Adaline Kent : the click of authenticity / edited by Apsara DiQuinzio ; contributions by Jeff Gunderson, Adaline Kent, Grace McCann Morley, Alexander Nemerov, and Elaine Y. Yau.
Publisher:
Rizzoli ElectaA Division of Rizzoli International Publishers, Inc. ;
Director's foreword / David B. Walker -- Classic romantic mystic : mind, heart, and soul / Adaline Kent -- "Infinity for everyone" : nature, abstraction, and time in the work of Adaline Kent / Apsara DiQuinzio -- The song of Adaline Kent / Alexander Nemerov -- Adaline Kent's communities and comraderies, 1920s-1950s / Jeff Gunderson -- Thematic essays / Elaine Y. Yau -- Director's foreword, 1958 / Grace McCann Morley -- On contemporary sculpture / Adaline Kent -- Chronology / Elaine Y. Yau.
Summary:
"The first major monograph in sixty years on the San Francisco modernist sculptor who developed a unique abstract style rooted in surrealism and inspired by nature. A member of one of the Bay Area's most productive and innovative midcentury artistic groups. Texts by a diverse range of scholars cover such subjects as infinity and movement in Kent's work; the influence of nature; and the diverse artistic milieu at the San Francisco Art Institute and beyond that surrounded Kent and her husband, artist Robert Howard. With an extensive chronology and a wide selection of sculptures, photographs, and rarely seen works on paper and paintings on Hydrocal, the book substantiates Kent's achievement as one of midcentury America's most innovative sculptors, re-excavating her work for younger generations"--publisher's description.
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