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Elizabeth Murray / Robert Storr.

Title
Elizabeth Murray / Robert Storr.
Author
Storr, Robert
Publication
New York : Museum of Modern Art : Distributed in the United States and Canada by D.A.P./Distributed Art Publishers, c2005.

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  • Murray, Elizabeth, 1940-2007
  • Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.)
  • Institut Valencià d'Art Modern.
Description
220 p. : ill. (some col.); 29 cm.
Summary
Elizabeth Murray has radically altered the structure of Modernist painting. Her shaped and constructed canvases, often topologically modeled in three dimensions or fitted together out of multiple jigsaw-like parts, treat figure and ground in unprecedented ways, giving the elastic shapes of classic Surrealism a space in their own image. The alternatively comfortable and cataclysmic world that her images depict would crack irreveocably if it followed Euclidean logic; instead, it constantly metamorphoses under stress. With a chaptered essay by Robert Storr, plate section, an in-depth interview, the book will explore Murray's relation to artists such as Joan Miro, Stuart Davis, Claes Oldenburg and Frank Stella, as well as to the mainstream and opened up options for rising generations. This book accompanies ths most detailed examination of Murray's art yet mounted, showing its development from Pop-oriented reliefs in the 1960s to the extraordinary volumetric of her recent work.
Subject
  • Murray, Elizabeth, 1940-2007 > Exhibitions
  • Murray, Elizabeth, 1940-2007 > Criticism and interpretation
Genre/Form
  • Criticism, interpretation, etc.
  • Exhibition catalogs
  • Interview (Descripteur de forme)
Note
  • Published in conjunction with an exhibition held at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, Oct. 23, 2005-Jan. 9, 2006 and at the Institut Valencià d'Art Modern, Valencia, Spain, June 8-Sept. 3, 2006.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 209-221) and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Acknowledgments -- Elizabeth Murray: Shape Shifter -- Plates -- Interview with Elizabeth Murray -- Chronology -- Bibliography -- Exhibition History -- Index of Plates -- Lenders to the Exhibition -- Trustees of The Museum of Modern Art.
ISBN
0870704931 (hbk.)
LCCN
^^2005932160
OCLC
61217847
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library