Manuel Neri

Alternate Titles

• Artists' books, the collaborative process.

Description

"This striking publication focuses on relief sculptures and related drawings by Manuel Neri. The extensive body of work is clearly grounded in a long sculptural tradition that stretches back through the Renaissance and Medieval sculpture to ancient architectural sites, and underscores Neri's significance as a sculptor of international note whose works in plaster, ceramic, bronze, and stone have merited him the 2006 Lifetime Achievement Award from the International Sculpture Center. Neri has created figurative relief sculpture over a period of twenty-five years. His concern with the dynamic nature of the architectural or spatial environment has developed his keen understanding of its potency as a setting for the figure. His pieces possess incredibly rich and evocative surfaces and his ability to depict the figural form in various media with equal mastery and sensitivity is unrivaled. This publication documents not only reliefs but also more than fifty years of Neri's engagement with the partial figure."--Publisher's website.

Description

"The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco are pleased to present this exhibition of artists' books by Manuel Neri in the Reva and David Logan Gallery of Illustrated Books. This catalogue offers an Introduction by Robert Flynn Johnson, Curator-in-Charge of the Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts, and a comprehensive essay by Bruce Nixon on Manuel Neri's artists' book collaborations, with color illustrations of the complete book projects and related sculptures and drawings by Neri." "Manuel Neri's work with the artists' book is almost certainly his least known. The number of these projects has been few, four so far, all produced in very limited numbers. Until now, these books have been scarcely documented, at least in comparison to Neri's voluminous production as a sculptor. Consistent with the substantial tradition of the livre d'artiste, Neri's artists' books represent a lengthy, sometimes difficult, sometimes intense collaborative process between artist and author, one that may consume years or, for that matter, decades."--Jacket.

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Other Editions

• Manuel Neri: artists' books, the collaborative processFine Arts Museums of San Francisco2005-01-01
• Manuel NeriPaperbackFine Arts Museum of San Francisco2005-01-01
• Manuel NeriHardcoverHudson Hills Press2005-09-25
• Manuel NeriHudson Hills Press2007-01-01
• Manuel NeriHardcoverHudson Hills Press2007-04-25