Pat Steir Installations Book

A few years ago, The New York Times's Ken Johnson wrote of a series of Pat Steir paintings that "Beauty and Intellect join forces" in them, and that "what saves them from being just pretty pictures is the way they weave together several strands of meaning into a more complex conceptual fabric." Over the decades that Steir has been carrying on just the sort of A-list painting career that pulls in accolades like that, she has also been, more quietly, putting up installations in Europe, Asia, and the U.S. Pat Steir Installations is the first book to fully document these less prominent but equally striking and important works--to which Steir feels just as committed as her painting. Complete biographical and bibliographical information, an essay and an extensive interview between Doris von Drathen and Steir make this volume as valuable for scholars as it is for those browsers pulled in by the beauty and intellect that draws the critics.