
Inspired Encounters
Women Artists and the Legacies of Modern Art
Dancing Foxes Press
Published on 23. November 2023
Book
Paperback/Softback
160 pages
978-1-954947-07-8 (ISBN)
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A critical reappraisal of a classic collection's modernist legacy for women artists
Taking as its point of departure the art collection at Kykuit-the former home of the Rockefeller family, now a museum-Inspired Encounters asks: if exclusively women-identifying artists remained in this legendary modernist collection, what would be revealed? Essentially the product of three people whose lives intertwined around MoMA-Alfred H. Barr Jr., Dorothy Canning Miller and Nelson A. Rockefeller-Kykuit's holdings include work by Anni Albers, Mary Bauermeister, Lee Bontecou, Mary Callery, Valerie Clarebout, Dorothy Dehner, Grace Hartigan, Louise Kruger, Marisol, Louise Nevelson and Lenore Tawney. The book augments this group with works by Louise Bourgeois, Elizabeth Catlett, Lin Emery and Fanny Sanin to expand the possibilities of a "closed" collection. Commissioned works by Sonya Clark, Maren Hassinger, Elana Herzog, Melissa Meyer, Barbara Takenaga and Kay WalkingStick reflect on the collection.
Taking as its point of departure the art collection at Kykuit-the former home of the Rockefeller family, now a museum-Inspired Encounters asks: if exclusively women-identifying artists remained in this legendary modernist collection, what would be revealed? Essentially the product of three people whose lives intertwined around MoMA-Alfred H. Barr Jr., Dorothy Canning Miller and Nelson A. Rockefeller-Kykuit's holdings include work by Anni Albers, Mary Bauermeister, Lee Bontecou, Mary Callery, Valerie Clarebout, Dorothy Dehner, Grace Hartigan, Louise Kruger, Marisol, Louise Nevelson and Lenore Tawney. The book augments this group with works by Louise Bourgeois, Elizabeth Catlett, Lin Emery and Fanny Sanin to expand the possibilities of a "closed" collection. Commissioned works by Sonya Clark, Maren Hassinger, Elana Herzog, Melissa Meyer, Barbara Takenaga and Kay WalkingStick reflect on the collection.
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Language
English
Place of publication
NY
United States
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Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
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140 Illustrations
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Height: 216 mm
Width: 160 mm
Thickness: 16 mm
Weight
452 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-954947-07-8 (9781954947078)
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