Revolution in the making: abstract sculpture by women, 1947-2016

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This catalog, published to accompany an exhibition at Hauser Wirth & Schimmel, examines the undeniable presence and emotional impact of sculpture made from a woman's point of view. Focused solely on abstract sculpture, this exhibition brings together a group of revolutionary sculptural works. It allows us to look at the history of postwar abstraction from a new perspective, illuminating the fundamental changes that these generations of artists brought to bear on sculpture within the histories of modernism and beyond.

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Preface / Iwan and Manuela Wirth -- Foreword / Paul Schimmel and Jenni Sorkin -- Acknowledgments / Paul Schimmel -- "What can be done, what I must learn, what there is to do..." : process, materials, and narrative in the 1950s / Elizabeth A.T. Smith -- Ruth Asawa, Lee Bontecou, Louise Bourgeois, Claire Falkenstein, Louise Nevelson -- What women do, or The poetics of sculpture / Anne M. Wagner -- Magdalena Abakanowicz, Lynda Benglis, Heidi Bucher, Gego, Françoise Grossen, Eva Hesse, Sheila Hicks, Yayoi Kusama, Mira Schendel, Michelle Stuart, Hannah Wilke, Jackie Winsor -- Five propositions on abstract sculpture / Jenni Sorkin -- Isa Genzken, Cristina Iglesias, Liz Larner, Anna Maria Maiolino, Marisa Merz, Senga Nengudi, Lygia Pape, Ursula von Rydingsvard -- Phyllida Barlow, Karla Black, Abigail DeVille, Sonia Gomes, Rachel Khedoori, Lara Schnitger, Shinique Smith, Jessica Stockholder, Kaari Upson -- Exhibition checklist -- Artists' biographies and selected bibliographies / Emily Rothrum -- Selected group exhibitions / Emily Rothrum.