Louise Nevelson: A Passionate Life by Laurie Lisle

Louise Nevelson:   A Passionate Life by Laurie Lisle is a 352-page hardcover published in 1990 by Summit Books.  The dust jacket has surface rubbing and some shelf wear.  Inside, the book is in very good condition although there is some cracking to the spine along the middle of the book, but all of the pages are intact. Book Summary Louise Nevelson, the most original and perhaps the most famous American sculptor of the twentieth century, was a strikingly beautiful woman who lived so unconventional a life that by the time of her death in 1988 she had become a legend outside as well as inside the art world. Born Leah Berliawsky in a provincial Russian town near Kiev in 1899, she immigrated To America with her family when she was five. They settled in Rockland, Maine, where, as Jews and foreigners, they were ostracized. Louise, whose talent emerged early, grew up feeling alternately Superior and inferior. At 20, to escape from Maine, she married a wealthy New Yorker and moved to Manhatta