Joel Shapiro

the long version

Joel Shapiro: Sculpture and Works on Paper 1969-2019 is the first book in more than twenty years to survey the artist's entire working career. In an extensive essay, art historian Richard Shiff provides a fresh and incisive examination of Shapiro's oeuvre and working process, illuminating the factors and forces that allow his work to remain ever in flux and unpredictable, cohesive and yet multifarious. With more than three hundred striking full-color illustrations, this is a long-anticipated and much-needed survey of this vital American artist.