Elizabeth Murray

by Elizabeth Murray

Book Overview

Elizabeth Murray has radically altered the structure of Modernist painting. Her shaped and constructed canvases, often topologically modeled in three dimensions or fitted together out of multiple jigsaw-like parts, treat figure and ground in unprecedented ways, giving the elastic shapes of classic Surrealism a space in their own image. The alternatively comfortable and cataclysmic world that her images depict would crack irrevocably if it followed...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0870704931
• ISBN13: 9780870704932
• Release Date: October 2005
• Publisher: Museum of Modern Art
• Length: 212 Pages
• Weight: 3.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 9.8" x 11.2"