David Smith / Joan Pachner.

By:

Pachner, Joan

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Phaison FocusPublication details: London : Phaidon Press, 2013.Description: 145 S. : überw. IllISBN:

9780714861562
0714861561

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

730.92 SMI

Holdings
Item type	Current library	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Standard Loan	LSAD Library Main Collection	730.92 SMI (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	Checked out	30/06/2020	39002100467019

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

The perfect introduction to the life and work of David Smith

Risks and rewards -- The early years -- The 1930s. Photography in the 1930s ; Welding ; Medals for dishonor -- War and its aftermath : the 1940s. Helmholtzian landscape ; Photographing sculpture -- Maturity : the 1950s. Drawings and sprays ; The working process -- Full flower : 1960-5. Voltri ; Cubi ; The fields -- Chronology -- List of works.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 145).

Author notes provided by Syndetics

Joan Pachner, a David Smith scholar since the 1980s, has published and lectured widely on the artist's work. She pioneered the study of the artist's photographs in an essay in David Smith: Photographs 1931-1965 (1998). She has also lectured and written about the artist's life at Bolton Landing in the Adirondacks, notably the 'The Concept is Primary. The Medium is Secondary' lecture part of the programme 'A Sculptor's Eye: David Smith & Photography' in 2006, and has contributed to such publications as The Fields of David Smith (1997) and Painted Steel: The Late Work of David Smith(1998). As an independent art historian, she specializes in modern sculpture and lectures at the Museum of Modern Art, New York.