Lynda Benglis (Phaidon Contemporary Artists Series)

Review\n‘Lynda Benglis redefined sculpture in the 1960s and is now at her most prolific.’ – New York Times\n‘She’s a globe-trotting artist who can shock and delight at once.’ – Financial Times\n‘She rocked the art world.’ – Washington Post\n‘Her work has been about seizing art as a tool of empowerment and autonomy.’ – Artforum\n‘Benglis has always gone her own way – an attitude that has sometimes got her into trouble. But trouble can lead to great art.’ – Guardian\n‘[Benglis’s] work is consistently and irrepressibly ahead of its time.’ ― Roberta Smith\nThe definitive monograph on American sculptor and visual artist Lynda Benglis, one of the most important living artists today
Since her arrival in New York from her native Louisiana in the late 1960s, Lynda Benglis gained recognition for creating a groundbreaking body of work that challenged sculpture and painting conventions in a largely male-dominated art world.
A tireless explorer of new shape and materials, Benglis's gestural and formal approach to art-making has, over the years, elevated her to iconic status, her work being evidence of how process can wield pliant matter and let it 'take its own form'