Martin Puryear : Liberty = Libertà /

Martin Puryear : Liberty = Libertà /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Puryear, Martin, 1941- artist.
Imprint:	New York, NY : Gregory R. Miller & Company 2019.
Description:	191 pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	Puryear, Martin, -- 1941- -- Exhibitions. Puryear, Martin, -- 1941- -- Criticism and interpretation. Puryear, Martin, -- 1941- African American sculptors -- Exhibitions. Sculpture, American -- Exhibitions.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11949231

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Varying Form of Title:	Liberty = Libertà Libertà
Other authors / contributors:	Rapaport, Brooke Kamin, curator. Wagner, Anne Middleton, 1949- author. Haslett, Tobi, author. English, Darby, 1974- author. International Art Exhibition (58th : 2019 : Venice, Italy) Madison Square Park Conservancy (New York, N.Y.) Biennale di Venezia (58th : 2019 : Venice, Italy)
ISBN:	9781941366240 1941366244
Notes:	Exhibition: US Pavilion, Venice Biennale, Italy (21.06.-30.06.2019). Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:	Accompanying the landmark exhibition by renowned Hudson Valley based artist Martin Puryear (born 1941), who is representing the United States at the 58th Venice Biennale, this book captures a high point in the career of one of today's most acclaimed artists. In addition to extensive illustrations of new sculptures made for the Biennale, including a significant site-specific work, the book features major texts by Brooke Kamin Rapaport, Darby English and Anne Wagner. The works and essays demonstrate Puryear's powerful, original and influential engagement with art history and social history on both a personal level, as an African American artist, and universally. With a definitive illustrated chronology of the artist's career over the last fifty years, 'Martin Puryear: Liberty / Libertà' is an essential look at one of the most important artists today, who continues to work at the height of his powers.

Table of Contents:

Preface
Martin Puryear: Liberty/Libertà / Brooke Kamin Rapaport
The dome as fact and façade / Darby English
The self in sculpture / Anne M. Wagner
Two revolutions / Tobi Haslett
Catalogue
Exhibition installation
Works in the exhibition
Chronology / Julia Friedman
Exhibition history
Selected bibliography
Contributors
Index.