Bruce Beasley

Sixty Year Retrospective, 1960-2020

Bruce Beasley, Tom Moran, Marlena Doktorczyk-Donohue, Lawrence Weschler (Autoren)

Buch | Hardcover

180 Seiten

2022
Scala Arts & Heritage Publishers Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-78551-401-2 (ISBN)

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This richly illustrated volume celebrates six decades of the sculptor Bruce Beasley’s works in a wide range of media and will serve as the definitive treatment of his distinguished career.

For six decades, sculptor Bruce Beasley has worked in a range of media to build complex, resonant sculptures that communicate the primacy of form and express the emotional language of shape. Bruce Beasley: Sixty Year Retrospective is an elegant survey of his illustrious career: from early experiments in scrap iron during the 1960s; aluminum works of the 1970s; cast acrylic sculptures of the 1970s and 80s; and stone, stainless steel and bronze works of the 1990s to the present day. The catalogue also features Beasley’s latest venture into two-dimensional media.

This richly illustrated book includes Beasley’s reflections on his career. In a conversation, Beasley and Lawrence Weschler discuss art and activism. Essays discussing his processes and appraising his impact are written by curator Tom Moran and Marlena Doktorczyk-Donohue, Director of the Bruce Beasley Foundation and Professor of Art History at Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles.

Bruce Beasley is a sculptor based in Oakland, California. Marlena Doktorczyk-Donohue is director of the Bruce Beasley Foundation. Tom Moran is the exhibition curator and former Chief Curator at Grounds For Sculpture in Hamilton, New Jersey. Lawrence Wechsler is the author of more than twenty works of creative nonfiction.

6 Director’s Foreword
7 Artist Acknowledgments
8 In Retrospect: The Artist in His Own Words
Bruce Beasley
14 Bruce Beasley: Innovation and the Primacy of Form
Tom Moran
24 Bruce Beasley: In Pursuit of Form
Marlena Doktorczyk-Donohue
30 But For Real: A Conversation with Bruce Beasley
on Art and Social Activism
Lawrence Weschler
38 Postscript: Tools, Techniques, and Media
and Their Validity in Creativity
Bruce Beasley
39 Sixty Year Retrospective
119 Other Notable Works
132 Sculptures in Response to the Virus
142 Chronology
161 Selected Collections, Exhibitions,
Awards and Prizes, and Public Commissions
170 Selected Bibliography
174 Checklist
176 Index
179 About the Contributors
180 About GFS

Erscheinungsdatum	15.03.2022
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	280 x 280 mm
Gewicht	1538 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Malerei / Plastik
ISBN-10	1-78551-401-6 / 1785514016
ISBN-13	978-1-78551-401-2 / 9781785514012
Zustand	Neuware