Elizabeth Murray has radically altered the structure of modernist painting. Her shaped and constructed canvases, often topologically modeled in three dimensions or fitted together out of multiple jigsaw-like parts, treat figure and ground in unprecedented ways, giving the elastic shapes of classic Surrealism a space in their own image. The alternatively comfortable and cataclysmic world that her images depict would crack irrevocably if it followed Euclidean logic; instead; it constantly metamorphoses under stress. With a chaptered essay by Robert Storr, plate section, and in-depth interview, the book will explore Murray's relation to artists such as Joan Miró, Stuart Davis, Claes Oldenburg, and Frank Stella, as well as to the mainstream and opened up options for rising generations. This book accompanies the most detailed examination of Murray's art yet mounted, showing its development from Pop-oriented reliefs in the 1960s to the extraordinary volumetric of her recent work. From beneath the sheen of insouciance, an anxiety somehow creeps out, the cheeriness and familiarity of her cartoony formal language only making its contradictions more emphatic. Everything is both fluid and strained, with meaning always just out of reach, perpetually made to slip through one's fingers. Cary Levine, Art in America Essay by Robert Storr. Hardcover, 9.5 x 11 in./200 pgs / 175 color.
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