Seymour Lipton: Aspects Of Sculpture

by Rand, Harry & Taylor, Joshua C

First Edition

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Book desription: Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1979. Has small cataloguing stickers along spine. Cover flat and intact. Pages clean, bright, and white. Filled with B&W photos and illustrations. Foreword by Joshua C. Taylor. With lengthy essay running throughout the book by Harry Rand. Includes bibliography and index. 1979 Catalogue to accompany the March 16 - May 6, 1979 exhibition. ABOUT THE ARTIST: Seymour Lipton became one of the proponents of the abstract expressionist movement after World War II. He became on of a group of American painters and sculptors who stretched their traditional boundaries, expressed their inner selves through the abstraction of their works and use of new methods and materials. Lipton received a DDS from Columbia University in 1927, but it was not until 1928-29 that he began to sculpt. Lipton, a self-taught artist, was profoundly affected by his concern for the masses of the Depression Era and the horrors of World War II. Eleanor Rait, curator of the Lipton retrospective exhibition at the Hofstra Museum in 1988, stated in her catalog, "In 1949 Seymour Lipton developed his own method of direct metal sculpture that would become the trademark of his later works. He cut and bent sheets of steel, and later monel metal (a white bronze alloy) and welded them together. Rods of bronze or nickel-silver were then melted with oxyacetylene heat, thereby adding strength, textural interest and color...." . First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8.5" x 10.25". Exhibition Catalog. Metal steele Abstract Expressionist Sculpture.

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