Format:
237 Seiten
ISBN:
9781636810560
Content:
Conversation with Henry Taylor / Hamza Walker -- Henry Taylor: B Side / Bennett Simpson -- Henry Taylor's Radical Aesthetics / Charles Gaines -- Exempt from Oblivion / Frances Stark -- Oh Henry! / Karon Davis -- She's Thinking about Romance / Harmony Holiday -- The Ancient Rain / Bob Kaufman -- Yr-neh / Walter Price -- L.A. Love Cry / Wanda Coleman.
Content:
"Surveying 30 years of Henry Taylor's work in painting, sculpture and installation, this comprehensive monograph celebrates a Los Angeles artist widely appreciated for his unique aesthetic, social vision and freewheeling experimentation. Taylor's portraits and allegorical tableaux-populated by friends, family members, strangers on the street, athletic stars and entertainers-display flashes of familiarity in their seemingly brash compositions, which nonetheless linger in the imagination with uncanny detail. In his paintings on cigarette packs, cereal boxes and other found supports, Taylor brings his primary medium into the realm of common culture. Similarly, the artist's installations often recode the forms and symbolisms of found materials (bleach bottles, push brooms) to play upon art historical tropes and modernism's appropriations of African or African American culture. Taken together, the various strands of Taylor's practice display a deep observation of Black life in America at the turn of the century, while also inviting a humanist fellowship that pushes outward from the particular"--
Note:
This book is published on the occasion of the exhibition "Henry Taylor - B Side", organized by ... The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. Exhibition itinerary: The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, November 6, 2022-April 30, 2023; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, October 4, 2023-January 28, 2024
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Includes bibliographical references
Language:
English
Subjects:
Art History
Keywords:
Taylor, Henry 1958-
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Malerei
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Zeichnung
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Bildband
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Ausstellungskatalog
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Ausstellungskatalog
Author information:
Gaines, Charles 1944-
Author information:
Coleman, Wanda 1946-2013
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