Michael Ray Charles A Retrospective by CheriseSmith Hardcover, 296 Pages, Published 2020 by University Of Texas Press ISBN-13: 978-1-4773-1917-8, ISBN: 1-4773-1917-4
"Michael Ray Charles is the most comprehensive presentation yet of the work of an artist who rose to prominence in the 1990s for works that engaged American stereotypes of African Americans. With a background in advertising and an archivist’s inquisitiveness, Charles developed an artistic practice that made startling use of found images and offered critiques of the narratives they fostered. Immersing readers in the imagination of this da ..."
Enacting Others(124th Edition) Politics of Identity in Eleanor Antin, Nikki S. Lee, Adrian Piper, and Anna Deavere Smith by CheriseSmith Hardcover, 328 Pages, Published 2011 by Duke University Press Books ISBN-13: 978-0-8223-4782-8, ISBN: 0-8223-4782-2
"The artists Adrian Piper, Eleanor Antin, Anna Deavere Smith, and Nikki S. Lee have all crossed racial, ethnic, gender, and class boundaries in works that they have conceived and performed. Cherise Smith analyzes their complex engagements with issues of identity through close readings of a significant performance, or series of performances, by each artist. She examines Piper's public embodiment of the Mythic Being, a working-class black ..."
Enacting Others Politics of Identity in Eleanor Antin, Nikki S. Lee, Adrian Piper, and Anna Deavere Smith by CheriseSmith Paperback, 328 Pages, Published 2011 by Duke University Press Books ISBN-13: 978-0-8223-4799-6, ISBN: 0-8223-4799-7
"The artists Adrian Piper, Eleanor Antin, Anna Deavere Smith, and Nikki S. Lee have all crossed racial, ethnic, gender, and class boundaries in works that they have conceived and performed. Cherise Smith analyzes their complex engagements with issues of identity through close readings of a significant performance, or series of performances, by each artist. She examines Piper's public embodiment of the Mythic Being, a working-class black ..."
"Highlights African American artists represented at The Art Institute of Chicago. Provides an overview of concerns surrounding race in art, celebrates the achievements of a number of artists, and provides a multifaceted view of American art and culture, with four essays and a stunning portfolio of 29 images illustrated in color, with brief entries examining individual works. Distributed by the University of Washington Press. Lacks a subj ..."
"Beyond the Turnstile argues that museums are indispensable to civil society, especially in an era in which museums often are reduced to cultural businesses or "edu-tainment" sites. Is it inevitable that a museum's success will be measured solely by how many people come through the door and how much money they spend? The eminent contributors to this volume provide museum leaders with a different set of criteria for evaluating the success ..."
Collecting Black Studies(Illustrated) The Art Of Material Culture At The University Of Texas At Austin by Ragbir, Lise, Smith, Cherise 248 Pages, Published 2020 by Mu-University Of Texas Press ISBN-13: 978-1-4773-2005-1, ISBN: 1-4773-2005-9
"What began as an effort to prevent the neglect and potential loss of hundreds of African objects at the University of Texas at Austin has evolved into one of the most significant collections on campus."
"When a young black soldier at home on leave was found hanged in a Cairo, Illinois, police station in 1967, the black and white populations of this southern Illinois river city clashed violently, and the fury, once ignited, raged on for seven years. Jan Peterson Roddy has brought together the photographs of Preston Ewing Jr. with a wealth of collateral materials to document these turbulent years of racial strife.At the core of this book ..."
"Blending the personal with the political, Los Angeles–based artist Rodney McMillian (born 1969) has worked in a range of mediums and materials, including sculpture, painting, video, performance and immersive environments, to explore themes of class, gender, race, social history and culture. His work frequently incorporates “post-consumer” and found objects as well as techniques of interactivity and performativity. This volume surveys Mc ..."
"42:1 Spring 2009 Issue Features: talk Clarissa Sligh and Zanele Muholi in Conversation with Carla Williams portfolio Anthony Marchetti's Apartment for Rent Interview by Ivy Cooper portfolio David Gardner's Marking Our Place in the World by Doreen Schmid write White on Black: Power Relations in F. Holland Day's Ebony and Ivory by Cherise Smith interview Mark Dion Considered by Colette Copeland profile Barbara Mensch's South Street by Mel ..."
""New Thoughts on the Black Arts Movement, true to its title, provides a bracing reconsideration of how political vision blended with aesthetic production to form a watershed moment in African American cultural history. Exploring a rich array of media, genres, artists, and thinkers, these essays together constitute an impressively vigorous call for continued revaluation of the Black Arts Movement as a gritty, nuanced, and still-influenti ..."
Enacting Others Politics of Identity in Eleanor Antin, Nikki S. Lee, Adrian Piper, and Anna Deavere Smith by CheriseSmith Paperback, 339 Pages, Published 2011 ISBN-13: 978-0-8223-9308-5, ISBN: 0-8223-9308-5
"The artists Adrian Piper, Eleanor Antin, Anna Deavere Smith, and Nikki S. Lee have all crossed racial, ethnic, gender, and class boundaries in works that they have conceived and performed. Cherise Smith analyzes their complex engagements with issues of identity through close readings of a significant performance, or series of performances, by each artist. She examines Piper’s public embodiment of the Mythic Being, a working-class black ..."
Enacting Others Politics of Identity in Eleanor Antin, Nikki S. Lee, Adrian Piper, and Anna Deavere Smith by CheriseSmith Published 2011 ISBN-13: 978-1-283-25185-3, ISBN: 1-283-25185-X
Charles Gaines Palm Trees and Other Works (Hardback) by David Platzker, CheriseSmith, Charles Gaines Hardcover, 144 Pages, Published 2020 by Hauser & Wirth Publishers, United States ISBN-13: 978-3-906915-46-3, ISBN: 3-906915-46-8
"New work by pioneering conceptualist Charles Gaines, translating Southern California's palm trees into his signature luminous grid Featuring a group of new works in the Numbers and Trees series by Los Angeles artist Charles Gaines (born ..."
Enacting Others Politics of Identity in Eleanor Antin, Nikki S. Lee, Adrian Piper, and Anna Deavere Smith by CheriseSmith Digital, Published 2011 by Milliken ISBN-13: , ISBN: