Author: Scott Rothkopf
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780300168471
Category : African American artists
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Published on the occasion of an exhibition held at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, Mar. 10-June 5, 2011, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, Calif. Oct. 23, 2011-Jan. 22, 2012 and the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, Tex. Feb.-May 2012.
Glenn Ligon
Author: Scott Rothkopf
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780300168471
Category : African American artists
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Published on the occasion of an exhibition held at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, Mar. 10-June 5, 2011, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, Calif. Oct. 23, 2011-Jan. 22, 2012 and the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, Tex. Feb.-May 2012.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780300168471
Category : African American artists
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Published on the occasion of an exhibition held at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, Mar. 10-June 5, 2011, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, Calif. Oct. 23, 2011-Jan. 22, 2012 and the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, Tex. Feb.-May 2012.
Glenn Ligon
Author: Gregg Bordowitz
Publisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 1846381940
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 92
Book Description
An illustrated examination of Glenn Ligon's iconic Untitled (I Am a Man) (1988)—a quotation, an appropriated text turned into an artifact. The iconic work Untitled (I Am a Man) (1988) by the important contemporary American artist Glenn Ligon is a quotation, an appropriated text turned into an artifact. The National Gallery of Art in Washington presents the work as a “representation—a signifier—of the actual signs carried by 1,300 striking African American sanitation workers in Memphis, made famous by Ernest Withers' 1968 photographs.” In this illustrated study of the work, Gregg Bordowitz takes the National Gallery's presentation as his starting point, considering the museum's juxtaposition of Untitled (I Am a Man) and the ca. 1935 sculpture, Schoolteacher, by William Edmondson, and the relation of the two terms, “markers” and “signs.” After closely examining the canvas itself, its textures, brushwork, and structure, Bordowitz presents a theoretical framework that draws on the work of American philosopher Charles Sanders Peirce and his theory of Firstness, Secondness, and Thirdness. He makes a case for Thirdness as a function, operation, or law of meaning-making, not limited by the gender, age, ethnicity, race, class, or personal history of the viewer. Bordowitz goes on to examine Ligon's work in terms of the representation of self, race, and gender, focusing on three series: Profile Series (1990–91), Narratives, and Runaways (both 1993). He cites such historical figures as Sojourner Truth and her famous 1851 speech, “Ain't I a Woman?” as well as influences ranging from Bo Diddley's 1955 song, “I'm a Man” to the cultural theories of Stuart Hall.
Publisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 1846381940
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 92
Book Description
An illustrated examination of Glenn Ligon's iconic Untitled (I Am a Man) (1988)—a quotation, an appropriated text turned into an artifact. The iconic work Untitled (I Am a Man) (1988) by the important contemporary American artist Glenn Ligon is a quotation, an appropriated text turned into an artifact. The National Gallery of Art in Washington presents the work as a “representation—a signifier—of the actual signs carried by 1,300 striking African American sanitation workers in Memphis, made famous by Ernest Withers' 1968 photographs.” In this illustrated study of the work, Gregg Bordowitz takes the National Gallery's presentation as his starting point, considering the museum's juxtaposition of Untitled (I Am a Man) and the ca. 1935 sculpture, Schoolteacher, by William Edmondson, and the relation of the two terms, “markers” and “signs.” After closely examining the canvas itself, its textures, brushwork, and structure, Bordowitz presents a theoretical framework that draws on the work of American philosopher Charles Sanders Peirce and his theory of Firstness, Secondness, and Thirdness. He makes a case for Thirdness as a function, operation, or law of meaning-making, not limited by the gender, age, ethnicity, race, class, or personal history of the viewer. Bordowitz goes on to examine Ligon's work in terms of the representation of self, race, and gender, focusing on three series: Profile Series (1990–91), Narratives, and Runaways (both 1993). He cites such historical figures as Sojourner Truth and her famous 1851 speech, “Ain't I a Woman?” as well as influences ranging from Bo Diddley's 1955 song, “I'm a Man” to the cultural theories of Stuart Hall.
Glenn Ligon
Author: Glenn Ligon
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 206
Book Description
Text by Darby English, Wayne Baerwaldt, Huey Copeland, Mark Nash, Wayne Koestenbaum. Interview by Stephen Andrews.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 206
Book Description
Text by Darby English, Wayne Baerwaldt, Huey Copeland, Mark Nash, Wayne Koestenbaum. Interview by Stephen Andrews.
Black Book
Author: Robert Mapplethorpe
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780312083021
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 124
Book Description
An astonishing photographic study of black men today from the acclaimed portrait photographer.
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780312083021
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 124
Book Description
An astonishing photographic study of black men today from the acclaimed portrait photographer.
Coloring
Author: Glenn Ligon
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : African Americans in art
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : African Americans in art
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
Glenn Ligon
Author: Glenn Ligon
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 76
Book Description
The theme of autobiography in Ligon's work is examined in light of a comprehensive study of his body of work. Ligon's sophisticated expressions of the issues of race and gay desire emerge clearly and lucidly.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 76
Book Description
The theme of autobiography in Ligon's work is examined in light of a comprehensive study of his body of work. Ligon's sophisticated expressions of the issues of race and gay desire emerge clearly and lucidly.
Glenn Ligon
Author: Megan Ratner
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781905464999
Category : Serigraphy, American
Languages : en
Pages : 46
Book Description
Internationally recognized artist Glenn Ligon explores in a combination artist book and exhibition document the continuing relevance of Steve Reichs early taped speech work, Come Out (1966), in a series of new monumental screen-printed paintings. Echoing Reichs repetitive two-channel work sampling the voice of David Hamm, one of the badly beaten Harlem Six wrongly accused of murdering a shopkeeper, Ligon overlays the words come out to show them on canvas to form densely layered landscapes of text. Like Reichs work in which the intelligibility of the words breaks apart with repetition, Ligons superimposed texts reflect on the shifting effects of a visual continuum. Featured is an essay by film critic Megan Ratner examining the relationship between the paintings, the phrase and the history of the Harlem Six.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781905464999
Category : Serigraphy, American
Languages : en
Pages : 46
Book Description
Internationally recognized artist Glenn Ligon explores in a combination artist book and exhibition document the continuing relevance of Steve Reichs early taped speech work, Come Out (1966), in a series of new monumental screen-printed paintings. Echoing Reichs repetitive two-channel work sampling the voice of David Hamm, one of the badly beaten Harlem Six wrongly accused of murdering a shopkeeper, Ligon overlays the words come out to show them on canvas to form densely layered landscapes of text. Like Reichs work in which the intelligibility of the words breaks apart with repetition, Ligons superimposed texts reflect on the shifting effects of a visual continuum. Featured is an essay by film critic Megan Ratner examining the relationship between the paintings, the phrase and the history of the Harlem Six.
A People on the Cover
Author: Glenn Ligon
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781909932067
Category : African Americans and mass media
Languages : en
Pages : 139
Book Description
Somewhere between a scholarly study, a picture book, and an artist's book, Glenn Ligon's book documents shifts in the social, cultural, and political history of African-Americans in the post-World-War-II era by gathering together images and graphics on the covers of books written by and about them.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781909932067
Category : African Americans and mass media
Languages : en
Pages : 139
Book Description
Somewhere between a scholarly study, a picture book, and an artist's book, Glenn Ligon's book documents shifts in the social, cultural, and political history of African-Americans in the post-World-War-II era by gathering together images and graphics on the covers of books written by and about them.
Glenn Ligon: Encounters and Collisions
Author:
Publisher: Tate
ISBN: 9781849763561
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Glenn Ligon (b. 1960) is one of the most significant American artists of his generation. Much of his work relates to abstract cxpressionism and minimalist painting, remixing formal characteristics to highlight the cultural and social histories of the time, such as the civil rights movement. This new book brings together artworks and other material Ligon references or work with which he shares certain affinities. The book illustrates works by Ligon and other artists--including Chris Ofili, Willem de Kooning, Jackson Pollock, Lorna Simpson, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, and Jasper Johns--accompanied by texts by Ligon, Francesco Manacorda, Alex Farquharson, and Gregg Bordowitz, and an anthology of some 20 texts selected/excerpted by Ligon.
Publisher: Tate
ISBN: 9781849763561
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Glenn Ligon (b. 1960) is one of the most significant American artists of his generation. Much of his work relates to abstract cxpressionism and minimalist painting, remixing formal characteristics to highlight the cultural and social histories of the time, such as the civil rights movement. This new book brings together artworks and other material Ligon references or work with which he shares certain affinities. The book illustrates works by Ligon and other artists--including Chris Ofili, Willem de Kooning, Jackson Pollock, Lorna Simpson, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, and Jasper Johns--accompanied by texts by Ligon, Francesco Manacorda, Alex Farquharson, and Gregg Bordowitz, and an anthology of some 20 texts selected/excerpted by Ligon.
Yourself in the World
Author: Glenn Ligon
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780300169096
Category : African American artists
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Published to coincide with the exhibition held at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, Mar. 10-June 5, 2011, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Oct. 23, 2011-Jan. 22, 2012, and the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Feb.-May 2012.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780300169096
Category : African American artists
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Published to coincide with the exhibition held at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, Mar. 10-June 5, 2011, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Oct. 23, 2011-Jan. 22, 2012, and the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Feb.-May 2012.