Betty Woodman
New York: Monacelli Press, 2006. 1st Edition. Oblong quarto, publisher's photo-illustrated paper-covered foam-padded boards, photo-illustrated endpapers.
First edition monograph on pioneering ceramic artist Betty Woodman published in conjunction with a major exhibition of her work at the Met in 2006. Beginning as a utilitarian potter in the 1950s, Woodman abandoned functionality to pursue more colorfully exuberant pieces, including ceramic sculptures inspired by the Pattern and Decoration movement and a diverse range of art historical references. Her major exhibition at the Met, notably the first time the museum gave a solo retrospective to a living woman artist, featured seventy works spanning the entirety of her career, including early utilitarian pottery, large multipiece vessel groups, wall installations, paintings, and drawings. The exhibition additionally commissioned five custom-made urns which temporarily replaced the grand urns holding the floral arrangements in the Met's Great Hall. Illustrated with color plates and some black-and-white photos; with a foreword by curator Jane Adlin and scholarly essays by Barry Schwabsky, Janet Koplos, and Arthur Danto, and biography, exhibition history, and selected bibliography. No dust jacket as issued. Fine. Item #12903
$200.00