Louise Nevelson's Sculpture

“[Bryan-Wilson] shows why Nevelson’s sculpture matters today, and that art history can be a tool for responding to what is happening now.”—Sophie Oliver, Times Literary Supplement

“Here is a book that is not only a transformative study of a single artist but also a record of the scholar’s own labor—and her devotion.”—Artforum

“The book is at once idiosyncratic, politically avant, and effortlessly, gracefully polyphonic. . . . A major book by a major art historian.”—Jon Raymond, Literary Hub

“Dense with insight. . . . The ingenious modular structure mirrors Nevelson’s work visually and conceptually, allowing meaning to accrete through a non-hierarchical relationship of parts.”—Brooklyn Rail

“Bryan-Wilson paves new roads to better understand both Nevelson’s [works] and the worlds they continue to inhabit since their inception.”—Andrew Wang, ARLIS/NA Reviews

“Boldly conceived, Julia Bryan-Wilson’s far-reaching study gives us a multidirectional understanding of Louise Nevelson’s intersectional abstraction that renders the artist strikingly contemporary.”—Kobena Mercer, author of Travel & See: Black Diaspora Art Practices since the 1980s

“Julia Bryan-Wilson’s Louise Nevelson is exceptional in its innovative framing, physical structure, and above all, brilliantly original weaving of personal experience, material analysis, and art historical methodologies.”—Jo Applin, author of Lee Lozano: Not Working

“Bryan-Wilson brings world-class critical, feminist, and social-historical skills to bear on Nevelson’s sculpture and public persona. The result is that we see Nevelson’s radiant intelligence in a new light.”—Richard Meyer, author of Master of the Two Left Feet: Morris Hirshfield Rediscovered

“From the multicomponent design to the conceptual approaches therein, Bryan-Wilson has crafted an innovative and engaging look at Louise Nevelson. Further, she offers a queered, critical methodology that changes the game.”—Bridget R. Cooks, author of Exhibiting Blackness: African Americans and the American Art Museum