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Muse - Mickalene Thomas Photographs (Hardcover)
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Muse - Mickalene Thomas Photographs (Hardcover)
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Mickalene Thomas, known for her large-scale, multi-textured, and
rhinestone-encrusted paintings of domestic interiors and portraits,
has also identified the photographic image as a defining touchstone
for her practice. Thomas first began to photograph herself and her
mother as a student at Yale-a pivotal experience for her as an
artist. While working across multiple series, much of her
photographic work functions as a personal act of deconstruction and
reappropriation-both of images she has created herself and images
she has singled out as influence. With each series, she grapples
with and asserts new definitions of beauty and inspiration.
Thomas's portraits draw equally from 1970s black-is-beautiful
images of women such as supermodel Beverly Johnson and actress
Vonetta McGee; Edouard Manet's odalisque figures; and the
mise-en-scene studio portraiture of James Van Der Zee and Malick
Sidibe, to mention a few. Perhaps of greatest importance, however,
this collection of portraits and staged scenes reflects a very
personal community of inspiration as well-a collection of muses
that includes herself, her mother, and her friends and lovers,
emphasizing the communal and social aspects of art-making and
creativity that pervade her work. This volume is the first to
gather together her various approaches to photography, including
portraits, collages, Polaroids, and other processes, and will be
the foundation for a major traveling exhibition of the work to
launch in 2015.
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