PROJECT DESCRIPTION

The most comprehensive volume yet published on the work and legacy of the "forgotten star of Pop art," with previously unpublished materials and new scholarly explorations

In the mid-1960s Marisol was lauded as the female artist of her generation and was proclaimed to be “the only girl artist with glamour” for her fashion sense and “the Latin Garbo” for her apparent exoticism, legendary beauty and famed silences. Thousands lined up to see her remarkable life-size Pop art sculptures early in her career, and her celebrity nearly overshadowed her formidable accomplishments. But this attention would fade following her temporary retreat from the art world in the late 1960s and a shift in her work’s subject matter.

This catalogue, the most comprehensive on Marisol’s work ever assembled, accompanies a major retrospective organized by the Buffalo AKG Art Museum that reckons with the entirety of her pioneering, multifaceted, 60-year career. While celebrating her satirical and deceptively political sculptures and self-portraits that helped define the 1960s, the book also examines her works that embody animal intelligence and allude to environmental precarity, testifies to interpersonal violence, engages with the immigrant experience, figures postcolonial disenfranchisement, and destabilizes sexual norms and gender binaries. Her public sculptures and collaborations with choreographers are examined for the first time. Assessments by leading scholars affirm Marisol’s radical legacy for the 21st century. These exciting reflections are presented alongside full-color reproductions of her works, a robust bibliography, an exhibition history and an illustrated chronology.

BOOK INFORMATION

Trim Size: 8 x 11.5

Number of Pages: 272

Binding Method: Hardcover, Wibalin uncoated paper printed 3-color with debossed text on front and spine and orange sprayed edging on the book block

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Typefaces: Union, by Radim Pesko, for the vertical titles and the cover; Argent CF, by Connary Fagen, for the internal titles; Acta, by Dino dos Santos, for the texts; Helvetica Neue Lt Std for some minor details

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Creative Director: Paula Tinoco

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Book Designer: Paula Tinoco

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