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Mary Corse: A Survey in Light

by Kim Conaty
Mary Corse: A Survey in Light

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ISBN13: 9780300234978
ISBN10: 030023497X



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Initially trained as an abstract painter, Mary Corse (b. 1945) emerged in the mid-1960s as one of the few women associated with the California Light and Space movement. This catalogue is the first comprehensive examination of this singular artist's work, and features new scholarship and object studies that underscore how Corse's groundbreaking approach to light, perception, and subjectivity forged a new language of painting. Over more than five decades, Corse has maintained a commitment to abstraction and belief in modernist painting even as she charted her own course through her studies in quantum physics and investigations into a range of unconventional materials, from Tesla coils and neon to glass microbeads and glitter. Kim Conaty's essay investigates how the artist's early experiments with light--creating "paintings" made of fluorescent or neon--made way for her subsequent explorations into how light might be integrated into the surface of her canvases through the interplay of reflection and refraction. Corse's exquisite paintings activate the viewer in the creation of the perceptual experience: the kinetic effect of the work is contingent upon the movement of the body through space. As Corse has explained: "Art is not on the wall, it's in your perception."

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A pioneering and richly illustrated retrospective that covers all five decades of Mary Corse's career, focusing on her role as influential figure in California's largely male-dominated Light and Space movement.

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ISBN:
9780300234978
Binding:
Hardcover
Publication date:
07/17/2018
Publisher:
Whitney Museum of American Art
Language:
English
Pages:
160
Height:
.90IN
Width:
10.30IN
LCCN:
2018015432
Illustration:
Yes
Author:
Kim Conaty
Oth:
Robin Clark
Oth:
Michael Govan

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