Grief and Grievance

Grief and Grievance
Author :
Publisher : Phaidon Press
Total Pages : 0
Release :
ISBN-10 : 1838661298
ISBN-13 : 9781838661298
Rating : 4/5 (98 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Grief and Grievance by : Okwui Enwezor

Download or read book Grief and Grievance written by Okwui Enwezor and published by Phaidon Press. This book was released on 2020 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A timely and urgent exploration into the ways artists have grappled with race and grief in modern America, conceived by the great curator Okwui Enwezor Featuring works by more than 30 artists and writings by leading scholars and art historians, this book - and its accompanying exhibition, both conceived by the late, legendary curator Okwui Enwezor - gives voice to artists addressing concepts of mourning, commemoration, and loss and considers their engagement with the social movements, from Civil Rights to Black Lives Matter, that black grief has galvanized. Artists included: Terry Adkins, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Kevin Beasley, Dawoud Bey, Mark Bradford, Garrett Bradley, Melvin Edwards, LaToya Ruby Frazier, Charles Gaines, Theaster Gates, Ellen Gallagher, Arthur Jafa, Daniel LaRue Johnson, Rashid Johnson, Jennie C. Jones, Kahlil Joseph, Deana Lawson, Simone Leigh, Glenn Ligon, Kerry James Marshall, Julie Mehretu, Tiona Nekkia McClodden, Okwui Okpokwasili, Adam Pendleton, Julia Phillips, Howardena Pindell, Cameron Rowland, Lorna Simpson, Sable Elyse Smith, Tyshawn Sorey, Diamond Stingily, Henry Taylor, Hank Willis Thomas, Kara Walker, Nari Ward, Carrie Mae Weems, and Jack Whitten. Essays by Elizabeth Alexander, Naomi Beckwith, Judith Butler, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Massimiliano Gioni, Saidiya Hartman, Juliet Hooker, Glenn Ligon, Mark Nash, Claudia Rankine, and Christina Sharpe.


Grief and Grievance Related Books

Grief and Grievance
Language: en
Pages: 0
Authors: Okwui Enwezor
Categories: Art
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020 - Publisher: Phaidon Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

A timely and urgent exploration into the ways artists have grappled with race and grief in modern America, conceived by the great curator Okwui Enwezor Featurin
Mourning in America
Language: en
Pages: 241
Authors: David W. McIvor
Categories: Political Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-10-20 - Publisher: Cornell University Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Recent years have brought public mourning to the heart of American politics, as exemplified by the spread and power of the Black Lives Matter movement, which ha
Left-Wing Melancholia
Language: en
Pages: 312
Authors: Enzo Traverso
Categories: Philosophy
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-01-10 - Publisher: Columbia University Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

The fall of the Berlin Wall marked the end of the Cold War but also the rise of a melancholic vision of history as a series of losses. For the political left, t
Gender, Race, and Mourning in American Modernism
Language: en
Pages: 227
Authors: Greg Forter
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-04-14 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

American modernist writers' engagement with changing ideas of gender and race often took the form of a struggle against increasingly inflexible categories. Greg
American Afterlife
Language: en
Pages: 232
Authors: Kate Sweeney
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-03-15 - Publisher: University of Georgia Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

An award-winning writer explores the patchwork American cultural history of grieving the departed. One family inters their matriarch’s ashes on the floor of t