Otobong Nkanga

Otobong Nkanga
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Total Pages : 0
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ISBN-10 : 1849767114
ISBN-13 : 9781849767118
Rating : 4/5 (14 Downloads)

Synopsis Otobong Nkanga by : Otobong Nkanga

"The exhibition explores the politics of land and its relationship to the body, and histories of land acquisition and ownership. It will feature new works created especially for the Tate St Ives exhibition, including a wall painting and sculpture, alongside well known works such as The Weight of Scars 2015, Tsumeb Fragments 2015, and From Where I Stand 2015, as well as several paintings and photographs which will be shown publicly for the first time"--Tate St Ives website

Otobong Nkanga: "No Be Today Story O!"

Otobong Nkanga:
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Total Pages : 38
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ISBN-10 : 908041705X
ISBN-13 : 9789080417052
Rating : 4/5 (5X Downloads)

Synopsis Otobong Nkanga: "No Be Today Story O!" by :

Filtered memories are a series of drawings based on selected memories of the artist. Nkanga filters and selects moments in her childhood and teenage years that had a certain impact on her life. These memories refer to the loss of innocence, home, security and of loved ones. The titles of the drawings are of important significance that help the reader to place each event in a specific place and time. Experiences and memory are frozen in time, giving a glimpse into the artist's personal experiences, both in her homeland and Europe. Social consequences I, II are a series of drawings, which can be seen in relation to the Filtered memories series; they reveal concepts behind ideas of labour, domesticity, home, belonging and possession. These drawings have a surreal, yet diagrammatic feeling, clearly illustrating cause-and-effect scenarios, using everyday symbolic objects.

140 Artists' Ideas for Planet Earth

140 Artists' Ideas for Planet Earth
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Publisher : Penguin UK
Total Pages : 253
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ISBN-10 : 9780141995328
ISBN-13 : 0141995327
Rating : 4/5 (28 Downloads)

Synopsis 140 Artists' Ideas for Planet Earth by : Hans Ulrich Obrist

Through 140 drawings, thought experiments, recipes, activist instructions, gardening ideas, insurgences and personal revolutions, artists who spend their lives thinking outside the box guide you to a new worldview; where you and the planet are one. Everything here is new. We invite you to rip out pages, to hang them up at home, to draw and scribble, to cook, to meditate, to take the book to your nearest green space. Featuring Olafur Eliasson, Etel Adnan, Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Jane Fonda & Swoon, Judy Chicago, Black Quantum Futurism Collective, Vivienne Westwood, Cauleen Smith, Marina Abramovic, Karrabing Film Collective, and many more.

Witch Hunt

Witch Hunt
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Total Pages : 224
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ISBN-10 : 1942884753
ISBN-13 : 9781942884750
Rating : 4/5 (53 Downloads)

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Sixteen international artists at the forefront of feminism This book focuses on a selection of midcareer international artists whose oeuvres are informed by the legacies of feminist thought. Each artist adds to the feminist discourse, whether by reclaiming women's marginalized creative histories, using gender discrimination as a method of institutional critique or creating alternate research methodologies that confront patriarchal norms. The book includes sculpture, painting, video, installation and performance art, and features lesser-known projects or entirely new commissions that recast sociopolitical realities throughout the world. In addition to extensive illustrations, the book includes essays by Anne Ellegood and Connie Butler, curators and art historians whose practices have also been dedicated to a discussion of women's rights. Artists include: Leonor Antunes, Yael Bartana, Pauline Boudry / Renate Lorenz, Candice Breitz, Shu Lea Cheang, Minerva Cuevas, Vaginal Davis, Every Ocean Hughes, Bouchra Khalili, Laura Lima, Teresa Margolles, Otobong Nkanga, Okwui Okpokwasili, Lara Schnitger and Beverly Semmes.

Allan Kaprow

Allan Kaprow
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Publisher : Getty Publications
Total Pages : 380
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ISBN-10 : 089236890X
ISBN-13 : 9780892368907
Rating : 4/5 (0X Downloads)

Synopsis Allan Kaprow by : Allan Kaprow

Documents artist Allan Keprow's life and work through an extensive chronology that visually portrays his evolution from painter to environmental artist to inventor of the Happening and the Activity.

Africa Remix

Africa Remix
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Total Pages : 232
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ISBN-10 : UOM:39015059269624
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Rating : 4/5 (24 Downloads)

Synopsis Africa Remix by : Simon Njami

In 2005, The Hayward Presents The Largest exhibition of contemporary African art ever seen in Europe. An international collaboration with major galleries in Dusseldorf, Paris and Tokyo, this ground-breaking exhibition and book bring together works in every medium by more than 70 artists. From Cairo to Cape Town, African artists from across the continent and from the diaspora are taking part in this spectacular survey of African creativity. This richly illustrated book includes colour reproductions and information on each of the artists.

Noah Davis

Noah Davis
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Publisher : David Zwirner Books
Total Pages : 88
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ISBN-10 : 9781644230374
ISBN-13 : 1644230372
Rating : 4/5 (74 Downloads)

Synopsis Noah Davis by : Noah Davis

Providing a crucial record of the painter Noah Davis’s extraordinary oeuvre, this monograph tells the story of a brilliant artist and cultural force through the eyes of his friends and collaborators. Despite his exceedingly premature death at the age of 32, Davis’s paintings have deeply influenced the rise of figurative and representational painting in the twenty-first century. Davis’s emotionally charged work places him firmly in the canon of great American painting. Stirring, elusive, and attuned to the history of painting, his compositions infuse scenes from everyday life with a magical realist atmosphere and contain traces of his abiding interest in artists such as Marlene Dumas, Kerry James Marshall, Fairfield Porter, and Luc Tuymans. This catalogue is born of the unique relationship between Davis and Helen Molesworth, whom Davis entrusted to be the curator of his work. It is published on the occasion of the 2020 exhibition at David Zwirner, New York, which travels to The Underground Museum in Los Angeles, a space that Davis founded with his wife, artist Karon Davis. In her introduction, catalogue essay, and interviews with important figures in Davis’s life, Molesworth shows how the artist’s generosity and sense of responsibility galvanized a uniquely supportive artistic community, culture, and vision. Together with color illustrations and archival photographs, the book features heartfelt testimonials that unfold in the intimate yet expansive spirit of studio visits with people close to him.

Women's Work

Women's Work
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Publisher : Frances Lincoln
Total Pages : 226
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ISBN-10 : 9780711280465
ISBN-13 : 0711280460
Rating : 4/5 (65 Downloads)

Synopsis Women's Work by : Ferren Gipson

This powerful and insightful work offers a bold celebration of the innovative, brilliant artists reclaiming the idea of ‘women’s work’. In the history of western art, decorative and applied arts – including textiles and ceramics – have been separated from the ‘high arts’ of painting and sculpture and deemed to be more suitable for women. Artists began to reclaim and redefine these materials and methods, energizing them with expressions of identity and imagination. Women’s Work tells the story of this radical change, highlighting some of the modern and contemporary artists who dared to defy this hierarchy and who, through, experimentation and invention, transformed their medium. The work of these women has helped underscore the ongoing value of these art forms within the history of art, championing ‘women’s work’ as powerful mediums worthy of celebration. With biographical entries on each artist featured, as well as beautiful images of their artworks, Women's Work raises up the work of these visionary and groundbreaking artists, telling their stories and examining their artistic legacies.

Materials of Culture

Materials of Culture
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Publisher : transcript Verlag
Total Pages : 271
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ISBN-10 : 9783839466971
ISBN-13 : 3839466970
Rating : 4/5 (71 Downloads)

Synopsis Materials of Culture by : Liedeke Plate

While the so-called material turn in the humanities and the social sciences has inspired a vibrant discourse on objects, things, and the concept of materiality in general, less attention has been paid to materials, particularly in cultural studies scholarship. With each of its chapters taking a particular material as its point of departure, this volume offers a palette of fresh approaches to materials within the realm of cultural studies. The contributors call for a materials-based perspective on culture, which has become all the more pertinent in times of climate change, energy crisis, conflict, migration, and the lingering coronavirus pandemic.