Natural Forms and Forces : Abstract Images in American Sculpture

Kline, Katy; Dreishpoon, Douglas. Natural Forms and Forces : Abstract Images in American Sculpture. Cambridge, MA: MIT Committee on the Visual Arts, 1986.

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Abstract (English)

In this exhibition catalogue of works by 16 American sculptors, Dreishpoon inquires into the degree of influence of natural forms on abstract sculpture. Kline contributes a short essay positing Brancusi as an important harbinger of abstract sculptural form, but also with natural influences. Biographical notes. 22 bibl. ref.

Types: Catalogues > Exhibition catalogues
All Contributors: Kline, Katy (Curator); Kline, Katy (Author); Dreishpoon, Douglas (Author); Jacobson, Marjory (Prefacer); Halbreich, Kathy (Prefacer); Brown, William L. (Prefacer)
Dossier: 360 - M.I.T. LIST VISUAL ARTS CENTER (Cambridge, MA)
Collation: 68 p. : 45 ill. ; 28 x 22 cm
ISBN: 0938437143
Language of Publication: English
Publishers: Cambridge, MA: MIT Committee on the Visual Arts
Artists: Hesse, Eva; Lekakis, Michael; Roszak, Theodore; Smithson, Robert; Vollmer, Ruth; Benglis, Lynda; Duff, John; Graves, Nancy; Kelly, Ellsworth; Newman, John; Puryear, Martin; Saret, Alan; Serra, Richard; Stone, Alan
Critics / Curators / Historians: Kline, Katie
Art Organizations: Exhibition Centres > United States > M.i.t. List Visual Arts Center (Cambridge, MA)
Event Statement: Exhibition organized by the MIT Committee on the Visual Arts Planning Group of Boston. - Exhibition dates: "Precedents": 9 May - 29 June 1986, Bakalas Sculpture Gallery, MIT List Visual Arts Center ; "Contemporary Explorations": 9 May - 29 June 1986, MIT List Visual Arts Center, Hayden Gallery, Reference Gallery (Cambridge) ; 9 May - 11 July 1986, Bank of Boston.
Keywords: BRANCUSI, CONSTANTIN; LAURENT, ROBERT; WEBER, MAX
Notes:

Gift of Claude Gosselin.

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Date Deposited: 23 Aug 1994
Last Modified: 25 Oct 2012 13:44
URI: http://e-artexte.ca/id/eprint/7315
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