Melvin Edwards: Five Decades

by Alex Potts and Tobias Wofford

Over the past five decades, New York-based sculptor Melvin Edwards (born 1937) has produced a remarkable body of work redefining the modernist tradition of welded sculpture. Working primarily in welded steel, Edwards is perhaps best known for his Lynch Fragments , small-scale reliefs born of the turmoil of the Civil Rights Movement. Beyond the Lynch Fragments , Edwards' oeuvre encompasses larger sculptures, installations, public projects, drawings,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0991233832
• ISBN13: 9780991233830
• Release Date: June 2015
• Publisher: Nasher Sculpture Center
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 3.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 10.3" x 12.3"