Published on the occasion of Ursula von Rydingsvard's exhibition, The Contour of Feeling, at the Fabric Workshop and Museum in Philadelphia, this catalog illuminates the artist’s artistic development since 2000, examining her predilection for emotionally charged, visceral art that is hand-wrought, richly complex, and monumentally scaled. Featuring more than twenty-five sculptures that highlight the artist’s evolution, as well as a new leatherwork sculpture created in collaboration with the Fabric Workshop and Museum, an extensive interview between Mark Rosenthal and the artist, and an essay by von Rydingsvard titled “Why I Make Art,” this book provides a window into the artist's unique synthesis of emotional fragility and imposing scale. Hardcover, 128 pages.
