Description: A daring reassessment of Louise Nevelson, an icon of twentieth-century art whose innovative procedures relate to gendered, classed, and racialized forms of making
Review Quotes: "[Bryan-Wilson] shows why Nevelson's sculpture matters today, and that art history can be a tool for responding to what is happening now."--Sophie Oliver, Times Literary Supplement
"Here is a book that is not only a transformative study of a single artist but also a record of the scholar's own labor--and her devotion."--Artforum "The book is at once idiosyncratic, politically avant, and effortlessly, gracefully polyphonic. . . . A major book by a major art historian."--Jon Raymond, Literary Hub "Dense with insight. . . . The ingenious modular structure mirrors Nevelson's work visually and conceptually, allowing meaning to accrete through a non-hierarchical relationship of parts."--Brooklyn Rail "In making her case for the 'continuing relevance' of Nevelson's artwork, [Bryan-Wilson] makes one, too, for the work--the methods, the products, the labor--of a queered art history to meet the discipline's exclusionary, extractive history and the issues of its present."--Francesca Balboni, CAA Reviews "Bryan-Wilson paves new roads to better understand both Nevelson's [works] and the worlds they continue to inhabit since their inception."--Andrew Wang, ARLIS/NA Reviews "Boldly conceived, Julia Bryan-Wilson's far-reaching study gives us a multidirectional understanding of Louise Nevelson's intersectional abstraction that renders the artist strikingly contemporary."--Kobena Mercer, author of Travel & See: Black Diaspora Art Practices since the 1980s "Julia Bryan-Wilson's Louise Nevelson is exceptional in its innovative framing, physical structure, and above all, brilliantly original weaving of personal experience, material analysis, and art historical methodologies."--Jo Applin, author of Lee Lozano: Not Working "Bryan-Wilson brings world-class critical, feminist, and social-historical skills to bear on Nevelson's sculpture and public persona. The result is that we see Nevelson's radiant intelligence in a new light."--Richard Meyer, author of Master of the Two Left Feet: Morris Hirshfield Rediscovered "From the multicomponent design to the conceptual approaches therein, Bryan-Wilson has crafted an innovative and engaging look at Louise Nevelson. Further, she offers a queered, critical methodology that changes the game."--Bridget R. Cooks, author of Exhibiting Blackness: African Americans and the American Art Museum