Christopher Wilmarth

Light and Gravity

Steven Henry Madoff (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

208 Seiten

2004
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-11359-3 (ISBN)

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Christopher Wilmarth delighted the world with light-filled sculptures of glass and steel that were deeply poetic in their moods and extraordinarily rich in their modernist heritage. But in 1987, at the peak of his career, a long struggle with depression ended tragically for Wilmarth. The internationally acclaimed artist committed suicide at age 44, and his work largely fell from the public view. Now, Wilmarth's legacy is recaptured in this beautifully written, richly illustrated book by art critic, historian, and poet Steven Henry Madoff. The first in-depth look at Wilmarth's extraordinary life as an artist, the book explores both the light and the darkness that underlie his work. Madoff offers a critical overview of the artist's career, examining the sculptor's response not only to historical masters such as Cezanne, Brancusi, Matisse, and Giacometti, but also to the art world of his times--particularly the dominant influence of Minimalism. Using the newly created Wilmarth archive at Harvard University's Fogg Art Museum, Madoff anchors this moving interpretation with the sculptor's own writings unearthed from journals, student notebooks, artist sketchbooks, and letters.
Madoff draws as well from interviews, articles, and poems that Wilmarth published in his lifetime, along with the body of criticism covering Wilmarth's development over the years. Acclaimed biographer Nancy Milford contributes a poignant memoir of her years of friendship with the artist, and Fogg associate curator Edward Saywell offers a powerful selection of Wilmarth's writings. The sculptor's romantic outlook, his gorgeously light-infused art, and his dramatic decline into work of harrowing darkness are sensitively examined in a book that reintroduces Christopher Wilmarth's sculptures and graphics to the contemporary art audience.

Steven Henry Madoff is a former Executive Editor of "Artnews" and is currently a contributing editor to the magazine. His writings have appeared in all of the major American art magazines, as well as the "New York Times", "Time", and other publications. He is the editor of "Pop Art: A Critical History" and coauthor of "Rebecca Horn: Moon Mirror". Nancy Milford is the author of "Zelda: A Biography" and "Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay". Edward Saywell is Curatorial Associate in the Department of Drawings at the Fogg Art Museum. He has published "Christopher Wilmarth: Drawing into Sculpture".

Light and Gravity: The Art and Times of Christopher Wilmarth by Steven Henry Madoff 7 Ray by Nancy Milford 123 A Place for Reflection: Writings by Willmarth by Edward Saywell 133 Writings by Christopher Wilmarth 139 Chronology 159 Exhibitions 166 Bibliography 172 Index 179

Erscheint lt. Verlag	19.9.2004
Co-Autor	Nancy Milford, Edward Saywell
Zusatzinfo	121 color plates. 30 halftones.
Verlagsort	New Jersey
Sprache	englisch
Maße	254 x 279 mm
Gewicht	1474 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Malerei / Plastik
ISBN-10	0-691-11359-9 / 0691113599
ISBN-13	978-0-691-11359-3 / 9780691113593
Zustand	Neuware