Research Catalog

Title

Mary Ann Unger : to shape a moon from bone / edited by Horace D. Ballard ; with contributions from Eve Biddle, Zoe Dobuler, and Sarah Montross.

Publication

• Williamstown, Massachusetts : Williams College Museum of Art, [2022]
• ©2022

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Details

Additional Authors

• Ballard, Horace D.
• Biddle, Eve
• Dobuler, Zoe
• Montross, Sarah
• Franks, Pamela
• Williams College. Museum of Art, host institution.

Description

103 pages : illustrations (some color) (some folded); 28 cm

Summary

"Rising to prominence in the downtown New York art scene in the 1980s and 1990s, multidisciplinary artist Mary Ann Unger (1945-1998) was skilled in graphic composition, watercolor, large-scale conceptual sculpture, and environmentally responsive, site-specific interventions. At the time of her death, Unger was a member of the Guerrilla Girls and acknowledged as a feminist pioneer of neo-expressionist sculptural form. Accompanying Unger's first solo museum presentation in the twenty-first century, this publication aims to revive and redirect cultural and scholarly attention on Unger's pioneering and lyrical practice, which was set aside in favor of the cishet male-dominated narrative of postwar American sculpture. Taking the reprinting of Roberta Smith's 1999 obituary for Unger as its starting place, the book's essays provide the artist her first fulsome consideration within the New York art milieu of her day, tracing Unger's life, her studies, and her network of artists and mentors. Following the exposition of Unger's life and practice, an interview with the artist's daughter will position Unger's legacy within the collaborative discourse and activism of a multigenerational family of artists. Two other essays will closely examine Unger's work in the context of contemporary conversations around feminist revisionings of history and modes of cultural appropriation and inspiration in her oeuvre. The catalogue concludes with a bibliography of various texts for further reading, in hope that such a reconsideration gives rise to further scholarly interest in Unger's practice"--

Alternative Title

To shape a moon from bone

Subject

• Unger, Mary Ann > Exhibitions
• Unger, Mary Ann
• Sculpture > Exhibitions

Genre/Form

• Exhibition catalogs.
• Art.

Note

• Published in conjunction with the exhibition held at the Williams College Museum of Art, July-December 2022.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

Mary Ann Unger : influences and arrangements / Horace D. Ballard -- Gathering : a roundtable conversation / Horace D. Ballard, Eve Biddle, and Sarah Montross -- The things we carry : Mary Ann Unger's Across the Bering Strait / Zoe Dobuler -- Power objects : forms to rival the moon / Horace D. Ballard.

Call Number

JQF 22-1433

ISBN

• 9781646570263
• 164657026X

LCCN

2021062559

OCLC

1301270418

Title

Mary Ann Unger : to shape a moon from bone / edited by Horace D. Ballard ; with contributions from Eve Biddle, Zoe Dobuler, and Sarah Montross.

Publisher

Williamstown, Massachusetts : Williams College Museum of Art, [2022]

Copyright Date

©2022

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references.

Added Author

Ballard, Horace D., editor.

Biddle, Eve, contributor.

Dobuler, Zoe, contributor.

Montross, Sarah, contributor.

Franks, Pamela, writer of foreword.

Williams College. Museum of Art, host institution.

Research Call Number

JQF 22-1433