Bruce Beasley: Sixty Year Retrospective, 1960-2020

By Bruce Beasley, Tom Moran, Marlena Doktorczyk-Donohue

This richly illustrated volume celebrates six decades of the sculptor Bruce Beasley's works in a wide range of media and will serve as the definitive treatment of his distinguished career. For six decades, sculptor Bruce Beasley has worked in a range of media to build complex, resonant sculptures that communicate the primacy of form and express the emotional language of shape. Bruce Beasley: Sixty Year Retrospective is an elegant survey of his illustrious career: from early experiments in scrap iron during the 1960s; aluminum works of the 1970s; cast acrylic sculptures of the 1970s and 80s; and stone, stainless steel and bronze works of the 1990s to the present day. The catalog also features Beasley's latest venture into two-dimensional media.This richly illustrated book includes Beasley's reflections on his career. In a conversation, Beasley and Lawrence Weschler discuss art and activism. Essays discussing his processes and appraising his impact are written by curator Tom Moran and Marlena Doktorczyk-Donohue, Director of the Bruce Beasley Foundation and Professor of Art History at Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1785514016
• ISBN13: 9781785514012
• Release Date: April 2022
• Publisher: Scala Arts Publishers Inc.
• Length: 180 Pages
• Weight: 3.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 11.3" x 11.3"