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Martin Puryear (born May 23, 1941) is an American artist known for his devotion to traditional craft. Working in wood and bronze, among other media, his reductive technique and meditative approach challenge the physical and poetic boundaries of his materials.〔Shearer, Linda. ''Young American Artists 1978 Exxon National Exhibition.'' New York: The Solomon Guggenheim Museum, 1978, pp. 54-57.〕 ==Life== Born in 1941 in Washington, D.C., Martin Puryear began exploring traditional craft methods in his youth, making tools, boats, musical instruments, and furniture.〔Lewallen, Constance. ''Martin Puryear: Matrix/Berkeley 86.'' Berkeley, California: University Art Museum, 1985〕 After receiving a B.A. in Fine Art from the Catholic University of America in 1963, Puryear spent two years as a Peace Corps volunteer in Sierra Leone where he learned local woodworking techniques.〔Elderfield, John. ''Martin Puryear.'' New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 2007, pp. 168-197.〕 From 1966 - 1968, he studied at the Royal Swedish Academy of Arts in Stockholm, returning to the United States afterward to enroll in the graduate program for sculpture at Yale University.〔Benezra, Newal and Robert Storr, eds. ''Martin Puryear.'' Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago, 1991, pp. 128-130.〕 Although he discovered Minimalism at a formative period in his development, Puryear would ultimately reject its impersonality and formalism. After earning his MFA from Yale, Puryear began teaching at Fisk University in Nashville and University of Maryland in College Park. In 1977, following a devastating fire in his Brooklyn studio, Puryear had a solo show at the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. Shortly after he moved to Chicago.〔Elderfield, John. ''Martin Puryear.'' New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 2007, pp. 168-197.〕 In both 1979 and 1981, and again in 1989, his work was included in the Whitney Biennial at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City. He travelled to Japan in 1982 through a Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship where he investigated architecture and garden design.〔Benezra, Newal and Robert Storr, eds. ''Martin Puryear.'' Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago, 1991, pp. 128-130.〕 In 1989, he was awarded the MacArthur Foundation Fellowship. He received the Gold Medal in Sculpture by the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 2007, and was recently awarded the National Medal of Arts. Puryear has lived in New York's Hudson Valley since 1990 where he works in a studio of his own construction. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Martin Puryear」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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