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This is the first volume to document and contextualize Sonya
Clark’s large-scale, collaborative artworks. These projects
demonstrate Clark’s career-long commitment to addressing the
urgent issue of racial inequality in American society and her
philosophy of creatively engaging the viewer in reflection on the
nation’s history of slavery and our roles in dismantling systemic
racism today. As an extension of her abiding commitment to issues
of history, race, and reconciliation in her work, Clark is also
distinctive as an artist for her use of textiles and other everyday
materials, which she aligns with the intertwined histories of art
and craft. For marginalized people (African Americans and women, in
particular) handwork has been essential to survival and
consequently has functioned, and continues to function, as an
important means of creating a group identity. Hence, for Clark,
craft is essential to the question of equality.
Machine Dazzle, to my mind, [is] a true theatrical genius who has
created some of the most inventive costumes and sets I have ever
seen. Hilton Als Machine Dazzle is the much in-demand designer and
artist behind popular cabaret, drag, and performance stars such as
Taylor Mac and transgender icon Mx. Justin Vivian Bond. For the
first time, his over-the-top stage creations, made for himself and
others, are collected in one volume alongside stage environments,
ephemera, and photos from his fascinating career. In Machine Dazzle
s world, costumes are transformative objects with world-making
capacity. The artist s queer maximalism encapsulates a more is
better attitude to making and creating which looks to counter
elitist notions that spectacle and extravagance are vapid. For him
these associations are embraced as queer for their affirmation of
hybridity over purity and the rejection of hierarchies of every
kind, cultural and otherwise. On the occasion of a major exhibition
at the Museum of Arts and Design, curator Elissa Auther brings
together a rich collections of essays and reminiscences from fellow
performers, historians and cultural critics that consider every
aspect of Machine Dazzle s rich body of work.
A timely and expansive survey of a groundbreaking American art
movement that overturned aesthetic hierarchies in a riot of color
and ornamentation The Pattern and Decoration movement emerged in
the 1970s as an embrace of long-dismissed art forms associated with
the decorative. Pioneering artists such as Miriam Schapiro
(1923-2015), Joyce Kozloff (b. 1942), Robert Kushner (b. 1949), and
others appropriated patterns, frequently from non-Western
decorative arts, to produce intricate, often dizzying or gaudy
designs in media ranging from painting, sculpture, and collage to
ceramics, installation art, and performance. This dazzling book
showcases an astonishing array of works by more than 40 artists
from across the United States, examining the movement's defiant
adoption of art forms traditionally viewed as feminine,
craft-based, or otherwise inferior to fine art. In addition to
offering an overview of the Pattern and Decoration movement as it
is commonly recognized, this volume considers artists of the period
who are not typically associated with the movement. Rethinking the
significance of patterns and the decorative in postwar American
art, this panoramic view provides new insights into abstraction,
feminism, and installation art. Essays explore the movement's
feminist methods and values, including Miriam Schapiro's "femmage"
practice; its impact on contemporary abstract painting; and its
relationship to postmodern architecture and design. Artist
biographies, an exhibition history, and reprints of historically
significant writings further establish With Pleasure as the most
expansive publication on the subject. Published in association with
The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles Exhibition Schedule:
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (October 27, 2019-May 11,
2020) Hessel Museum of Art, Bard College (June 26-November 28,
2021)
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