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In the Black Fantastic assembles art and imagery from across the African diaspora that embraces ideas of the mythic and the speculative. Neither Afrofuturism nor Magic Realism, but inhabiting its own universe, In the Black Fantastic brings to life a cultural movement that conjures otherworldly visions out of the everyday Black experience and beyond looking at how speculative fictions in Black art and culture are boldly reimagining perspectives on race, gender, identity and the body in the 21st century. Transcending time, space and genre to span art, design, fashion architecture, film, literature and popular culture from African myth to future fantasies and beyond, this vital, timely and compelling publication is an expressive exploration of Black popular culture at its most wildly imaginative, artistically ambitious and politically urgent.
An unrivaled survey of contemporary art from the UK Taking place every five years, the British Art Showis the largest touring exhibition of contemporary art in the UK. This catalog features artworks from its ninth edition, by artists including Hurvin Anderson, Michael Armitage, Simeon Barclay, Heather Phillipson and Alberta Whittle.
This beautiful book is a collection of Georgia O'Keeffe's major drawings, done between 1915 and 1963. Each drawing is accompanied by the artist's comments, usually on how, why, where, or when she made the drawing. The book was originally published in 1974 in a signed, limited edition of one hundred copies, which has since become a collectors' item. O'Keeffe's text was her first writing intended for book publication. This new edition, including an updated bibliography, is intended, in Doris Bry's words, as "a tribute to O'Keeffe's drawings, an appreciation of her use of the written word, and a proof that a beautifully designed and printed book can be made available to a wide public at an affordable cost."
'On Display' is a large format collection of highlights from the Hayward Gallery's archive of exhibition posters. The archive acts as both a who's-who of contemporary art and a compilation of some of Britain's finest exhibition poster design.
One of the rising stars in the international art scene, Kader Attia (b. 1970) is a French-Algerian multidisciplinary artist whose powerful yet complex images, objects and installations examine the way cultures and histories have been constructed.Attia often plays with the vocabulary of museums and architecture to trouble the boundaries between different worlds, particularly Western and non-Western, through his use of re-appropriated and repaired everyday objects and ephemera, such as African masks, stapled paving cracks, assemblages of prostheses and photographs of surgical reconstruction.An in-depth interview with Hayward Gallery director Ralph Rugoff explores the artist's major themes, whi...
Curator David Elliott selects works from the new acquisitions of five British museums, investigating the international art that is being acquired and integrated into British collections over the last five years.Art from Elsewhere functions as an overview of a singular collection of contemporary art from around the globe which encompasses contemporary issues from the realities of global change to the question of failed utopias, exploitation and crisis in urban environments, as well as exploring new ideas of exchange and value for the common good.Featuring works from some of the most well-known contemporary artists working internationally today, Art from Elsewhere is a collection of works on paper, video, sculpture, painting and photography that offer intriguing views and insights of the world beyond our familiar surroundings.Published to accompany the Hayward Touring exhibition in the UK at GOMA, Glasgow, 24 October - 1 February 2014- 15, Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery, 14 February - 31 May 2015, MIMA, Middlesbrough, 19 June - 27 September 2015, Towner Art Gallery, Eastbourne, 23 January - 3 April 2016. More venues TBC.
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'The Human Factor: the Figure in Contemporary Sculpture' brings together the work of 25 leading international artists, in whose practice the human form plays a central role. Over the past 25 years, artists have reinvented figurative sculpture by looking back to earlier movements in art history as well as imagery from contemporary culture. Setting up dialogues with modernist as well as classical and archaic models of art, these artists engage and confront the question of how we represent the 'human' today. Eschewing concerns related to psychological portraiture, these artists use the figure as a catalyst for evoking far-ranging content, including subjects spanning political violence and morta...
The first contemporary survey of postwar British women sculptors from modernism to the YBA's This publication focuses on postwar British women sculptors, including Tracey Emin, Mona Hatoum, Barbara Hepworth, Kim Lim, Sarah Lucas, Cornelia Parker and Rachel Whiteread.
This book is published to accompany the first major UK retrospective of the visual art of the pioneering American composer and artist John Cage (1912ndash;1992). The use of chance operations, in particular the Chinese Book of Changes, or I Ching, was central to Cage's compositional method and his approach to his drawings, watercolours and prints, many of which are reproduced here for the first time. Cage's practice is explored in new interviews with key collaborators: printmaker Kathan Brown; Laura Kuhn, Director of the John Cage Trust; artist Ray Kass; and Julie Lazar, curator of Cage's 1992 'composition for a museum', Rolywholyover: A Circus. Extracts from a 1966 interview between Cage and...