Kellie Jones traces how the artists in L.A.'s black communities during the 1960s and 70s created a vibrant, productive, and engaged activist arts scene in the face of structural racism through the production of art works that spoke to African American migration and L.A.'s racial politics.
Kellie Jones Volgorde van de boeken (chronologisch)
Kellie Jones is een vooraanstaand kunsthistorica wiens werk zich richt op Afro-Amerikaanse kunstenaars en hun cruciale rol in de kunstbewegingen van de 20e eeuw. Ze onderzoekt hoe deze kunstenaars abstracte vormen en visuele talen vormden en ermee experimenteerden, waardoor ze de grenzen van de kunst verrijkten en verlegden. Haar analyses onthullen diepgaande verbanden tussen artistieke creatie, sociale context en persoonlijke identiteit, en bieden lezers nieuwe perspectieven op de geschiedenis en het heden van de moderne kunst. Het academische werk van Jones is essentieel voor het begrijpen van de evolutie en de impact van kunstenaars die vaak aan de rand van de mainstream stonden.
Basquiat
- 224bladzijden
- 8 uur lezen
Born in Brooklyn in 1960, Jean-Michel Basquiat lived to the age of only twenty-seven. His meteoric career as an artist had lasted no more than eight years. The one-time teenage runaway and high-school dropout was first included in a group exhibition in 1980, and almost immediately knew considerable success, enjoying his first solo exhibition just two years later. Basquiat quickly became a notable figure on the international art scene, mixing with dealers and artists. Among these was Andy Warhol, with whom he established a close working relationship.Borrowing from graffiti and street imagery, cartoons, mythology and religious symbolism, Basquiat's drawings and paintings explore issues of race and identity, providing social commentary that is both shrewdly observed and biting. Characterized by their intensely personal nature and the raw, almost aggressive handling of paint, these works have an enduring power to move and to confound.Viewing the heady world of the 1980s art scene from the beginning of a new century, we are able to look at Basquiat's achievements with increasing objectivity. Rather than explore his persona, this book aims to demonstrate the lasting quality of Basquiat's work itself, as well as its uniqueness within modern art. It strives not only to reevaluate his principal works, but also to explain Basquiat's continuing interest as a major painter.