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Published on the occasion of The Drawing Center's exhibition, Ree Morton: At The Still Point of the Turning World highlights Morton s influential body of work, remarkably all produced in a single decade between her decision to turn to art full-time in the late 1960s and her tragic death in an automobile accident in 1977, shortly before her 41st birthday. While reflecting many of the currents of Postminimal art of the 1970s, Morton's work also looked to a pioneering use of personal narrative, intimacy, humor, and poetic imagination. Yet the scope of her artistic production remains largely unrecognized, as does her vital contribution to feminist art practice and the importance of drawing to her development as an artist. This publication, number 87 in the Drawing Papers series, features 58 color plates, a conversation between Cornelia H. Butler, Joao Ribas, and Allan Schwartzman, as well as Lucy Lippard's new introduction to her 1973 essay At the Still Point of the Turning World.