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Michelle Stuart: Sculptural Objects: Journeys In & Out of the Studio
Michelle Stuart Sculptural Objects Journeys In Out of the Studio Author:Lucy Lippard, Michelle Stuart The "sculptural objects" of American artist Michelle Stuart (born 1938) merge a postminimalist vocabulary of seriality and industrial gray/brown color palette with a Beuysian affection for artifact, worn surface and auratic glow. From large-scale environmental works to intimate rubbings of soil on paper and drawings with beeswax, string and pigm... more »ents, her work expresses an archeological and biological timescale, as well as feminist concerns (Stuart was one of the founders of the iconic feminist journal Heresies). Some of her best-known works are from the Rock Books series: journals battered with soil accumulated during the artist's travels. Sculptural Objects focuses on Stuart's installations and small sculptures and includes a selection of journal entries--described in The New York Times as "eloquent, plain-spoken" --that recount the origins of certain pieces and elaborate on her ideas and reading matter. The volume opens with a critical appreciation by Lucy Lippard.« less