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Louise Nevelson

Louise Nevelson

$40.00 at Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.

Nevelson's monumental, monochromatic assemblages of everyday objects speak to both material and feminist sensibilities Ukrainian by birth and a naturalized US citizen, artist Louise Nevelson (1899–1988) anticipated the theme of recycling and memory through her work made of assembled objects and industrial scraps. By opposing the conventions traditionally imposed on the women of her time, she anticipated today's polarization regarding gender expectations and women's rights. This is the first volume in a new…