false 2202329 1 In her essay for this concise new catalogue of Lee Bontecou's early, transparent vacuum-formed fish and flora sculptures and associated works on paper, the esteemed curator and art historian Elisabeth Sussman writes, "From a standpoint 40 years later, as sculptors everywhere seek to marry form, expression, observation, social context and modern materials in single objects and in groups of objects, or installations; when making materials function in individual, idiosyncratic, expressive ways is a mark of distinction; Bontecou's fish and plants of the late 1960s and early 1970s now appear highly prophetic." Bontecou's early summers in Nova Scotia imbued her with a lifelong fascination with nature and the sea. After studying at the Art Students League in New York (1952-55) and spending a year in Rome on a Fulbright Fellowship (1956-57), Bontecou settled in New York's Lower East Side, and then Soho. In the late 1960s, however, she began to spend part of each year in the mountains of rural Pennsylvania, where she immersed herself in an evocative inner world of natural forms derived from fish and plants. Using a vacuum-forming machine invented by an artist friend, Bontecou created the haunting, light-weight translucent sculptures gathered here. 2208092 15 12 2007 Lee Bontecou: Vacuum-formed Sculptures and Related Drawings total:6|5:4|4:2| 6 28 6 0 2202329 0978998723 9780978998721 6 0 4.67 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2202329.Lee_Bontecou_Vacuum_formed_Sculptures_and_Related_Drawings 5 0 false Tue Mar 03 19:27:24 -0800 2009 Tue Mar 03 19:27:24 -0800 2009 2202329 0978998723 9780978998721 6 0 4.67 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2202329.Lee_Bontecou_Vacuum_formed_Sculptures_and_Related_Drawings 5 0 false Mon Feb 16 22:17:26 -0800 2009 Mon Feb 16 22:17:26 -0800 2009 2202329 0978998723 9780978998721 6 0 4.67 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2202329.Lee_Bontecou_Vacuum_formed_Sculptures_and_Related_Drawings 4 0 false Sun Jan 20 23:32:27 -0800 2008 Sun Jan 20 23:34:08 -0800 2008 2202329 0978998723 9780978998721 6 0 4.67 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2202329.Lee_Bontecou_Vacuum_formed_Sculptures_and_Related_Drawings 5 0 false Sat Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Tue Jan 15 09:58:42 -0800 2008 Tue Jan 15 09:58:55 -0800 2008 2202329 0978998723 9780978998721 6 0 4.67 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2202329.Lee_Bontecou_Vacuum_formed_Sculptures_and_Related_Drawings 5 0 false Thu Nov 22 21:20:10 -0800 2007 Thu Nov 22 21:20:10 -0800 2007 2202329 0978998723 9780978998721 6 0 4.67 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2202329.Lee_Bontecou_Vacuum_formed_Sculptures_and_Related_Drawings 4 0 false Tue Nov 20 16:16:41 -0800 2007 Tue Nov 20 16:16:41 -0800 2007 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=2202329