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Elie Nadelman: Sculptor of Modern Life

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This book which was originally the accompanying catalogue to Elie Nadelman's 2003 retrospective exhibition at The Whitney Museum is a treasure trove of new and revelatory imformation on a great American artist. Forgotten? No. Under-rated or not well known enough? Yes! This is the first really comprehensive study of the amazingly varied artwork and life of Elie Nadelman since the well written but slightly over-stuffed bio on the artist written by his original biographer/historian, the always quirky and self-absorbed Lincoln Kirstein.

In this thankfully easier to read book on Nadelman by Whitney curator Barbara Haskell we get a much more intimate idea as to the life and working influences of Nadelman. Unlike Kirstein's book, there is a consise way to Haskell's writing which invites the reader into the artist's life and puts you right where the action is, which is exactly where Elie Nadelman was as an artist in the early decades of the 20th Century. Not as popular a figure as he should be in the art-world this tome to a great American artist fulfills what even the artist himself never did. It solidifies Elie Nadelman as one of the greats !