"EN MAS' is one of the first publications to give serious scholarly attention to contemporary art works considering carnival in the 21st century, filling a gap in two decades of exhibitions of contemporary Caribbean art that did not explicitly address carnival as an artistic practice. A hybrid exhibition catalogue and academic reader with a lively carnivalesque feel, it presents nine newly commissioned artist projects by John Beadle, Cha ..."
"This limited-edition volume of 1,000 copies accompanies South African artist Robin Rhode's first solo survey exhibition at a U.S. museum, Ohio's Wexner Center. Raised in Cape Town and Johannesburg, Rhode has gained recognition with his playful photography, video and installation works that often reference graffiti culture and combine drawing and performance. Rhode's focus is on the tensions between the liberating energies of the individ ..."
"As the accompanying publication to the largest exhibition of contemporary art ever assembled in the U.S., the "Prospect.1 New Orleans" catalogue is one of the most sought-after art books of 2008-09. Featuring new illustrated essays on New Orleans and its place in twenty-first century America by Prospect.1 organizer Dan Cameron, art historian Barbara Bloemink, journalist Lolis Eric Elie and curator Claire Tancons, the book also includes ..."
"This is the first monograph on the procession and installation practice of Trinidadian-born, Japan based artist Marlon Griffith. With essays by Emelie Chhangur, Chanzo Greenidge, Gabriel Levine, and Claire Tancons, Symbols of Endurance explores Griffith’s unique contribution to contemporary art through a detailed analysis of the artist’s formative engagement with vernacular tradition, popular and festive forms of civic celebration, and ..."
" Marlon Griffith: Symbols of Endurance covers the recent artistic practice of Trinidadian-born artist Marlon Griffith, whose work derives its form (and to an extent its process) from the performative, participatory and ephemeral characteristics that derive from the Trinidad and Tobago Carnival. Griffith’s work is based upon a reciprocal dialogue between Mas” (Masquerade, the artistic component of the Trinidad Carnival) and contemporary ..."
Look for Me All Around You(1st Edition) Sharjah Biennial 14: Leaving the Echo Chamber by ClaireTancons, Hannah Black Paperback, 270 Pages, Published 2019 by Prestel ISBN-13: 978-3-7913-5851-2, ISBN: 3-7913-5851-0
"Accompanying Sharjah Biennial 14, this volume provides a generative and global reading on performance.Accompanying Look for Me All Around You, one of the three sections of Sharjah Biennial 14, this book charts a non-chronological time-space (dis-)continuum between the Americas and the Emirates, building unexpected trans-oceanic and multi-diasporic bridges for a global history. This volume provides interpretative, discursive, poetic, pol ..."
"The notion of play has intrigued thinkers throughout history. Interpreted as excessive, illusive, or unproductive, play and imagination permeate cultural spheres and are now emerging as critical ingredients in todays artistic and social discourse. Emphasising productivity through spontaneity, risk, freedom and pleasure, play and imagination motivate research and experimentation within the arts, as well as cultural change. Reflected here ..."
"Beatrice von Bismarck is a professor of art history and visual studies at the
Academy of Visual Arts (HGB) Leipzig where she initiated ... Her most recent
publications include Cultures of the Curatorial (2012), Timing: On the temporal
Dimension of ... In 2014, she published the book Matt Mullican's Pure Projection
Landscapes."
"Nya numret av Glänta följer karnevalens rörelser i tid och rum, från det medeltida Europa, via Västindien till de samtida karnevalerna i Skandinavien. Det karnevaliska diskuteras och visualiseras i relation till politiskt motstånd, multikulturalism, evenemangskultur och stadens offentliga rum. Numret tar sin utgångspunkt i det nyligen återupptäckta arkivet över Göteborgskarnevalen (1982–1993), och flera av bidragen handlar om (det göteb ..."
"Artists and writers explore Sylvia Wynter's postcolonial dismantling of origin myths and cosmologies According to the influential Jamaican writer and cultural theorist Sylvia Wynter, "we humans cannot pre-exist our origin myths any more ..."
"Filled with reproductions of Kehinde Wiley's bold, colorful, and monumental work, this book encompasses the artist's various series of paintings as well as his sculptural work--which boldly explore ideas about race, power, and tradition. Celebrated for his classically styled paintings that depict African American men in heroic poses, Kehinde Wiley is among the expanding ranks of prominent black artists--such as Sanford Biggers, Yinka Sh ..."