Harry Bertoia: Sculpting Mid-Century Modern Life
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Harry Bertoia: Sculpting Mid-Century Modern Life
W022324 | $59.00
Exhibition Catalog
Jed Morse et al. Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas, 2022. Published in association with Scheidegger & Spiess, Zurich.
224 pp. Well illustrated (chiefly col.). 29 x 25 cm. In English. Hardcover.
ISBN 9783858818621
Italian-born American Harry Bertoia (1915-78) was one of the most prolific and innovative artists and designers of the postwar period. Trained at the Cranbrook Academy of Art, where he met future colleagues and collaborators, such as Charles and Ray Eames, Florence Knoll, and Eero Saarinen, he went on to make one-of-a kind jewelry, design iconic chairs, create thousands of unique sculptures including large-scale commissions for significant buildings, and advance the use of sound as sculptural material. His work speaks to the confluence of numerous fields of endeavor but is united throughout by a sculptural approach to making and an experimental embrace of metal. Harry Bertoia: Sculpting Mid-Century Modern Life accompanies the first US museum retrospective of the artist’s career to examine the full scope of his broad, interdisciplinary practice and feature important examples of his furniture, jewelry, monotypes, and diverse sculptural output. Lavishly illustrated, the book offers new scholarly essays as well as a catalog of the artist’s numerous large-scale commissions. It questions how and why we distinguish between a chair, a necklace, a screen, and a freestanding sculpture -- and what Bertoia’s sculptural things, when taken together, say about the fluidity of visual language across culture, both at midcentury and now.
Subject Headings: Western Art -- United States -- Post-1945 -- Sculpture ; Several Fine Arts Media (Western) -- Decorative Arts and Design --
Artist(s): Bertoia, Harry
W022324 | $59.00
Exhibition Catalog
Jed Morse et al. Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas, 2022. Published in association with Scheidegger & Spiess, Zurich.
224 pp. Well illustrated (chiefly col.). 29 x 25 cm. In English. Hardcover.
ISBN 9783858818621
Italian-born American Harry Bertoia (1915-78) was one of the most prolific and innovative artists and designers of the postwar period. Trained at the Cranbrook Academy of Art, where he met future colleagues and collaborators, such as Charles and Ray Eames, Florence Knoll, and Eero Saarinen, he went on to make one-of-a kind jewelry, design iconic chairs, create thousands of unique sculptures including large-scale commissions for significant buildings, and advance the use of sound as sculptural material. His work speaks to the confluence of numerous fields of endeavor but is united throughout by a sculptural approach to making and an experimental embrace of metal. Harry Bertoia: Sculpting Mid-Century Modern Life accompanies the first US museum retrospective of the artist’s career to examine the full scope of his broad, interdisciplinary practice and feature important examples of his furniture, jewelry, monotypes, and diverse sculptural output. Lavishly illustrated, the book offers new scholarly essays as well as a catalog of the artist’s numerous large-scale commissions. It questions how and why we distinguish between a chair, a necklace, a screen, and a freestanding sculpture -- and what Bertoia’s sculptural things, when taken together, say about the fluidity of visual language across culture, both at midcentury and now.
Subject Headings: Western Art -- United States -- Post-1945 -- Sculpture ; Several Fine Arts Media (Western) -- Decorative Arts and Design --
Artist(s): Bertoia, Harry
