Martin Puryear

by John Elderfield, Michael Auping, Richard J. Powell, et al.

Over the last 30 years, Martin Puryear has created a body of work that defies categorization, creating sculpture that examines identity, culture and history. Departing from the impersonal and machined aesthetic of Minimalism, Puryear's work combines Modernist abstraction with the traditions of crafts and woodworking, in shapes informed by the natural and by ordinary objects, made with materials such as tar, wood, stone and wire. It is quiet but deliberately...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0870707140
• ISBN13: 9780870707148
• Release Date: November 2007
• Publisher: Museum of Modern Art
• Length: 215 Pages
• Weight: 3.56 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 9.8" x 12.3"