Title: Michael Lucero : sculpture 1976-1995 /
Authors: Leach, Mark Richard; Bloemink, Barbara J.; Lippard, Lucy R.; Lucero, Michael, 1953-; Mint Museum of Art.
Publisher: Hudson Hills Press,
Year: 1996
Subjects: Lucero, Michael, Exhibitions.
Abstract: "This volume presents two decades of Michael Lucero's glazed ceramic, bronze, and mixed media sculptures, including such series as the Dreamers, Pre-Columbus, New World, and Reclamations. While at first glance his work appears to be a vigorous example of contemporary ceramic sculpture with a background in 1960s California art and a foreground in New York eclecticism, in fact his figurative forms borrow liberally and wittily from the history of art of various cultures, including pre-Columbian, Native American, European, Afro-Carolinian, and the vernacular and popular media. The imagery that slides in and out of the complex glazes of this master of the ceramic medium is art about art and about self. The consistent strength of the work comes from a fusion of ceramic tradition with sculptural innovation, and from a combination of extraordinarily fine technique, keen wide-ranging intelligence, and the resonance brought to bear by past associations, cultures, and use."--BOOK JACKET.
Contents: Foreword / Bruce H. Evans -- Preface / Mark Richard Leach and Barbara J. Bloemink -- A Conversation with Michael Lucero / Mark Richard Leach -- Flowers and Songs that Intertwine / Lucy R. Lippard -- Mining for Meaning: Subversive Improvisation and Resonant Empathy in the Work of Michael Lucero / Barbara J. Bloemink -- Catalogue of the Exhibition -- Michael Lucero -- Mint Museum of Art Trustees and Staff.