Bella
Fresno, California: Fresno Art Museum, 1996. First edition. Hardcover. Folio,Original bare bords with black cloth spine as issued. Impression of the title in an elipse on front cover, silver lettering on spine. 90 pp. Illustrated throughout from cover to cover with b/w and color facsimile photographs of the work of Bella Feldman, an exceptional artist who, “makes extraordinary objects-objects that rivet your attention by their physical appearance; the weight, mass, volume, material, posture, balance, and motion immediately access a bodily response. Then your mind, your sense of poetry, human imagination, and memory tune in and hold you there. Bella's works are intended to keep and enlarge their meaning over time; their layered imageries shift and evolve with the viewer's own moods and experiences. The materials for her sculptures are chosen not only for structural reasons but also for the references they embody. Although the objects are beautiful, they contain an element of threat and of irony. They are what the critic Harold Rosenberg aptly called 'anxious objects.' They are made in anxious times.” Book is in near fine condition. vg. Item #20234
Price: $125.00