"Articulates the role black theatricality played in the radical energy of the sixties Black Performance on the Outskirts of the Left illustrates the black political ideas that radicalized the artistic endeavors of musicians, playwrights, and actors beginning in the 1960s. These ideas paved the way for imaginative models for social transformation through performance. Using the notion of excess--its transgression, multiplicity, and ambival ..."
"This book gathers for the first time an extensive selection of American artist--or -builder and demolisher, - as he describes himself--Mark Bradford's gorgeous, searing and heavily textured -merchant posters.- The original printed posters, collected by Bradford from around his Central Los Angeles neighborhood, are brightly colored local advertisements that target the area's vulnerable lower-income residents. For Bradford, they serve as ..."
Sexual Cultures Ser. Black Performance on the Outskirts of the Left : A History of the Impossible द्वारा MalikGaines Hardcover, 248 पन्ने, प्रकाशित 2017 द्वारा Nyu Press ISBN-13: 978-1-4798-3703-8, ISBN: 1-4798-3703-2
"Articulates the role black theatricality played in the radical energy of the sixties Black Performance on the Outskirts of the Left illustrates the black political ideas that radicalized the artistic endeavors of musicians, playwrights, and actors beginning in the 1960s. These ideas paved the way for imaginative models for social transformation through performance. Using the notion of excess--its transgression, multiplicity, and ambival ..."
"Published in conjunction with the exhibition Made in L.A. 2012, organized by the Hammer Museum in collaboration with LAX Art.This monograph honors the recipient of the Mohn Award 2012."
"Bringing together the work of sixty artists from in and around Los Angeles--many of them emerging or under-recognized--this collection of paintings, sculpture, installations, and stills from video and performance art offers a snapshot of the current trends and practices coming out of one of the world's most active and energetic art communities. The book features fifty-two visual artists and eight performance artists. Each artist is feat ..."
"Throughout the late 1980s and early 1990s, a radical cultural scene emerged in cities across the globe, finding expression in the galleries, nightclubs, and bedrooms of New York, London, Los Angeles, and Rome. In Lyle Ashton Harris: Today I Shall Judge Nothing That Occurs , the artist’s archive of 35 mm Ektachrome images are presented alongside journal entries and recollections from a host of artistic and cultural figures. It offe ..."
"Born in Riverside, California in 1937 and profoundly affected by World War II, Ed Bereal made significant contributions to assemblage and performance arts in Los Angeles during the early 1960s through 1980s. A consummate draftsman and object maker, Bereal found inspiration in such divergent sources as Norman Rockwell's illustrations and the tableaux of Ed Kienholz. His "political cartoons" are unique portraits of America filtered throug ..."
"Using "ordinary" movements, the Judson Dance Theater stripped dance of its theatrical conventionsTaking its name from the Judson Memorial Church, a socially engaged Protestant congregation in New York's Greenwich Village, Judson Dance Theater was organized as a series of open workshops from which its participants developed performances. Redefining the kinds of movement that could count as dance, the Judson participants―Trisha Brown, Luc ..."
""Females carry the marks, language and nuances of their culture more than the male. Anything that is desired or despised is always placed on the female body," states Kenyan-born, New York-based artist Wangechi Mutu, the subject of this highly anticipated first monograph. In recent years Mutu's work has become increasingly sought-after in the international art world, making high-profile appearances at the important art fairs and auctions ..."
"Beautifully illustrated. Chrstin Y. Kim and Malik Gaines in conversation with Kehinde Wiley. Essays by Krista A. Thompson, Tavia Nyong'o, and Robert Hobbs. 64p. Catalog for an exhibition of the same name at The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, July 17-October 26, 2008. Kehinde Wiley (b. 1977) is a Nigerian-American portrait painter, who is known for his highly his vibrant, large-scale, naturalistic paintings of African-Americans. He p ..."
"An absurdist provocateur and brilliant interventionist, Pope.L is a seditious force in contemporary American artPope.L is a consummate thinker and provocateur whose practice across multiple mediums―including painting, drawing, installation, sculpture, theater and video―utilizes abjection, humor, endurance, language and absurdity to confront and undermine rigid systems of belief. Published in conjunction with an exhibition at the Museum ..."
"From 1972 to 1991, Eleanor Antin (born 1935) created multiple personae of different genders, races, professions, historical contexts and geographic locations. The artist called this motley group--which includes a deposed king, an exiled film director, ambitious ballerinas and hard-working nurses--her "selves." The selves' manifestations were as diverse as their stories: some were embodied by Antin and captured in photographs and on vide ..."
"Photo by Far beyond the the Cockettes period, Sylvester continued to record
music into the eighties, reaching a broad audience with successful dance singles
and touring outside of the United States. His most widely distributed performance
was the song “You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real),” a disco anthem released in
1978 on the album Step II. The song reached the top 10 in. Peter Mintun,
courtesy of the Peter Mintun Papers at the San Fr ..."
"Twenty-First-Century Blue Boy / Melinda McCurdy -- Overrepresented : In Which L.A. Blue Boy Visits San Marino, a City Named After Europe's Oldest Sovereign State, Situated on a Tongva Village / Malik Gaines -- "A Van Dyke Habit" : Dressing ..."
"Widely regarded as one of the leading exponents of postminimalist art in the late 1970s, Charles Gaines (born 1944) is known primarily for his photographs, drawings and works on paper that investigate systems, cognition and language. Considered against the backdrop of the Black Arts Movement of the 1970s and the rise of multiculturalism in the 1980s, the works in Charles Gaines: Gridwork 1974-1989 are radical gestures. Eschewing overt d ..."
"Paul Mpagi Sepuya presents the work of one of the most prominent, up-and-coming photographers working today. Sepuya primarily makes studio photographs of friends, artists, collaborators, and himself, inviting viewers to consider the construction of subjectivity. He challenges and deconstructs traditional portraiture by way of collage, layering, fragmentation, mirror imagery, and the perspective of a black, queer gaze. In contrast to the ..."