• Joel Shapiro Sculpture and Works on Paper 1969-2019. The cover is white with an image of a yellow, green, red, and blue wooden sculpture on it.
  • The book is open to two pages with an installation view of a Shapiro work in New York City across. There is a description of the work in black text on the far right side of the pages.
  • The book is open to two pages with an installation view of a Shapiro exhibition across both pages.
  • The book is open to two pages. The left has an image of a Shapiro work and the left has an essay in black text.
  • Joel Shapiro Sculpture and Works on Paper 1969-2019. The cover is white with an image of a yellow, green, red, and blue wooden sculpture on it.
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Joel Shapiro: Sculpture and Works on Paper 1969-2019

$85.00
$85.00

Joel Shapiro: Sculpture and Works on Paper 1969–2019 is the first book in more than twenty years to survey the artist’s entire working career. In an extensive essay, art historian Richard Shiff provides a fresh and incisive examination of Shapiro’s oeuvre and working process, illuminating the factors and forces that allow his work to remain ever in flux and unpredictable, cohesive and yet multifarious. With more than two hundred striking full-color illustrations, this is a long-anticipated and much-needed survey of this vital and essential American artist.

Publication details

Contributor: Richard Shiff
Publisher: Scheidegger & Spiess
Publication date: 2019
Hardcover
240 pages: 300+ color illustrations
11 ⅞ × 9 ½ inches
ISBN: 9783858818294
Joel Shapiro Sculpture and Works on Paper 1969-2019. The cover is white with an image of a yellow, green, red, and blue wooden sculpture on it.
The book is open to two pages with an installation view of a Shapiro work in New York City across. There is a description of the work in black text on the far right side of the pages.
The book is open to two pages with an installation view of a Shapiro exhibition across both pages.
The book is open to two pages. The left has an image of a Shapiro work and the left has an essay in black text.
Joel Shapiro Sculpture and Works on Paper 1969-2019. The cover is white with an image of a yellow, green, red, and blue wooden sculpture on it.

Joel Shapiro

Subverting the distinctions between abstraction and representation, Joel Shapiro reconsiders the modern figurative tradition. Shapiro creates abstract geometric sculpture that elicits a sense of movement and engages viewers’ physical and psychological relationships with space.

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