Blind Field by TumeloMosaka, Irene V. Small Paperback, 148 Pages, Published 2013 by Krannert Art Museum ISBN-13: 978-1-883015-46-6, ISBN: 1-883015-46-4
"Brazil has long been called the "country of the future." This book documents an exhibition that examines Brazil from the perspective of blindness as a critical category, a metaphor for the way in which the obstruction of perception can illuminate alternate modes of knowledge and experience. It features twenty emerging and mid-career artists working in Brazil who offer a critical perspective on processes of transition within contemporary ..."
"In the last thirty years of the Soviet Communist project, Viktor Koretskyâs art struggled to solve an enduring riddle: how to ensure or restore Communismâs moral health through the production of a distinctively Communist vision. In this sense Koretskyâs art demonstrates what an avant-garde late Communist artâ would have looked like if we had ever seen it mature. Most striking of all, Koretsky was pioneering the visual languages ..."
"A Fiction of Authenticity presents seminal moments for challenging prevailing notions about interculturalism and postcolonial subjects. This full-color catalog features specially commissioned work by 11 contemporary artists of African descent--each of whom lives and works in either the United States or Europe and examines the invented idea of an "authentic" Africa. Each of these artists has positioned themselves outside the frame of Afr ..."
"Documents the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art’s exhibition of work by Guyana-born contemporary artist Andrew Lyght and provides new scholarship contextualizing Lyght’s work within the history and culture of Guyana and modern art.This is a venture into the departures, encounters, discoveries, and transgressions that inform Andrew Lyght’s artistic practice and life. While living and working for decades in various cultural contexts such as Guy ..."
"Richly illustrated. Jean Ulrick Desert, Maxence Denis, Annalee Davis, Jose Tony Cruz, Christopher Cozier, Colectivo Shampoo, Keisha Castello, Charles Campbell, Alex Burke, Terry BOddie and more... 9x12", soft cover, 223 pages"
"Photography and video are powerful tools for shaping perception and effecting change, as is convincingly portrayed through the images in this catalogue. Featuring the works of sixteen South African photographers and video artists from 1950 to the present, the catalogue was conceived to accompany the exhibition of the same name at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. The cultural and political turbulence of South Africa has lent particular ..."
"... fast forward, play 1 Steve Biko, I Write What I Like: Selected Writings, ed.
Aelred Stubbs (Oxford: Heinemann, 1987), 42. 2 The Natives' Land Act of 1913,
the foundation of racial segregation in South Africa, decreed that only certain
areas (less than 10 percent of the country) could be owned by Africans. 3
Ladysmith Black Mambazo popularized this musical style through collaboration
with Paul Simon on his 1986 album Graceland. ..."
""Psycho Buildings: Artists Take On Architecture" will mark the 40th anniversary of The Hayward - one of the world's most architecturally unique exhibition venues. It brings together the work of artists - including Atelier Bow-Wow, Michael Beutler, Los Carpinteros, Gelitin, Mike Nelson, Ernesto Neto, Tobias Putrih, Tomas Saraceno, Do-Ho Suh and Rachel Whiteread - who create habitat-like structures and architectural environments that are ..."
""Infinite Island: Contemporary Caribbean Art" presents a diverse, exciting selection of recent work in painting, installation, photography, prints, drawings, video, and sculpture by forty-five emerging and established Caribbean artists who live and work in the region as well as abroad. The title "Infinite Island", alluding to Columbus' voyages and the beginnings of colonialism, evokes the contradictions, complexities, and multiple persp ..."
Open House(1st Edition) Working in Brooklyn by Charlotta Kotik, Tumelo Kotik Mosaka Hardcover, 240 Pages, Published 2004 by Brooklyn Museum Bookshop ISBN-13: 978-0-87273-150-9, ISBN: 0-87273-150-2
"Open House: Working in Brooklyn
Since the 1970s, Brooklyn has experienced an artistic renaissance as emerging and mid-career artists have increasingly moved to the borough. Attracted by the availability of large, affordable spaces, this community now includes hundreds of artists and more than fifty flourishing art galleries in such areas as Williamsburg, Greenpoint, D.U.M.B.O, and Fort Greene.
Open House: Working in Brooklyn is the fir ..."
"The global market of modern and contemporary African art performed strongly in 2016 with a sell-through rate of 72% in a morose context of the international art market and the slowing down of African economies. This segment proved to be an exception. The huge direct and indirect investments, mainly in western countries as well as new structural initiatives in Africa ranging between US$ 300 million to US$ 400 million in the last five yea ..."
"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 ..."