A new retrospective of the work of trailblazing artist Barbara Chase-Riboud
Barbara Chase-Riboud is a bestselling novelist, an award-winning poet, and a renowned visual artist whose sculpture and drawings are in museum collections around the world. Among her best-known sculptural work is the Malcolm X series of flowing cast bronze forms combined with braided fiber elements. Barbara Chase-Riboud Monumentale traces this pioneering artist-s remarkable career from the 1950s to the present, providing the most comprehensive account of her important body of work to date.
The book features both celebrated and never-before-seen artworks that highlight Chase-Riboud-s groundbreaking contributions to contemporary sculpture. In addition to some forty sculptures, the book presents nearly twenty works on paper, a selection of Chase-Riboud-s poetry, and excerpts from an interview with the artist.
Exploring the many different aspects of Chase-Riboud-s artist
