Mark Bradford / Christopher Bedford.
"Mark Bradford is best known for dazzling, large-scale abstract paintings that examine the class-, race-, and gender-based economies that structure urban society in the United States. Gathering carefully chosen found and salvaged materials from the area surrounding his studio in the Leimert Park neighborhood of Los Angeles, Bradford engages in an intricate artistic process that involves both creation and destruction. His complex, fractured works address pressing political issues and the media's influence on contemporary society while cataloguing cultural change and the artist's personal responses to societal conditions. The first major book on this leading American artist, Mark Bradford features essays by distinguished authors who investigate how Bradford straddles the line between social critique and formal innovation, playing the two against one another to produce works of seduction and analysis. Topics include Bradford's debt to abstract expressionism, his relationship to the largely unknown history of twentieth-century abstraction by African American artists, his work as a public artist, and his interest in midcentury European collage and decollage practices."--BOOK JACKET.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780300163582
- ISBN: 0300163584
- Physical Description: 242 p. : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 32 cm.
- Publisher: Columbus, Ohio : Wexner Center for the Arts, The Ohio State University ; 2010.
Content descriptions
General Note: | Published to accompany the exhibition, Mark Bradford, held at: Wexner Center for the Arts, The Ohio State University, May 8-August 15, 2010; Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, November 19, 2010-March 13, 2011; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Summer 2011; Dallas Museum of Art, October 16, 2011-January 15, 2012; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, February 18-May 20, 2012. |
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 233-238) and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Director's Foreword / Sherri Geldin -- Curator's Introduction / Christopher Bedford -- Against Abstraction / Christopher Bedford -- Figure in the Carpet / Hilton Als -- "And what I assume you shall assume..." / Robert Storr -- Dynamism and Quiet Whispers: Conversations with Mark Bradford / Carol S. Eliel -- Move with Chance / Richard Shiff -- We Might as Well Be Brave: Conversations with Mark Bradford / Hamza Walker -- Somebody and Nobody / Katy Siegel -- Works in the Exhibition -- Checklist -- Biography -- Exhibition History / Katy M. Reis -- Bibliography / Katy M. Reis. |
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Subject: | Bradford, Mark, 1961- > Catalogs. Bradford, Mark, 1961- > Exhibitions. Art, Modern > 21st century > Exhibitions. |
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- 1 of 1 copy available at Emily Carr University of Art + Design.
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Circulation Modifier | Holdable? | Status | Due Date | Courses |
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Emily Carr University of Art + Design | N6537 .B6813 A4 2010 (Text) | 30223838 | Book | Volume hold | Available | - |