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Binding: HardcoverDewey Decimal Number: 759.13 EAN: 9780870704932 ISBN: 0870704931 Label: The Museum of Modern Art, New York Manufacturer: The Museum of Modern Art, New York Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 212 Publication Date: October 15, 2005 Publisher: The Museum of Modern Art, New York Release Date: October 15, 2005 Studio: The Museum of Modern Art, New York Related Items:
Browse for similar items by category: Click to Display Editorial Review: Product Description: 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 irrevocably if it followed Euclidean logic; instead; it constantly metamorphoses under stress. With a chaptered essay by Robert Storr, plate section, and in-depth interview, the book will explore Murray's relation to artists such as Joan MirA, Stuart Davis, Claes Oldenburg, and Frank Stella, as well as to the mainstream and opened up options for rising generations. This book accompanies the 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. Average Rating:
 Rating: - A Great (Woman) ArtistThe late Elizabeth Murray was a groundbreaking artist. Using the visual material of everyday life and experience, she crafted ever more ambitious paintings that leapt of the wall and into the viewers life. Art historian, curator, and painter Robert Storr is a long time champion of Murray's work, and he has lovingly assembled this comprehensive examination of her work on the occassion of her Museum of Modern Art survey exhibition. Often cited as making use of "the domestic," (as if we don't all live ... Read More 
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