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Julie Mehretu

By (author) Christine Y. Kim, By (author) Rujeko Hockley, Contributions by Andrianna Campbell, Contributions by Adrienne Edwards






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Over the past twenty-five years Julie Mehretu has emerged as a major force in American art. Known mostly for her enormous abstract paintings, she also produces exquisite drawings, often created as studies for larger works. This sumptuous volume accompanies the first major retrospective of Mehretu's work. Designed to allow close viewing of Mehretu's enormous canvases, it features lush reproductions of her paintings in their entirety, as well as archival materials that illuminate her process. The genesis for much of Mehretu's work lies in the black ink drawings she created in the late 1990s. From these early drawings and paintings, Mehretu moved onto large-scale canvases. These drawings and paintings are maplike and colorful, with diagrammatic elements that reflect her life experience. Lately, Mehretu's work has shifted to being more atmospheric and largely monochromatic. Each of these stages of her oeuvre is represented here, including works from her landmark exhibition Drawing into Painting, the twelve-panel intaglio, Auguries, and the paintings she created as a result of traveling to Africa and the Middle East. Accompanying these images are numerous essays by leading curators, scholars, and writers. Long overdue, this magnificent volume pays tribute to an artist whose work and process intermingle in a unique and important interpretation of the state of our world.

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Publisher | Prestel
Published date | 7 Nov 2019
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Format | Hardback
Pages | 320
Dimensions | 276 x 257 x 32mm (L x W x H)
Weight | 1943g
ISBN | 978-3-7913-5874-1
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