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Books by Franklin Sirmans
  | | Steve Wolfe on Paper(1st Edition) (Whitney Museum, New York Exhibition Catalogues) by Carter E. Foster, Franklin Sirmans, Steve Wolfe, Menil Collection Hardcover, 102 Pages, Published 2009 by Whitney Museum Of American Art ISBN-13: 978-0-300-15898-4, ISBN: 0-300-15898-X "Working in the tradition of trompe l'oeil, Steve Wolfe (b. 1955) creates careful replicas of classic books, worn album covers, and vinyl records, crafted from modeling paste, screenprints, drawings, and many other media. Wolfe’s reproductions embrace the tattered jackets, aged paper, and worn corners that come with the consumption of the culture within. These marks become records of time and memory representing the intersection of abstr ..." |
 | | NeoHooDoo(1st Edition) Art for a Forgotten Faith (Menil Collection) by Franklin Sirmans, Ishmael Reed, Jen Budney, Greg Tate, Quincy Troupe, Julia Herzberg, Robert Farris Thompson, Arthur Coleman Danto, Professor Arthur C. Danto, Aa.Vv, Menil Collection, Miami Art Museum Hardcover, 144 Pages, Published 2008 by The Menil Collection ISBN-13: 978-0-300-13418-6, ISBN: 0-300-13418-5 "NeoHooDoo, a phrase coined by the poet Ishmael Reed in 1970, celebrates the practice of rituals, folklore, and spirituality in the Americas beyond the scope of Christianity and organized religion. The endurance of these centuries-old traditions of magic and healing are the unique focus of this book. Exploring how spirituality influenced artists in the late 20th century and bringing together an intergenerational group of artists from Nor ..." |
 | | Asad Faulwell Les Femmes D'Alger by David Pagel, Franklin Sirmans, Sara Raza, Asad Faulwell, Zero Publishing Hardcover, 72 Pages, Published 2017 by Zero Plus Publishing ISBN-13: 978-1-937222-26-0, ISBN: 1-937222-26-8 "My work is focused on issues of colonization, faith, power and gender relations through an examination of the political history of the post-colonial Middle East. Specifically, I am currently engaged in a series of mixed media paintings focused on Algerian women who actively engaged in combat during the Algerian War of Independence. These women were all either killed in battle or captured by the French and subjected to imprisonment and t ..." |
 | | McArthur Binion Re:Mine by Lowery Stokes Sims, Franklin Sirmans, Artist Mcarthur Binion, Mary Sabbatino Hardcover, 80 Pages, Published 2015 by Black Dog Publishing ISBN-13: 978-1-910433-81-2, ISBN: 1-910433-81-0 "Over his forty-year career, artist McArthur Binion has developed a unique visual language through the fusion of Minimalism and personal narratives. This monograph, Binion's first, is produced in conjunction with the artist's inaugural solo show at a New York gallery and on the occasion of his exhibition Re: Mine at Galerie Lelong. Included in this catalogue are full-colour reproductions of works in the exhibition, as well as an intervie ..." |
 | | Vija Celmins Television and Disaster, 1964-1966 (Menil Collection) by Franklin Sirmans, Michelle White, Vija Celmins Hardcover, 64 Pages, Published 2011 by The Menil Collection ISBN-13: 978-0-300-16612-5, ISBN: 0-300-16612-5 "American artist Vija Celmins (b. 1938) is widely admired and respected for her sublime images of night skies and ocean waves. "Vija Celmins: Television and Disaster, 1964-1966" looks closely at Celmins's early work, which is deeply engaged with the Pop Art scene of 1960s Los Angeles. The authors argue convincingly for a better understanding of this body of work, which is not well known by contemporary audiences, both within Celmins's ov ..." |
 | | 30 Americans(3rd Edition) by Franklin Sirmans, Robert Carleton Hobbs, Michele Wallace, Glenn Ligon, Rubell Family Collection Hardcover, 232 Pages, Published 2009 by Rubell Family Collection ISBN-13: 978-0-9821195-1-8, ISBN: 0-9821195-1-8 "From its inception in the 1960s, the Rubell Collection has been able to boast a particularly fine range of African-American art. Recent New York exhibitions (such as the Harlem Studio Museum's Freestyle and Frequency, or the Renaissance Society's Black Is, Black Ain't) inspired the Rubell family to mount an exhibition of their holdings in this area, reproduced here in 30 Americans. With a late addition to this exhibition, there are in f ..." |
 | | Double Consciousness by Valerie Cassel Oliver, Marti Mayo, Sanford Biggers, Jennie Jones, David Mcgee, Rob Pruitt, Ellen Gallagher, Fred Wilson, David Hammons, Adrian Piper, Lorna Simpson, Contributor-Charles Gaines, Lyle Ashton Harris, Franklin Sirmans Paperback, 112 Pages, Published 2005 by Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston ISBN-13: 978-0-936080-92-5, ISBN: 0-936080-92-2 "Double Consciousness explores the conceptual art practices of African-American artists over the past 35 years, using as its underpinning, the "reflexive" nature of art-making which emerged with the avant-garde of the late 1960s. The exhibition chronicles conceptual art as practice of ideas as manifested through the use of everyday materials and objects--performance as action; interventions or critiques; as well as writings. It also focu ..." |
 | | Gary Simmons(1st Edition) by Gary Simmons, Franklin Sirmans, Contributor-Thelma Golden, Maurice Berger, Site Santa Fe Hardcover, 88 Pages, Published 2002 by Museum Of Contemporary Art, Chicago, And The Studio Museum, Harlem ISBN-13: 978-0-933856-72-1, ISBN: 0-933856-72-5 "From his child-sized Klan robes and rows of empty gilded sneakers to his recent photographs of uninhabited pedagogical spaces, Gary Simmons's work contains and invokes an absence as palpable and fraught with meaning as any presence. His best known work, expansive erasure drawings containing imagery addressing issues pertaining to race, pedagogy, and culture, are sketched on blackboards and walls and then rubbed and smudged by the artist ..." |
 | | 5 Cities, 41 Artists, Artadia 08/09 Artadia: The Fund for Art and Dialogue by Franklin Sirmans Paperback, 168 Pages, Published 2011 by Artadia ISBN-13: 978-0-9801934-5-9, ISBN: 0-9801934-5-1 |
 | | Mississippi Invitational by Franklin Sirmans Published 2011 ISBN-13: 978-1-887422-20-8, ISBN: 1-887422-20-X "The 2011 Mississippi Invitational exhibition is a survey of recent work by artists living and working in Mississippi. This catalogue documents the biennial exhibition, which was curated by Los Angeles-based Franklin Sirmans." |
 | | Jonmarc Edwards Self Contained Paintings by Franklin Sirmans, Jonmarc Edwards, Carl Berg Gallery 50 Pages, Published 2004 ISBN-13: 978-0-9725126-1-9, ISBN: 0-9725126-1-6 |
 | | Basquiat by Glenn O'brien, Franklin Sirmans, Richard D. Marshall, Jeffrey Deitch, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Tony Shafrazi Gallery, Peter M. Brant, Gerard Basquiat, Henry Geldzahler, Ted Joans, Keith Haring, Francesco Pellizi Hardcover, 336 Pages, Published 2000 by Tony Shafrazi Gallery ISBN-13: 978-1-891475-14-6, ISBN: 1-891475-14-2 "With reproductions of the artist's best work, and a large selection of never-before-seen photographs, this monograph is rounded off with essays and remembrances of Basquiat by critics, colleagues and friends. 200 photos, 175 in color." |
 | | Debra Priestly Preserves by June Kelly Gallery, Franklin. Sirmans Paperback, Published 2002 by June Kelly Gallery ISBN-13: 978-0-9706707-2-4, ISBN: 0-9706707-2-9 |
 | | Maurizio Cattelan(First Edition) Is There Life Before Death? by Franklin Sirmans, Artist Maurizio Cattelan, Cattelan Marizio Hardcover, 128 Pages, Published 2010 by The Menil Collection ISBN-13: 978-0-300-14688-2, ISBN: 0-300-14688-4 "The subversive, often jarringly direct sculptures of Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan (b. 1960) are acclaimed for their seemingly absurd juxtapositions and uncanny photorealism. Reflecting deep suspicions of religious and political authorities, these constructions serve as sardonic critiques of existing power structures, forcing the viewer to challenge his or her understanding of symbols, both iconic and commonplace. This publication fe ..." |
 | | McArthur Binion DNA (Hardback) by Diana Nawi, Grace Deveney, Michael Stone Richards, Franklin Sirmans, Mcarthur Binion Published 2021 by Delmonico Books Jan 2021 ISBN-13: 978-1-942884-82-8, ISBN: 1-942884-82-6 ""This book focuses on the works that comprise McArthur Binion's DNA series, produced between 2013 and 2020 and united by their underlying imagery and the language of the grid." |
 | | Walls of Change The Story of the Wynwood Walls by Jessica Goldman Srebnick, Franklin Sirmans, Martha Cooper, Hal Rubenstein, H. Rubsenstein Hardcover, 260 Pages, Published 2019 by Assouline ISBN-13: 978-1-61428-857-2, ISBN: 1-61428-857-7 "The story of Wynwood Walls is one of change through passion, art and community. When Tony Goldman stumbled upon the expanse of stock warehouse buildings in Miami’s Wynwood neighborhood, he saw a blank canvas. In 2009, the celebrated visionary set out to transform the area into a center for cultural exploration―with the help of the world’s most innovative and recognized street artists. Walls of Change: The Story of The Wynwood Walls is a ..." |
 | | Purvis Young(1st Edition) by Franklin Sirmans, Purvis Young, Rashid Johnson, Gean Moreno, César Trasobares, Barbara Young, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Mera Rubell, Juan Valadez Hardcover, 364 Pages, Published 2019 by Rubell Museum ISBN-13: 978-0-9911770-5-9, ISBN: 0-9911770-5-3 "This publication, the first comprehensive monograph on the paintings of Purvis Young (1943–2010), collects 254 works by the Miami-born African American artist known for his lyrical depictions of current and historical events. A self-educated artist who began drawing while incarcerated as a teenager, Young became widely known in Florida in the early 1970s with his large-scale murals consisting of paintings on scrap wood, metal and book p ..." |
 | | Radical Presence Black Performance in Contemporary Art by Naomi Beckwith, Yona Backer, Bill Arning, Valerie Cassel Oliver, Franklin Sirmans, Clifford Owens, Tavia Nyong'o Hardcover, 165 Pages, Published 2013 by Contemporary Arts Museum Houston ISBN-13: 978-1-933619-38-5, ISBN: 1-933619-38-4 ""Radical Presence" chronicles the emergence of black performance practices in contemporary art. Where hegemony has tended to define black performance art as an extension of theater, this publication provides a critical framework for discussing the history of black performance within the visual arts over the last 50 years. Over five decades of performance art practices by such artists as Benjamin Patterson, David Hammons, Senga Nengudi, ..." |
 | | Sterling Ruby(1st Edition) (Phaidon Contemporary Artists Series) by Jessica Morgan, Kate Fowle, Franklin Sirmans, Vv.Aa Paperback, 160 Pages, Published 2016 by Phaidon Press ISBN-13: 978-0-7148-7043-4, ISBN: 0-7148-7043-9 "A comprehensive study of one of the most versatile artists and acute observers of our time, who fuses art and fashion American artist Sterling Ruby works in a large variety of media, including sculpture, ceramics, painting, and video art. Ruby is influenced by a wide range of sources, including marginalized societies, maximum-security prisons, modernist architecture, artefacts and antiquities, graffiti, waste and consumption, and urban ..." |
 | | Freestyle(1st Edition) The Studio Museum In Harlem by Thelma Golden, Franklin Sirmans, Hazma Walker, Christine Y. Kim, Studio Museum Paperback, 90 Pages, Published 2001 by Studio Museum In Harlem ISBN-13: 978-0-942949-21-6, ISBN: 0-942949-21-8 "The first in The Studio Museum in Harlem's F series, this seminal catalogue defined the post-black art movement." |
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