The first monograph on the American artist Susan Weil, a respected
figure in modern art history. A longtime fixture in the New York art
scene, Susan Weil has always maintained an adventurous attitude toward
material and form even as she continued to paint self-assuredly in both
abstract and representational modes. Her mixed media works address the
plastic quality of time and space through processes of cutting,
crumpling, and refiguring her compositions. Weil has influenced many in
the Abstract Expressionist movement--especially her ex-husband, Robert
Rauschenberg, with whom she collaborated on many projects, most notably
the Blueprint paintings of 1950. This monograph features Susan Weil's
sculptural paintings and installations made from an array of media, from
paper to fabric, wood, aluminum, creased, cut up, and assembled in
unexpected new orders.