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Martin Puryear

By John Elderfield, Michael Auping, Elizabeth Reede, Richard J. Powell, and Jennifer Field

Over the last 30 years, Martin Puryear has created a body of work that defies categorization, creating sculpture that examines identity, culture and history. This book accompanies an exhibition at The Museum of Modern Art that follows Puryear's development from his first solo show, in 1977, to new works that will be presented for the first time.

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 world and by ordinary objects, made with materials such as tar, wood, stone and wire. It is quiet but deliberately associative, encompassing wide-reaching cultural and intellectual experiences and drawing on a huge and varied reserve of images, ideas and information. Includes 165 color illustrations.

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