Sanford Biggers

Author : Andrea Andersson,Antonio Sergio Bessa
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2020-04-03
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780300248647

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Sanford Biggers by Andrea Andersson,Antonio Sergio Bessa Pdf

“What I want to do is code-switch. To have there be layers of history and politics, but also this heady, arty stuff—inside jokes, black humor—that you might have to take a while to research if you want to really get it.”—Sanford Biggers Sanford Biggers (b. 1970) is a Harlem-based artist working in various media including painting, sculpture, video, and performance. He describes his practice as “code-switching”—mixing disparate elements to create layers of meaning—to account for his wide-ranging interests. This catalogue focuses on a series of repurposed quilts (many made in the 19th century) that embodies this interest in mixture. Informed by the significance of quilts to the Underground Railroad, Biggers transforms the quilts into new works using materials such as paint, tar, glitter, and charcoal to add his own layers of codes, whether they be historical, political, or purely artistic. Insightful essays survey Biggers’s career, his art in relation to music, and the history upon which the series draws. Also featured is a short yet powerful graphic essay by an award-winning illustrator that introduces the layered meanings inherent in the art and craft of quilting.

Author : Tavia Amolo Ochieng' Nyongó
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780816656127

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The Amalgamation Waltz by Tavia Amolo Ochieng' Nyongó Pdf

At a time when the idea of a postracial society has entered public discourse, The Amalgamation Waltz investigates the practices that conjoined blackness and whiteness in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Scrutinizing widely diverse texts--archival, musical, visual, and theatrical--Tavia Nyong'o traces the genealogy of racial hybridity, analyzing how key events in the nineteenth century spawned a debate about interracialism that lives on today.

Author : Lisa Melandri
Publisher : Contemporary Art Museum
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : ART
ISBN : 0997736402

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Sanford Biggers by Lisa Melandri Pdf

In fall 2018 CAM presented the first museum exhibition to focus on Sanford Biggers's BAM series. The catalog includes a foreword by CAM executive director Lisa Melandri and text by prominent critics and art historians Naomi Beckwith, Christa Clarke, and Khalil Gibran Muhammad. Exhibition: Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, USA (07.09.-30.12.2018), Chazen Museum of Art, Madison, USA (28.06.?22.09.2019) and Tufts University Art Galleries, Medford, USA (08.10.-15.12.2019).

Author : Elizabeth Carmel Hamilton
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2022-08-12
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781000627107

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Charting the Afrofuturist Imaginary in African American Art by Elizabeth Carmel Hamilton Pdf

This book examines Afrofuturism in African American art, focusing specifically on images of black women and how those images expand the discourse of representation in visual culture of the United States. This volume defines a visual language of Afrofuturism that includes materiality, temporality, and black liberation. Elizabeth Hamilton discusses the visual progenitors of Afrofuturism. In the artworks of Pierre Bennu, Sanford Biggers, Alison Saar, Mequitta Ahuja, Robert Pruitt, Renee Cox, Dawolu Jabari Anderson, Alma Thomas, and Harriet Powers, the fantastic narratives of Afrofuturism are uncovered through in-depth case studies. These case studies engage with Afrofuturism as a black feminist visual theory that helps to unburden the images of black women from the stereotypical visual scripts that are so common in contemporary visual culture of the United States. The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, visual studies, American literature, gender studies, popular culture, and African American studies.

Author : Kellie Jones
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2017-03-17
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780822374169

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South of Pico by Kellie Jones Pdf

Named a Best Art Book of 2017 by the New York Times and Artforum In South of Pico Kellie Jones explores how the artists in Los Angeles's black communities during the 1960s and 1970s created a vibrant, productive, and engaged activist arts scene in the face of structural racism. Emphasizing the importance of African American migration, as well as L.A.'s housing and employment politics, Jones shows how the work of black Angeleno artists such as Betye Saar, Charles White, Noah Purifoy, and Senga Nengudi spoke to the dislocation of migration, L.A.'s urban renewal, and restrictions on black mobility. Jones characterizes their works as modern migration narratives that look to the past to consider real and imagined futures. She also attends to these artists' relationships with gallery and museum culture and the establishment of black-owned arts spaces. With South of Pico, Jones expands the understanding of the histories of black arts and creativity in Los Angeles and beyond.

Author : Reynaldo Anderson,Charles E. Jones
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2015-12-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781498510516

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Afrofuturism 2.0 by Reynaldo Anderson,Charles E. Jones Pdf

The ideas and practices related to afrofuturism have existed for most of the 20th century, especially in the north American African diaspora community. After Mark Dery coined the word "afrofuturism" in 1993, Alondra Nelson as a member of an online forum, along with other participants, began to explore the initial terrain and intellectual underpinnings of the concept noting that “AfroFuturism has emerged as a term of convenience to describe analysis, criticism and cultural production that addresses the intersections between race and technology.” Afrofuturism 2.0: The Rise of Astroblackness represents a transition from previous ideas related to afrofuturism that were formed in the late 20th century around issues of the digital divide, music and literature. Afrofuturism 2.0 expands and broadens the discussion around the concept to include religion, architecture, communications, visual art, philosophy and reflects its current growth as an emerging global Pan African creative phenomenon.

Author : Nicolai Chen Nielsen,Nicolai Tillisch
Publisher : Greenleaf Book Group
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2021-01-05
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781734324877

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Return on Ambition by Nicolai Chen Nielsen,Nicolai Tillisch Pdf

How do you become highly successful—while living a fulfilling life and growing as a person? Most ambitious people struggle in at least one of these areas, yet they feel they don’t have the tools to improve their situation. Return on Ambition is the culmination of an ambitious effort to harness insights from recent research in psychology and neuroscience to help people pursue their ambitions more fruitfully. The result is a radical and holistic approach to achievement, growth, and well-being that includes: • The Return on Ambition Self-Assessment: instructive, clear measures of how well you are currently doing in getting the return you aspire to • The Trinity of Achievement, Growth, and Well-Being: research and wisdom that show that compromises in any of these three elements will cause declines in the others over time • The 7 Frenemies: descriptions of personal attributes that are your core strengths as an ambitious person, but that can also be the biggest obstacles to your success and fulfillment in life • The Return on Ambition Toolbox: 4 tools that will help you articulate and pursue your ambition, expand your self-awareness, and help you learn consciously • 4 Self-Coaching Sessions: instructions for 30–60-minute contemplations inspired by thought-provoking questions Nielsen and Tillisch have tried-and-tested experience inside the world of grand ambitions. This means that readers will find not only concepts brought to life with rich interviews and stories, but also two authors who inherently understand their audience. Nicolai Chen Nielsen is an associate partner at McKinsey & Company, where he advises clients on leadership development, culture change, and agile transformations. He is the co-author of Leadership at Scale and has published several articles on personal development. He is currently based in New York with his wife, Samira, and their two dogs, Napoleon and Caesar. Nicolai Tillisch works with Cultivating Leadership, the global coaching firm, and is a co-founder of Deliberate Development, the venture behind the StepUpYourDay software solution. He has been a consultant with McKinsey & Company and was an executive with DDB Worldwide, Hutchison, and Nokia Siemens Networks. Nicolai lives with his wife Ida and their children, Margaux and Axel, in Denmark.

Author : C. Spretnak
Publisher : Springer
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2014-10-22
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781137342577

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The Spiritual Dynamic in Modern Art by C. Spretnak Pdf

This book demonstrates that numerous prominent artists in every period of the modern era were expressing spiritual interests when they created celebrated works of art. This magisterial overview insightfully reveals the centrality of an often denied and misunderstood element in the cultural history of modern art.

Author : Ira Dworkin
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 469 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2017-04-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781469632728

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Congo Love Song by Ira Dworkin Pdf

In his 1903 hit "Congo Love Song," James Weldon Johnson recounts a sweet if seemingly generic romance between two young Africans. While the song's title may appear consistent with that narrative, it also invokes the site of King Leopold II of Belgium's brutal colonial regime at a time when African Americans were playing a central role in a growing Congo reform movement. In an era when popular vaudeville music frequently trafficked in racist language and imagery, "Congo Love Song" emerges as one example of the many ways that African American activists, intellectuals, and artists called attention to colonialism in Africa. In this book, Ira Dworkin examines black Americans' long cultural and political engagement with the Congo and its people. Through studies of George Washington Williams, Booker T. Washington, Pauline Hopkins, Langston Hughes, Malcolm X, and other figures, he brings to light a long-standing relationship that challenges familiar presumptions about African American commitments to Africa. Dworkin offers compelling new ways to understand how African American involvement in the Congo has helped shape anticolonialism, black aesthetics, and modern black nationalism.

Author : Carl Einstein
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2016-12-05
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9492027100

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Negro Sculpture by Carl Einstein Pdf

Negro Sculpture (1915) was the first critical response to African sculpture, challenging prejudices and misconceptions around this subject. It quickly became a crucial text for the European avant-garde and today remains indispensable to understanding the shift in discussion towards non-European art taking place at the time.

Author : Julia Ridley Smith
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2021-11
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780820368559

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The Sum of Trifles by Julia Ridley Smith Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : princeton alumni weekly
Page : 526 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Electronic
ISBN : PRNC:32101054617491

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Princeton Alumni Weekly by Anonim Pdf

Author : Nettrice R. Gaskins
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2021-08-10
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780262542661

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Techno-Vernacular Creativity and Innovation by Nettrice R. Gaskins Pdf

A novel approach to STEAM learning that engages students from historically marginalized communities in culturally relevant and inclusive maker education. The growing maker movement in education has become an integral part of both STEM and STEAM learning, tapping into the natural DIY inclinations of creative people as well as the educational power of inventing or making things. And yet African American, Latino/a American, and Indigenous people are underrepresented in maker culture and education. In this book, Nettrice Gaskins proposes a novel approach to STEAM learning that engages students from historically marginalized communities in culturally relevant and inclusive maker education. Techno-vernacular creativity (TVC) connects technical literacy, equity, and culture, encompassing creative innovations produced by ethnic groups that are often overlooked. TVC uses three main modes of activity: reappropriation, remixing, and improvisation. Gaskins looks at each of the three modes in turn, guiding readers from research into practice. Drawing on real-world examples, she shows how TVC creates dynamic learning environments where underrepresented ethnic students feel that they belong. Students who remix computationally, for instance, have larger toolkits of computational skills with which to connect cultural practices to STEAM subjects; reappropriation offers a way to navigate cultural repertoires; improvisation is firmly rooted in cultural and creative practices. Finally, Gaskins explores an equity-oriented approach that makes a distinction between conventional or dominant pedagogical approaches and culturally relevant or responsive making methods and practices. She describes TVC habits of mind and suggests methods of instructions and projects.

Author : Cat Gund,Catherine Gund
Publisher : Clarkson Potter
Page : 98 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2021-04-13
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780593231678

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Words of Art by Cat Gund,Catherine Gund Pdf

"Combine the classic party game Apples to Apples with a visit to the fabulous home of a wealthy collector and what do you get? Words of Art."--ARTnews A creative, collaborative card game for art lovers featuring 150 works from renowned collector and philanthropist Agnes Gund's never-before-published private art collection. - Perfect for Family Game Nights: Players feast their eyes and exercise their brains as they challenge friends and family to come up with the art card that best expresses the verbal prompt given by the designated Storyteller. - Expert authors: Created by daughter of famed art collector Agnes Gund and world-class design team Pentagram to excite everybody about contemporary art. - For fans of visually stunning games like Azul and Wingspan: Open your eyes to an astonishing collection of contemporary art by a diverse group of artists from around the globe. The cards feature art from a wide range of artists, from world famous (Jasper Johns, Romare Bearden, Warhol, Louise Bourgeois) to newer stars (Sarah Sze, Nick Cave, Teresita Fernandez). Over half the works are made by women artists and over a third by artists of color. - A different experience in each game: 150 different works of art to draw from creates new collections to explore every time you play. - Fun + Educational: Reinforces language and vocabulary development as well as creativity and imagination. - 4 or more players - Playing time 30 minutes to 1 hour - Contains 150 cards, sample prompt card, 16 tokens and rule book - Ages 8 and up

Author : Cheryl Finley
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2022-08-30
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780691241067

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Committed to Memory by Cheryl Finley Pdf

How an eighteenth-century engraving of a slave ship became a cultural icon of Black resistance, identity, and remembrance One of the most iconic images of slavery is a schematic wood engraving depicting the human cargo hold of a slave ship. First published by British abolitionists in 1788, it exposed this widespread commercial practice for what it really was—shocking, immoral, barbaric, unimaginable. Printed as handbills and broadsides, the image Cheryl Finley has termed the "slave ship icon" was easily reproduced, and by the end of the eighteenth century it was circulating by the tens of thousands around the Atlantic rim. Committed to Memory provides the first in-depth look at how this artifact of the fight against slavery became an enduring symbol of Black resistance, identity, and remembrance. Finley traces how the slave ship icon became a powerful tool in the hands of British and American abolitionists, and how its radical potential was rediscovered in the twentieth century by Black artists, activists, writers, filmmakers, and curators. Finley offers provocative new insights into the works of Amiri Baraka, Romare Bearden, Betye Saar, and many others. She demonstrates how the icon was transformed into poetry, literature, visual art, sculpture, performance, and film—and became a medium through which diasporic Africans have reasserted their common identity and memorialized their ancestors. Beautifully illustrated, Committed to Memory features works from around the world, taking readers from the United States and England to West Africa and the Caribbean. It shows how contemporary Black artists and their allies have used this iconic eighteenth-century engraving to reflect on the trauma of slavery and come to terms with its legacy.