Julia Bryan-Wilson on Louise Nevelson

The Great Women Artists

Katy Hessel

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4.8 • 877 Ratings

🗓️ 8 November 2023

⏱️ 38 minutes

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THIS WEEK on the GWA Podcast, we interview world-renowned scholar, Julia Bryan-Wilson – the Professor of Art History and LGBTQ+ Studies at Columbia University – on the trailblazing artist, Louise Nevelson! “It’s not the medium that counts. It is what you see in it and what you do with it, " said Nevelson, the sculptor working in the mid-20th century New York City, hailed for her monochromatic, architectural wall sculptures amassed from found, recycled and discarded objects. Nevelson’s monochromatic and architectural wall sculptures are amassed from found, recycled and discarded objects sourced from her surrounding environment (from bedposts to bannisters), which she coated in opaque paint and stacked tall to form all-engulfing units. Nevelson, like Krasner, studied with Hans Hofmann (you can almost feel the fragmented lines that form through her innovations), and was also influenced by the ancient ruins of Mexico and Guate- mala. This inspiration is evident in her work Sky Cathedral, 1958, which questioned new types of religious experiences and spaces. Bryan-Wilson is the expert in Louise Nevelson, having authored the monumental new book Louise Nevelson's Sculpture: Drag, Color, Join, Face (2023), as well as curated one-person shows: https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300236705/louise-nevelsons-sculpture/ A great documentary on Nevelson: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nnfEmNRzoCs&t=1332s&ab_channel=TheMet https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AnYBR9VAPsI&ab_channel=Tate Additional information: https://www.nytimes.com/1988/04/19/obituaries/louise-nevelson-sculptor-is-dead-at-88.html https://louisenevelsonfoundation.org/biography https://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/09/arts/design/09neve.html -- THIS EPISODE IS GENEROUSLY SUPPORTED BY THE LEVETT COLLECTION: https://www.instagram.com/famm.mougins // https://www.merrellpublishers.com/9781858947037 ENJOY!!! Follow us: Katy Hessel: @thegreatwomenartists / @katy.hessel Sound editing by Nada Smiljanic Music by Ben Wetherfield https://www.thegreatwomenartists.com/

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0:00.0	Hello everyone and welcome back to the Great Women Artists podcast. I am delighted to say that this
0:06.2	series is supported by the Levitt Collection, a vast and varied art collection of which a major portion
0:11.8	is dedicated to works by women artists. The Levit Collection's support for women in the arts is such
0:17.0	that preparations are in full swing for the creation of the new museum. FAMM, F-A-M,
0:23.6	female artists of the Mujan Museum, which will be opening in June 24 in Mujan, near Cannes in
0:30.5	the south of France. It will be the first major museum in mainland Europe, dedicated solely
0:36.1	to female artists and will exhibit a myriad of
0:39.0	artworks from the collection, from the Impressionists to Surrealism plus modern and contemporary
0:43.7	art. It's opening next June, but in the meantime, stay tuned by following their Instagram,
0:49.2	fam.m. All in the show notes. I hope you enjoy this episode.
1:05.7	Hello everyone and welcome to The Great Women Artist podcast with me, Katie Hessel.
1:17.4	Some of you might know me from The Great Women Artists, an Instagram account I set up in October 2015, which celebrates female artists on a daily basis, ranging from young graduates to old masters.
1:26.2	Well, in a similar fashion to the Instagram, this podcast is all about celebrating female artists from a variety of backgrounds and histories.
1:31.3	And I am so excited to be interviewing artists on their career or artists, writers, curators or general art lovers on the women artist who means most of them.
1:36.3	What I want this podcast to do is celebrate female artists in all different capacities,
1:41.3	so you, the listener, can gain a look into the greatest female artists
1:45.0	working now or from art history.
1:50.3	I am so excited to say that my guest on the Great Women Artists podcast is the world-renowned
1:55.4	scholar Julia Brian Wilson. The professor of art history and LGBTQ plus studies at Columbia University and curator at
2:03.6	large at the Museum of Art Sao Paulo. Brian Wilson has been instrumental in her work as a queer
2:09.2	feminist art historian, critic and curator. From organising exhibitions that look at women artists
2:14.8	working before 1900 to those that explore the history of dance.
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