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Kehinde Wiley: A New Republic
Connie H. Choi
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Description for Kehinde Wiley: A New Republic
Hardback. Filled with reproductions of Kehinde Wiley's bold, colourful, and large-scale work, this book encompasses the artist's various series of paintings as well as his sculptural work - all of which boldly explore ideas about race, power, and tradition. Num Pages: 192 pages, 100. BIC Classification: ACXJ; AGB; AGC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 260 x 320 x 22. Weight in Grams: 1614.
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 Mickalene Thomas, Yinka Shonibare, Kerry James Marshall and Sanford Biggers - who are reworking art history and questioning its depictions of people of colour. This volume surveys Wiley's career from 2001 to the present. It includes early portraits of the men Wiley observed on Harlem's streets, and which laid the foundation for his acclaimed reworkings of Old Master paintings by Titian, van Dyke, Manet and others, in which he replaces historical subjects with young African American men in contemporary attire: puffy jackets, sneakers, hoodies and baseball caps. Also included is a generous selection from Wiley's ongoing World Stage project; several of his enormous Down paintings; striking male portrait busts in bronze; and examples from the artist's new series of stained-glass windows. Accompanying the illustrations are essays that introduce readers to the arc of Wiley's career, its critical reception, and ongoing evolution. Published in association with the Brooklyn Museum, New York.
Product Details
Publisher
Prestel
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Weight
1583g
Number of Pages
192
Place of Publication
Munich, Germany
ISBN
9783791354309
SKU
V9783791354309
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99-10
About Connie H. Choi
Eugenie Tsai is the John and Barbara Vogelstein Curator of Contemporary Art at the Brooklyn Museum in New York. Previously she was Director of Curatorial Affairs at the PS1 Contemporary Art Center in Queens, New York, and Associate Director for Curatorial Affairs for New York's Whitney Museum of American Art. Connie H. Choi is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Art History and Archaeology at Columbia University. She has contributed to several books, including Now Dig This!: Art and Black Los Angeles 1960-1980 (Prestel).
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