Harry Bertoia, Sculptor

Harry Bertoia, Sculptor is devoted to the life and work of a twentieth-century Italian-born American artist whose important commissions are located in twenty-five American cities from New York to Seattle and from Minneapolis to Miami. It traces the development of Bertoia's versatile career from his youth in Detroit, beginning with drawings, paintings, and monoprints, then jewelry and furniture designs, to his abstract sculptures in metals, many of architectural proportions.

The book includes a biography of the man and detailed descriptions of his methods of working. Many major sculptures and some minor ones are described in detail. They are critically analyzed for their aesthetic components and the ideas they were intended to express. A large number of photographs supplements the descriptions and analyses. Two appendixes give chronologies of the artist's life and of his architectural commissions, the latter virtually a catalog of Bertoia's major works. Based on several extensive interviews with the artist, as well as on research into his earlier writings, the book includes Bertoia's thoughts on aesthetics and various phases of the art processes he uses. His work is categorized into four major aesthetic explorations that interested him most of his life.

《哈利·貝托亞，雕塑家》是一本致力於二十世紀意大利出生的美國藝術家的生活和作品的書籍。他的重要委託作品分佈在從紐約到西雅圖，從明尼阿波利斯到邁阿密的二十五個美國城市。該書追溯了貝托亞多才多藝的職業生涯的發展，從他在底特律的青年時期開始，從繪畫、繪畫和單色印刷品開始，然後是珠寶和家具設計，最後是他的抽象金屬雕塑，其中許多具有建築比例。

該書包括了對這位藝術家的傳記以及他工作方法的詳細描述。許多主要雕塑和一些次要雕塑都有詳細的描述。它們被批評性地分析其美學組成部分和它們旨在表達的思想。大量的照片補充了描述和分析。兩個附錄提供了藝術家生活和建築委託的年表，後者幾乎是貝托亞主要作品的目錄。根據與藝術家進行的幾次廣泛訪談以及對他早期著作的研究，該書包括了貝托亞對美學和他使用的藝術過程的各個階段的思考。他的作品被分為他一生中最感興趣的四個主要美學探索。

June Kompass Nelson studied at the Drexel Institute of Technology, Philadelphia; the University of Florence and the Academy of Fine Arts, Florence, Italy; and Wayne State University.

June Kompass Nelson 在費城的德雷塞爾科技學院、佛羅倫斯大學和佛羅倫斯美術學院以及韋恩州立大學進行學習。