This book is the most comprehensive publication to date on the work of Elie Nadelman (1882-1946), an important sculptor and a key member of the New York art scene in the first half of the 20th century. Accompanying the first major retrospective of Nadelman's work since 1975, it brings his achievement to a new generation of art enthusiasts. Nadelman fused classical influences with the subject matter and imagery of popular culture. Using bronze, marble, wood, and plaster, he created stylized, curvilinear emblems of modern life whose formal motifs referenced both the antique and the modern. Here, Barbara Haskell presents a fully researched and broad-based examination of Nadelman's art by juxtaposing his elegant drawings with related sculptures, filling a gap in the literature on 20th-century American sculpture.
This book is the most comprehensive publication to date on the work of Elie Nadelman (1882-1946), an important sculptor and a key member of the New York art scene in the first half of the 20th century. Accompanying the first major retrospective of Nadelman's work since 1975, it brings his achievement to a new generation of art enthusiasts. Nadelman fused classical influences with the subject matter and imagery of popular culture. Using bronze, marble, wood, and plaster, he created stylized, curvilinear emblems of modern life whose formal motifs referenced both the antique and the modern. Here, Barbara Haskell presents a fully researched and broad-based examination of Nadelman's art by juxtaposing his elegant drawings with related sculptures, filling a gap in the literature on 20th-century American sculpture.
Exhibition at Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 27 Mar-20 Jul 2003
Barbara Haskell has been a curator at the Whitney Museum of American Art since 1975: she is now Curator of Early Twentieth Century Art. A well-known scholar on American art, she most recently curated Edward Steichen, as well as organized and wrote the book for Part One of the landmark exhibition, The American Century: Art & Culture 1900-2000. Ms. Haskell has written extensively on early 20th-century American modernists and has authored monographs on a range of artists including Marsden Hartley (1980), Milton Avery (1982), Ralston Crawford (1985), Charles Demuth (1987), Burgoyne Diller (1990) and Joseph Stella (1994). She has also organized exhibitions and written on contemporary art and artists, including Agnes Martin (1992), Donald Judd (1988) and BLAM! The Explosion of Pop, Minimalism and Performance 1958-1964 (1984).
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