Rashid Johnson

Author : Rashid Johnson
Publisher : Hauser & Wirth Publishers/Aspen Art Press
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2021-02-23
Category : Art
ISBN : 0934324913

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Rashid Johnson: The Hikers by Rashid Johnson Pdf

A massive compendium on the multimedia art of Rashid Johnson, tackling themes of Black history, literature, philosophy and material culture Rashid Johnson (born 1977) is renowned for challenging the assumptions often present in collective notions of Blackness. Based in New York, Johnson is among an influential group of American artists whose work employs a wide range of materials and images to explore themes of art history, literature, philosophy, and personal and cultural identity. After beginning his career working primarily in photography, Johnson has expanded into a variety of mediums, including text work, sculptural objects, installation, painting, drawing, collage, film, performance and choreography. Drawing on a dizzying array of historical, cultural, literary and musical references, Johnson ultimately invites audiences to find connections to their own lives. Rashid Johnson: The Hikers presents works from his highly acclaimed shows at the Aspen Art Museum, Museo Tamayo and Hauser & Wirth. This dynamic and unprecedented collection of his work features a conversation between Rashid Johnson and choreographer Claudia Schreier, as well as essays by curators Heidi Zuckerman and Manuela Moscoso.

Author : Julie Rodrigues Widholm
Publisher : Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : African American artists
ISBN : 0933856938

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Rashid Johnson by Julie Rodrigues Widholm Pdf

This exhibition catalogue shows the artist working in a range of mediaincluding photography, painting, sculpture, and video.

Author : Rashid Johnson,Claire Gilman,Jeremy Sigler,Cheryl Johnson-Odim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0942324935

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Rashid Johnson by Rashid Johnson,Claire Gilman,Jeremy Sigler,Cheryl Johnson-Odim Pdf

Universally accessible and employing common visual tropes such as the monochrome and the grid, Johnson's work is also self-referential, making specific allusion to his upbringing in Chicago and the Afro-centric values of his parents. In Rashid Johnson: Anxious Men, the artist creates a site-specific installation in the Drawing Room gallery. The core of the exhibition is a new series of black-soap-and-wax-on-tile portraits that Johnson calls his "anxious men." Executed by digging into a waxy surface, they enact a kind of drawing through erasure and represent the first time Johnson has worked figuratively outside of photography or film, and on such a small scale. Whereas Johnson's previous work has taken a more cerebral approach to questions of race and political identity, the drawn portraits confront the viewer with a visceral immediacy. The portraits are set within a multi-sensory environment that includes wallpaper featuring a photograph of the artist's father from the year Johnson was born, and an audio sound track comprised of Melvin Van Peebles's "Love, That's America," a song that originally appeared in Peebles's 1970 film Watermelon Man and that was recently pressed into service by the Occupy Wall Street movement. In this way, the exhibition, documented in this volume, creates an immersive space that implicates not only the artist but also the viewer in its interrogation of selfhood and identity.

Author : Kevin Rashid Johnson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1894946391

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Defying the Tomb by Kevin Rashid Johnson Pdf

Correspondence between two imprisoned Black revolutionaries, smuggled out from behind the walls.

Author : Kevin Rashid Johnson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : African American artists
ISBN : 1894946766

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Panther Vision by Kevin Rashid Johnson Pdf

Kevin "Rashid" Johnson entered the u.s. prison system over 20 years ago, one of countless young Black men consigned to lifelong incarceration by the post-civil right policies of anti-Black genocide. While behind bars, Rashid encountered the ideas of revolutionary Black nationalism and Marxism-Leninism, and of the people and organizations who have used and developed these ideas in previous generations, foremost amongst these being the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense. Along with other Black/New Afrikan prisoners, Rashid helped found the New Afrikan Black Panther Party-Prison Chapter, while using both his artwork and his political writings as avenues to advance the cause of liberation for all. Here, collected in book form for the first time, are Rashid's core writings as Minister of Defense of the NABPP-PC. Subjects addressed include the differences between anarchism and Marxism-Leninsm, the legacy of the Black Panther Party, the timeliness of Huey P. Newton's concept of revolutionary intercommunalism, the science of dialictical and historical materialsm, the practice of democratic centralism, as well as current events ranging from u.s. imperialist designs in Africa to national oppression of New Afrikans within u.s. borders. And much more.

Author : Rashid Johnson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : African American artists
ISBN : UCSD:31822036419323

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Rashid Johnson by Rashid Johnson Pdf

Jellybeans Morning, Noon and Night is about two brothers who share a love of jellybeans! No matter what flavor, those boys just love jellybeans-all of them. If they had it their way, they would eat jellybeans for breakfast, jellybeans for lunch, and jellybeans for dinner. And that's exactly what they plan to do! It is a brilliant plan, isn't it? Written by Maggie Pajak and illustrated by Marni Backer, Jellybeans Morning Noon & Night is a delicious story filled with a sweet lesson of moderation and a savory message to parents to let your kids (sometimes) figure things out on their own. But more importantly, it is sprinkled with a few giggle-filled moments that both you and your kids will enjoy.

Author : Sharon Coplan Hurowitz,Amanda Benchley
Publisher : Phaidon Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Art
ISBN : 183866128X

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Open Studio by Sharon Coplan Hurowitz,Amanda Benchley Pdf

The book invites you into the private studios of seventeen of the most celebrated contemporary artists as they draw, paint, sculpt, or design an original project for readers to recreate at home. It demystifies the studio practice through the fun, accessible format of D.I.Y., leading you step-by-step through each artist's project. Eight inserts specially designed by the artists for completing their projects - from stencils to cut-outs - are included. The result can inspire people everywhere to blaze their own creative trails

Author : Omar Kholeif,Ntozake Shange
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0989159892

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Rashid Johnson by Omar Kholeif,Ntozake Shange Pdf

Author : Lawrence Weiner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Art
ISBN : STANFORD:36105131730207

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Something to Put Something on by Lawrence Weiner Pdf

SOMETHING TO PUT SOMETHING ON was completed as a mock-up nearly ten years ago: a book posing serious questions concerning art, generously endowed with its maker's celebrated wordly wit, and intended for young readers. Weiner thus commenced a long search for a place to put what he had made - in this case, a publisher who would embrace a work that expands the scope of children's literature as well as the audience for artist books. All hope was nearly lost until one year ago, the mock-up was brought out and dusted off one final time. We at Steidl were delighted to make a place for this work and to undertake the first printed edition. It is appropriately the foundational book, the very impetus, of our Little Steidl program. Though the ideas Weiner contemplates lead back to youthful days, there is no familiar once upon a time to be found on these pages. Neither story book, nor autobiography, nor reference book, SOMETHING TO PUT SOMETHING ON is a questioning book, both forthright and intriguing. Weiner wields his red, orange, and blue letterforms to take up the question of a human being's relationship to objects and teases the reader into looking at a table in an entirely new light.

Author : Rashid Johnson
Publisher : Hodder Christian Books
Page : 62 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1898461449

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Rashid Johnson by Rashid Johnson Pdf

Published in an edition of 800 copies by the South London Gallery, this catalogue was produced on the occasion of Rashid Johnson's exhibition, Shelter, 28 September 2012 - 25 November 2012.For his first solo exhibition in London, New York-based artist Rashid Johnsonpresents an entirely new body of work in the South London Gallery's main space. Inspired by the idea of an imagined society in which psychotherapy is a freely available drop-in service, Johnson's installation of large-scale paintings, hanging plants, Persian rugs and four wooden day beds questions established definitions of the art object and its limitations, as well as therelationship between individual and shared cultural experience. The book features an essay by Tom Morton.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Distanz
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : African American art
ISBN : 3954761688

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Rashid Johnson by Anonim Pdf

In 2015, the American artist Rashid Johnson (b. Chicago, Ill., 1977; lives and works in New York, N.Y.) installed a publicly accessible sculpture on the tracks. Commissioned by the High Line Art program, it consisted of a shelf-like black metal construction that housed a number of bright yellow busts. Blocks presents comprehensive photographic documentation of the eponymous work's evolving interaction with the lush vegetation into which it intervened.

Author : Eleanor Nairne
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2021-05-04
Category : Art
ISBN : 9783791359793

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Jean Dubuffet by Eleanor Nairne Pdf

Featuring newly commissioned essays and photography of rarely exhibited works, this book highlights the radicalism of Jean Dubuffet, who was one of the most provocative voices of the postwar avant-garde. In 1940s occupied Paris, Jean Dubuffet began to champion a progressive vision for art; one that rejected classical notions of beauty in favor of a more visceral aesthetic. Taking a pioneering approach to materiality and technique, the artist variously blended paint with sand, glass, tar, coal dust, and string. At the same time, he began to assemble a collection of Art Brut--work that was made outside the academic tradition of fine art--even visiting psychiatric wards from 1945 to collect work by patients. This book features texts from leading scholars and is accompanied by images that illuminate Dubuffet's attempts to move beyond the artistic expectations of his time. The works are grouped into six thematic sections that focus on specific series, from his graffiti-inspired "Walls" and his notorious portrait series, "People are Much More Beautiful Than They Think" to the "Corps de dames," a controversial series of "female" landscapes, and his anthropomorphic sculptures, "Little Statues of Precarious Life." Exquisitely produced, this celebration of Dubuffet's work embraces his world view that art is for everyone, not just the elite.

Author : Gwenn-Aël Lynn,Debra Riley Parr
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2021-06-14
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781000399646

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Olfactory Art and the Political in an Age of Resistance by Gwenn-Aël Lynn,Debra Riley Parr Pdf

This book claims a political value for olfactory artworks by situating them squarely in the contemporary moment of various forms of political resistance. Each chapter presents the current research and art practices of an international group of artists and writers from the United States, Canada, France, Germany, Switzerland, Thailand, Sweden, and the Netherlands. The book brings together new thinking on the potential for olfactory art to critique and produce modes of engagement that challenge the still-powerful hegemonic realities of the twenty-first century, particularly the dominance of vision as opposed to other sensory modalities. The book will be of interest to scholars working in contemporary art, art history, visual culture, olfactory studies, performance studies, and politics of activism.

Author : Shawn Michelle Smith
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2020-01-03
Category : Photography
ISBN : 9781478005537

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Photographic Returns by Shawn Michelle Smith Pdf

In Photographic Returns Shawn Michelle Smith traces how historical moments of racial crisis come to be known photographically and how the past continues to inhabit, punctuate, and transform the present through the photographic medium in contemporary art. Smith engages photographs by Rashid Johnson, Sally Mann, Deborah Luster, Lorna Simpson, Jason Lazarus, Carrie Mae Weems, Taryn Simon, and Dawoud Bey, among others. Each of these artists turns to the past—whether by using nineteenth-century techniques to produce images or by re-creating iconic historic photographs—as a way to use history to negotiate the present and to call attention to the unfinished political project of racial justice in the United States. By interrogating their use of photography to recall, revise, and amplify the relationship between racial politics of the past and present, Smith locates a temporal recursivity that is intrinsic to photography, in which images return to haunt the viewer and prompt reflection on the present and an imagination of a more just future.

Author : Laura J. Hoptman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Art
ISBN : 0870709127

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The Forever Now by Laura J. Hoptman Pdf

Timeless Painting presents the work of 17 contemporary painters whose works reflect a singular approach that is peculiarly of our time: they are a-temporal, a term coined by William Gibson and Bruce Sterling, the originators of the cyberpunk aesthetic. A-temporality or timelessness manifests itself in painting as an ahistoric free-for-all, where contemporaneity as an indicator of new form is nowhere to be found, and all eras co-exist. Published to accompany an exhibition at The Museum of Modern Art that explores the impact of this cultural condition on contemporary painting, this publication features work by an international roster of artists including Joe Bradley, Kerstin Brätsch, Matt Connors, Nicole Eisenman, Mark Grotjahn, Charline von Heyl, , Julie Mehretu, Oscar Murillo, Laura Owens and Josh Smith, among others. An overview essay by curator Laura Hoptman is divided into thematic chapters that explore topics such as re-animation and reenactment, recontextualization, 'Zombie' painting, and the concomitant 'Frankenstein approach', which describes a process of stitching together pieces of the history of painting to create a work of art that would be dead but for its juxtaposed parts, all working in association with one another to propel the work into life.