Catherine Quan Damman on Julia Bryan-Wilson's Louise Nevelson's Sculpture

Louise Nevelson’s Sculpture: Drag, Color, Join, Face, by Julia Bryan-Wilson, New Haven: Yale University Press, 2023. 352 pages.THE ICONIC LOUISE NEVELSON sculpture would appear straightforward to summarize: monochrome, modular, monumental. In general, such qualities—and to them we might add wooden, assemblage, usually black, comprising found objects—indicate an artist singularly absorbed, working through a set of formal propositions over a career, pursuing the archetypal enterprise of the modernist master. In particular, though, up close and personal, Nevelson’s sculptures are, well, defiantly

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