9783791358741-379135874X-Julie Mehretu

Julie Mehretu

ISBN-13: 9783791358741
ISBN-10: 379135874X
Author: Christine Y. Kim, Rujeko Hockley
Publication date: 2019
Publisher: Prestel
Format: Hardcover 320 pages
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ISBN-13: 9783791358741
ISBN-10: 379135874X
Author: Christine Y. Kim, Rujeko Hockley
Publication date: 2019
Publisher: Prestel
Format: Hardcover 320 pages

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Julie Mehretu (ISBN-13: 9783791358741 and ISBN-10: 379135874X), written by authors Christine Y. Kim, Rujeko Hockley, was published by Prestel in 2019. With an overall rating of 3.8 stars, it's a notable title among other Monographs (Individual Artists, Criticism, Arts History & Criticism) books. You can easily purchase or rent Julie Mehretu (Hardcover) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used Monographs books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $57.44.

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One of The New York Times Best Art Books of 2019

This full-scale retrospective monograph of Julie Mehretu's work traces the development of one of America's most celebrated abstract painters.


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 a major mid-career survey of Mehretu's work. Designed to allow close viewing of Mehretu's vast canvases, it features lush reproductions of her paintings in their entirety, as well as numerous full-page details. 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. 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 time spent in 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 examination of painting, history, geopolitics, and displacement.

Published with the Whitney Museum of American Art
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