Louise Berliawsky Nevelson
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Louise Berliawsky Nevelson (born Leah Berliawsky, September 23, 1899, Kiev, Czarist Russia - d. April 17, 1988, New York, New York) was a Ukrainian-born American artist.
Nevelson is known for her abstract expressionist “boxes” grouped together to form a new creation. She used found objects or everyday discarded things in her “assemblages” or assemblies, one of which was three stories high: ”When you put together things that other people have thrown out, you’re really bringing them to life – a spiritual life that surpasses the life for which they were originally created." Louise was married to Charles Nevelson, and had a child named Myron.
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At Pace Columbus, Gold
[edit] Books
- Busch, Julia M., A Decade of Sculpture: the New Media in the 1960's (The Art Alliance Press: Philadelphia; Associated University Presses: London, 1974) ISBN 0-87982-007-1
- Wilson, Laurie; Louise Nevelson : iconography and sources (New York : Garland Pub., 1981) ISBN 0-8240-3946-7
- Marika Herskovic, American Abstract Expressionism of the 1950s An Illustrated Survey, (New York School Press, 2003.) ISBN 0-9677994-1-4
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Categories: 1899 births | 1988 deaths | American artists | American sculptors | American printmakers | American Jews | Jewish sculptors | Modern sculptors | Naturalized citizens of the United States | People from Maine | People from New York City | Members of Art Students League of New York | United States National Medal of Arts recipients | Women artists
