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Martin Puryear

Hardcover • 2007 • English

Martin Puryear

By John Elderfield, Elizabeth Reede, Richard Powell, Michael Auping

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About the book

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-reachin...Show more

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ISBN

9780870707148

Publisher

The Museum of Modern Art, New York

Published year

2007

Language

English

Original title

Martin Puryear

Format

Hardcover

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