Word: nevelson
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...York School, by his definition a stylistic rather than a geographic limitation, and focused on what he sees as the central figures in the international modernist tradition. Given this definition, however, it is hard to see why he left out such major artists as Naum Gabo, Louise Nevelson, Sam Francis, Mark Tobey, William Baziotes, Richard Lindner, Larry Rivers, Marisol and Lee Bontecou. Even so, with 406 works by 43 artists, Geldzahler has assembled the most exhaustive survey ever of the period...
...case for a U.S. monopoly on styles. The sprightly satires of Britons Richard Hamilton and David Hockney hang in the same gallery with their better-known U.S. pop equivalents, such as Tom Wesselmann and Robert Indiana. Indeed, it is Documenta's unity that last week prompted Sculptress Louise Nevelson to remark: "Usually an artist works in loneliness. But here, one suddenly experiences the kinship one always suspects one might have with the rest of the artistic world...
...gluepots. Claes Oldenburg's huge apartment is in a perpetual clutter because, as Nesbitt points out, "Claes likes to have a lot of things around so he can stumble over them. There is the same sense of unexpected confrontation here that there is in his work." Louise Nevelson's mammoth constructions emerge from a darkly mysterious, board-and box-crammed warren that, as Nesbitt observes reverently, "is an environmental experience in itself...
...Curiously enough, Nesbitt never shows any artist in his studio. Instead, he makes the room evoke its owner. He deliberately included the softness of a paper bag on Nevelson's workbench to emphasize the hardness of the wood blocks next to it, angled his view of Charles Hinman's loft so that its slanting half-opened window and rolls of drawing paper tilted against the wall suggest the dynamic diagonals that characterize the shaped canvases that Hinman produces. By simplifying textures and using a dreamily radiant color scheme, Nesbitt adds his personality to that of the resident. Says...
...sculptures. Iowa's Hans Breder structures plastic and chrome-plated cubes into flashing games of chance. Minnesota's Robert Israel inflated interest at Manhattan's Whitney Museum with an immense sausage-shaped bubble of clear vinyl that wallowed about an entire, blue-spotlit room. Even Louise Nevelson, the Marianne Moore of modern American sculpture, has won new fans with a current exhibit consisting of the famed Nevelson wall constructions done no longer in wood but in clear Plexiglas...