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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Mary Corse
    sub title: a survey in light
  name:
    name part: Conaty, Kim
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Clark, Robin (Robin Lee)
    role:
      role term: contributor.
  name:
    name part: Govan, Michael
    role:
      role term: contributor.
  name:
    name part: Lowry, Alexis
    role:
      role term: contributor.
  name:
    name part: Reed, David
    name part: 1946-
    role:
      role term: contributor.
  name:
    name part: Whitney Museum of American Art
    role:
      role term: issuing body,
    role:
      role term: host institution.
  name:
    name part: Los Angeles County Museum of Art
    role:
      role term: host institution.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2018
    copyright date: 2018
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: 157 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 x 27 cm.
  abstract: Mary Corse's first solo museum survey is a long overdue examination of this singular artist's career. Initially trained as an abstract painter, Corse emerged in the mid-1960s as one of the few women associated with the West Coast Light and Space movement. She shared with her contemporaries a deep fascination with perception and with the possibility that light itself could serve as both a subject and material of art. Yet while others largely migrated away from painting into sculptural and environmental projects, Corse approached the question of light through painting. This focused exhibition highlights critical moments of experimentation as Corse engaged with tropes of modernist painting, from the monochrome to the grid, while charting her own course through studies in quantum physics and complex investigations into a range of "painting" materials, from fluorescent light and Plexiglas to metallic flakes, glass microspheres, and clay. The survey will bring together for the first time Corse's key bodies of work, including her early shaped canvases, freestanding sculptures and light encasements that she engineered in the mid-1960s, in her early twenties, as well as her breakthrough White Light Paintings, begun in 1968, and the Black Earth Series that she initiated after moving in 1970 from downtown Los Angeles to Topanga Canyon, where she lives and works today.
  table of contents: Foreword / Adam D. Weinberg -- Light + Space + Art / Kim Conaty -- Early works -- Optical Baths of Radiance: Mary Corse's Light Boxes / Robin Clark -- White Light, Black Light, and Black Earth Paintings -- Grounded Light: The Black Earth Series / Alexis Lowry -- White Light Inner Band Paintings -- The Language of Not Knowing / David Reed -- Corse Correction / Michael Govan -- Timeline and Exhibition History / Melinda Lang.
  note: Kim Conaty ; with contributions from Robin Clark, Michael Govan, Alexis Lowry, and David Reed.
  note: This catalogue was published on the occasion of the exhibition Mary Corse: A Survey in Light, organized by Kim Conaty, Steven and Ann Ames Curator of Drawings and Prints, with Melinda Lang, curatorial assistant, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. Exhibition held at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. Exhibition held at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, June 8-November 25, 2018 and at Los Angeles County Museum of Art, July 28-November 10, 2019.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Corse, Mary
      name part: 1945-
    genre: Exhibitions
  subject:
    topic: Light in art
    genre: Exhibitions
  classification: N6537.C663 A4 2018
  classification: 700.92
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Works. Selections
    name:
      name part: Corse, Mary,
      name part: 1945-
  identifier: 9780300234978
  identifier: 030023497X
  identifier: 2018015432
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 180402
    record change date: 20181023093951.0
    record identifier: in00004029866