword / Josef Helfenstein -- Acknowledgments / Michelle White -- Lee Bontecou's drawn worlds / Michelle White -- On Lee Bontecou / Dore Ashton -- Lee Bontecou's ledger / Joan Banach.

Call Number

JQF 14-603

ISBN

• 9780300204131 (hardcover)
• 0300204132 (hardcover)

LCCN

2013953663

OCLC

861671716

Author

Bontecou, Lee, 1931-2022, artist.

Title

Lee Bontecou : drawn worlds / Michelle White ; with writings by Dore Ashton and Joan Banach.

Publisher

Houston : Menil Collection ; [2014]

Distributor

New Haven : distributed by Yale University Press

Copyright Date

©2014

Type of Content

still image

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 142-143).

Added Author

White, Michelle, 1979- author.

Ashton, Dore, writer of added commentary.

Banach, Joan, writer of added commentary.

Helfenstein, Josef, writer of added commentary.

Menil Collection (Houston, Tex.), sponsoring body, host institution.

Princeton University. Art Museum, host institution.

Research Call Number

JQF 14-603