Michael Brenson

David Smith (eBook, ePUB)

The Art and Life of a Transformational Sculptor

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The definitive biography of David Smith, the trailblazing American sculptor who pioneered Abstract Expressionism in three dimensions.

"An essential account of America's greatest sculptor . . . [A] magnum opus." -Marjorie Perloff, The Times Literary Supplement

David Smith: The Art and Life of a Transformational Sculptor is the first comprehensive biography of the visionary artist who revolutionized American sculpture. Michael Brenson traces Smith's journey from his Midwestern roots to his groundbreaking early years in Manhattan and his permanent studio in upstate New York, where he created iconic works like the Cubis, Tanktotems, and Zigs.

Brenson explores Smith's complex personal life, marked by deep friendships with fellow artists like Helen Frankenthaler and Robert Motherwell, as well as marriages, divorces, and fallings-out. He delves into the enormous, contradictory vitality that defined both Smith and his work, capturing the essence of an artist who entranced critics and admirers wherever he exhibited.

A master welder, painter, photographer, and writer, Smith challenged the stability of identity and position in his art, seeking out the unbounded, unbalanced, and unexpected. By age forty, he had already earned the accolade of "the greatest sculptor this country has produced" from influential critic Clement Greenberg.

With this definitive biography, Brenson confirms Smith's singular place in the history of American art and introduces his transformative vision to a new generation.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
• Seitenzahl: 864
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Oktober 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780374604035
• Artikelnr.: 63159007

Autorenporträt

Michael Brenson was for two decades a member of the sculpture faculty at Bard College's Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts and he is the author of Visionaries and Outcasts: The NEA, Congress, and the Place of the Visual Artist in America. A former art critic for The New York Times and an eloquent voice on modern and contemporary sculpture, Brenson has been a Getty Scholar, a Bogliasco Fellow, a Clark Fellow, and a Guggenheim Fellow, and he was awarded a Creative Nonfiction Grant from the Whiting Foundation. He has curated exhibitions at MoMA PS1 and the Sculpture Center, and has organized and moderated conferences or panels at the National Gallery of Art, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, the Rockefeller Foundation, and New York's Jewish Museum. He lives in Accord, New York.