Holly Day
George Sugarman
From Tether 1, page 18:
“My absolute conviction is that the purpose of a sculptor is to create the presence of space.”
— George Sugarman
“The joy of life that emanates from George Sugarman’s painted wooden sculptures from the sixties is an amazing experience. Intense bright reds, blues, yellows, and greens of idiosyncratic forms spill out onto the floor or shoot into space in teetering improbable poses as if doing a jazzy dance. No wonder that one 1961 sculpture is named for Ornette Coleman whose album, The Shape of Jazz to Come, has the kind of ebullient, expansive structure of disparate parts that Sugarman admired. Both Coleman’s jazz and Sugarman’s sculpture nonetheless have an inner structure and logic that shape it.”
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Tether 1 contains essays by Bill Berkson on the influence of Piero Della Francesca; W. C. Bamberger presents never before published translations of the surrealist art critic Emil Szittya; Holly Day discusses George Sugarman’s polychrome sculptures from the 1960’s; John Willenbecher unearths something out of the ordinary about Chardin’s drawers; Judith Stein writes about the little known textile works of Katherine Porter; Douglas Crase reflects on sitting for a portrait; Trevor Winkfield unpacks the mysteries of Cezanne’s masterpiece, Mardi Gras; Nathan Kernan leaks a preview of his forthcoming biography on James Schuyler; Bill Zavatsky translates Robert Desnos’s 1926 book “It’s The Seven League Boots This Phrase ‘I See Myself’”; a selection of pages from Gerald Murphy’s notebooks; Chris Byrne introduces us to the visionary work of Susan Te Kahurangi King; Paul Hammond recalls his childhood awakening to the world of cinema; Charles North debunks the threat of poetry; and an essay on walking in the English countryside by A.J.A. Symons.
Printed in the USA
Edition of 500
9 black and white images and 59 color images
Item Weight : 0.82 pounds
Paperback : 180 pages
ISBN: 978069237617151500
Product Dimensions : 6 x 0.5 x 8.25 inches
Publisher : Sienese Shredder Editions; Pap/Com Edition (2015)
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