Main entry:

Krauss, Rosalind E., author.

Title & Author:

Beverly Pepper : Sculpture in Place / by Rosalind E. Krauss ; with an introduction by Douglas G. Schultz.

Edition:

1st ed.

Publication:

Description:

179 pages : chiefly illustrations (some color) ; 31 cm

Notes:
Published in conjunction with an exhibition held at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Sept. 13-Nov. 2, 1986 and other museums from Dec. 11, 1986-Nov. 1, 1987.
Exhibition held at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Sept. 13-Nov. 2, 1986, and elsewhere.
Includes index.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 170-171) and index.
[Table of Contents] -- Preface / Douglas G. Schultz -- Introduction / Douglas G. Schultz -- Beverly Pepper in Sun and Shade -- Chronology, Exhibitions, Awards, Grants, Commissions, Installations, and Collections -- Bibliography -- Acknowledgments -- List of Works Illustrated -- Index.
Published in conjunction with the exhibition "Beverly Pepper: sculpture in place", September 1986 - November 1986, organized by Douglas G. Schultz, Director of the Albright-Knox Art Gallery.

Summary:

"The places of Beverly Pepper's career range from Brooklyn, to Angkor Wat, Cambodia, to Umbrian Italy. Trained at Pratt Institute, Art Students League, and the Académie de la Grande Chaumiere, and a student of André Lhote and Fernand Léger, she committed herself to a life as a painter. In the course of a worldwide journey in 1960, Pepper came to the medieval temple complex of Angkor Wat. There, amid jungle growth and sacred Khmer statuary, she suffered a conversion - not to Buddhism, but to the art of sculpture. Beverly Pepper: Sculpture in Place surveys the artist's remarkable career, from the time she "walked into Angkor Wat a painter and...left a sculptor" to the present. It si a career of marvelous conversions and stunning changes: from expressive wood carvings, to works that embody carved wood and cast metal elements, to large-scale foundry sculpture. Two years after Angkor Wat, her reputation as a sculptor was already so solid that, in company with such luminaries as Alexander Calder and David Smith, she was commissioned to create monumental works for the Festival dei due mondi in Spoleto, Italy. In the 1960s Pepper worked with Cor-Ten steel, then with stainless, and with stainless variously painted. Into the 1970s she created serene earthbound sculptures and massive cantilevered works. She also began to explore the possibilities of combining tough abstraction with mythically evocative primal forms that have culminated in a series of "totemic" pieces and "urban altars." In addition to her abstract, heroic, and mythic cast and welded sculpture, Pepper has fashioned art of concrete, basalt, the sandscape of a Florida beach, and the earth itself. Protean among contemporary sculptors, Beverly Pepper defies categorization. Nevertheless, the critical challenge of her Oeuvre is brilliantly met here by Rosalind E. Krauss, whose personal and intensely imaginative essay illuminates the historical, aesthetic, and biographical contexts of a quarter-century of exciting art."

ISBN:

0896596710 (paperback)
9780896596719 (paperback)
0896596672 (hardback)
9780896596672 (hardback)

Subject:

Pepper, Beverly Exhibitions.
Pepper, Beverly.
Pepper, Beverly 20e siècle Expositions.
Sculpture, American 20th century Exhibitions.
Buffalo, Albright-Knox art gallery Expositions 1986.
Buffalo Expositions 1986.
San Francisco, San Francisco museum of modern art Expositions 1986.
San Francisco Expositions 1986.
Columbus, Columbus museum of art Expositions 1987.
Columbus Expositions 1987.
Brooklyn, Brooklyn museum Expositions 1987.
Brooklyn Expositions 1987.
Sculpture, American
Plastische kunst.

Form/genre:

exhibition catalogs.
Exhibition catalogs
Catalogues d'exposition.

Added entries:

Pepper, Beverly.
Schultz, Douglas G., 1947- writer of introduction.
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, host institution.
Albright-Knox Art Gallery

Holdings:

Location: Library main 13115
Call No.: ID EXHBUFFALO; ID:87-B3624
Status: Available