Text by Anna Lovatt, Jane McFadden, Nancy Princenthal. Interview by Julie Joyce.
Since the late sixties, American artist Michelle Stuart (born 1938) has become internationally known and respected for a rich and diverse body of work based on her lifelong interest in the natural world and the cosmos. Her multifaceted creativity and broad range of inspirations have led to her working in fields as diverse as drawing, sculpture, photography, video, installation and site-specific earthworks. Throughout her career, she has pursued a subtle and responsive dialogue with the natural world quite unlike the epic, at times seemingly grandiose, gestures of much contemporary Land Art. During the seventies she became associated with the feminist art movement, co-founding the journal Heresies with Lucy Lippard. Along with wide-ranging insights into Stuart’s choice of media and subject matter, this book emphasizes Stuart’s radical redefinition of the medium of drawing.
PRAISE AND REVIEWS
The Brooklyn Rail
Anne McCoy
A catalogue/book accompanying Drawn from Nature has some excellent essays and interviews by Nancy Princenthal, Anna Lovatt, Julie Joyce, and others. Last, but not least, in 2011, Michelle Stuart: Sculptural Objects: Journeys In & Out of the Studio was published. I love the book because it gives us your notations on the pieces along with the photo documentation. The introductory essay by Lucy Lippard is a great piece of writing, she was a champion of your work before Overlay.The book reads like a diary.
FORMAT: Hbk, 9 x 11.5 in. / 160 pgs / 130 color. LIST PRICE: U.S. $60.00 LIST PRICE: CANADA $79 ISBN: 9783775735490 PUBLISHER: Hatje Cantz AVAILABLE: 8/31/2013 DISTRIBUTION: D.A.P. RETAILER DISC: TRADE PUBLISHING STATUS: Out of stock indefinitely AVAILABILITY: Not available TERRITORY: NA LA
Published by Hatje Cantz. Text by Anna Lovatt, Jane McFadden, Nancy Princenthal. Interview by Julie Joyce.
Since the late sixties, American artist Michelle Stuart (born 1938) has become internationally known and respected for a rich and diverse body of work based on her lifelong interest in the natural world and the cosmos. Her multifaceted creativity and broad range of inspirations have led to her working in fields as diverse as drawing, sculpture, photography, video, installation and site-specific earthworks. Throughout her career, she has pursued a subtle and responsive dialogue with the natural world quite unlike the epic, at times seemingly grandiose, gestures of much contemporary Land Art. During the seventies she became associated with the feminist art movement, co-founding the journal Heresies with Lucy Lippard. Along with wide-ranging insights into Stuart’s choice of media and subject matter, this book emphasizes Stuart’s radical redefinition of the medium of drawing.
