fb pixcode

PUBLISHER
The Museum of Modern Art, New York

BOOK FORMAT
Clothbound, 9.5 x 12 in. / 192 pgs / 130 color.

PUBLISHING STATUS
Pub Date
Out of stock indefinitely

DISTRIBUTION
D.A.P. Exclusive
Catalog: FALL 2007 p. 18   

PRODUCT DETAILS
ISBN 9780870707148 TRADE
List Price: $60.00 CDN $79.00

AVAILABILITY
Not available

TERRITORY
NA ONLY

EXHIBITION SCHEDULE

New York
The Museum of Modern Art, 11/04/07-01/14/08

Fort Worth
The Modern, 02/18/08-05/18/08

Washington, D.C.
National Gallery of Art, 06/22/08-09/28/08

San Francisco
Museum of Modern Art, 10/28/08-01/25/09

THE SPRING 2024 ARTBOOK | D.A.P. CATALOG

Artbook | D.A.P. Catalog Cover Link
Preview our Spring 2024 catalog, featuring more than 500 new books on art, photography, design, architecture, film, music and visual culture.
  

THE MUSEUM OF MODERN ART, NEW YORK

Martin Puryear

Text by John Elderfield, Elizabeth Reede, Richard Powell, Michael Auping.

Over the last 30 years, Martin Puryear has created a body of work that defies categorization, creating sculpture that examines identity, culture and history. Departing from the impersonal and machined aesthetic of Minimalism, Puryear's work combines Modernist abstraction with the traditions of crafts and woodworking, in shapes informed by the natural and by ordinary objects, made with materials such as tar, wood, stone and wire. It is quiet but deliberately associative, encompassing wide-reaching cultural and intellectual experiences and drawing on a huge and varied reserve of images, ideas and information. As a high school and college student, the artist studied ornithology, falconry and archery, and in the 1960s he volunteered with the Peace Corps in Sierra Leone, where he schooled himself in the region's indigenous crafts; these are only a few of the influences and methods that have embedded themselves in his work. And the sources of his works are no less varied than the possible and open-ended interpretations: "I think there are a number of levels at which my work can be dealt with and appreciated," Puryear said in a 1978 interview. "It gives me pleasure to feel there's a level that doesn't require knowledge of, or immersion in, the aesthetic of a given time or place."
This volume is published on the occasion of the artist's Fall 2007 exhibition at The Museum of Modern Art, which travels from New York to Fort Worth, Washington, D.C. and San Francisco. It follows Puryear's development from his first solo show in 1977 to new works that are presented here for the first time and contains essays by John Elderfield, Michael Auping and Elizabeth Reede, and a conversation with the artist by Richard Powell.
Martin Puryear

STATUS: Out of stock indefinitely.

OF RELATED INTEREST

Plane Image: A Brice Marden Retrospective

PLANE IMAGE: A BRICE MARDEN RETROSPECTIVE

The Museum of Modern Art, New York

ISBN: 9780870704468
USD $65.00
| CAN $75

Pub Date: 10/15/2006
Out of stock indefinitely | Not available


Donald Judd

DONALD JUDD

D.A.P./Tate

ISBN: 9781891024894
USD $65.00
| CAN $75

Pub Date: 3/2/2004
Out of print | Not available


MARTIN PURYEAR MONOGRAPHS + ARTIST'S BOOKS

Martin Puryear: Lookout

MARTIN PURYEAR: LOOKOUT

Gregory R. Miller & Co./Storm King Art Center

ISBN: 9781941366646
USD $50.00
| CAN $72 UK £ 44

Pub Date: 6/25/2024
Forthcoming