Jones / Baraka EyeMinded

Living and Writing Contemporary Art
1. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-0-8223-9349-8
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 528 Seiten

Reihe: e-Duke books scholarly collection

Selections of writing by the influential art critic and curator Kellie Jones reveal her role in bringing attention to the work of African American, African, Latin American, and women artists.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Jones, Kellie

Baraka, Imamu Amiri

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte Kunstgeschichte: 20./21. Jahrhundert
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments ix

Introduction. "Art in the Family" 1

Part One. On Diaspora

1. EyeMinded: Commentary / Amiri Baraka 37

2. Preface to a Twenty Volume Suicide Note / Amiri Baraka 41

3. A.K.A. Saartjie: The Hottentot Venus in Context (Some Reflections and a Dialogue) 1998/2004 43

4. Tracey Rose: Postapartheid Playground 69

5. (Un)Seen and Overheard: Pictures by Loran Simpson 81

6. Life's Little Necessities: Installations by Women in the 1990s 125

7. Interview with Kcho 135

8. The Structure of Myth and the Potency of Magic 145

Part Two. In Visioning

9. Seeing Through: Commentary / Hettie Jones 159

10. In the Eye of the Beholder / Hettie Jones 163

11. To/From Los Angeles with Betye Saar 165

12. Crown Jewels 177

13. Dawoud Bey: Portraits in the Theater of Desire 187

14. Pat Ward Williams: Photography and Social/Personal History 207

15. Interview with Howardena Pindell 215

16: Eye-Minded: Martin Puryear 235

17. Large As Life: Contemporary Photography 241

18. An Interview with David Hammons 247

Part Three. Making Multiculturalism

19. Excuse Me While I Kiss the Sky & Then Fly and Touch Down: Commentary / Lisa Jones 263

20. How I Invented Multiculturalism / Lisa Jones 273

21. Lost in Translation: Jean-Michel in the (Re)Mix 277

22. In the Thick of It: David Hammons and Hair Culture in the 1970s 297

23. Domestic Prayer 305

24. Critical Curators: Interview with Kellie Jones 309

25. Poets of a New Style of Speak: Cuban Artists of This Generation 317

26. In Their Own Image 329

27. Tim Rollins and K.O.S.: What's Wrong with This Picture? 341

28. Blues to the Future 343

Part Four. Abstract Truths

29. Them There Eyes: On Connections and the Visual: Commentary / Guthrie P. Ramsey Jr. 349

30. Free Jazz and the Price of Black Musical Abstraction / Guthrie P. Ramsey Jr. 353

31. To the Max: Energy and Experimentation 363

32. It's Not Enough to Say "Black is Beautiful": Abstraction at the Whitney, 1969–1974 397

33. Black West: Thoughts on Art in Los Angeles 427

34. Brothers and Sisters 459

35. Bill T. Jones 469

36. Abstract Expressionism: The Missing Link 473

37. Norman Lewis: The Black Paintings 483

Über Autor(innen)

Kellie Jones is Associate Professor in the Department of Art History and Archaeology at Columbia University. She is the author of several books and exhibition catalogues, including Energy/Experimentation: Black Artists and Abstraction, 1964–1980; Basquiat; and (with Thelma Golden and Chrissie Iles) Lorna Simpson.