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Martin Puryear

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By Emily Liebert
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Martin Puryear provides a comprehensive look at the career of an important American artist, highlighting the global histories, traditions, and techniques of production that shaped his work. Over the last five decades, Martin Puryear (b. 1941) has pioneered an influential sculptural language that integrates wide-ranging aesthetic... Read More
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Martin Puryear provides a comprehensive look at the career of an important American artist, highlighting the global histories, traditions, and techniques of production that shaped his work.

Over the last five decades, Martin Puryear (b. 1941) has pioneered an influential sculptural language that integrates wide-ranging aesthetic traditions and techniques of production with roots around the world. Through his innovative use of form, materials, and process, Puryear’s work exemplifies the expressive potential for abstraction in our time. This book highlights the global histories that have shaped Puryear’s practice, offering a fresh and timely perspective on his art. It emphasizes the unique ways that the artist combines the diverse histories of making that he has encountered throughout his travels, observations, research, and study.

A range of eminent thinkers and makers, including Thelma Golden (b. 1965), Maya Lin (b. 1959), Billie Tsien (b. 1949), and Kerry James Marshall (b. 1955)—some of whom are longtime interlocutors of Puryear—provide a nuanced and multifaceted look at the significance and context of Puryear’s work. These perspectives complement in-depth essays by a new generation of scholars and responses to Puryear’s work by artists at earlier stages in their careers. The book’s dramatic, oversize design and plentiful images allow the reader to clearly see the intricacies of the artist’s celebrated work.

Distributed for the Cleveland Museum of Art

Exhibition Schedule:

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
(September 27, 2025–February 1, 2026)

Cleveland Museum of Art
(April 5–July 26, 2026)

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780300283921

Publisher: Yale University Press

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 23 September 2025

Country: United States

Imprint: Yale University Press

Illustration: 212 color + b-w illus.

Contributors:

  • Contributions by Joan Kee
  • Contributions by Thelma Golden
  • Contributions by Rizvana Bradley
  • Contributions by Maya Lin
  • Contributions by Michelle Millar Fisher
  • Contributions by Tom Joyce
  • With Reto Thüring
  • Contributions by Ugochukwu-Smooth C. Nzewi
  • Contributions by Nairy Baghramian
  • Contributions by Alex Da Corte
  • Edited by Emily Liebert

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 267.0mm

Height: 330.0mm

Weight: 250g

Pages: 240

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About the Author

Emily Liebert is the Lauren Rich Fine Curator of Contemporary Art at the Cleveland Museum of Art.

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