Blues for smoke [accompanies the exhibition ... at The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, October 20, 2012 - January 7, 2013 and at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, February 7 - April 28, 2013]
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| Format: | UnknownFormat |
| Sprache: | eng |
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Los Angeles, Calif.
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
2012
Munich ; London ; New York Prestel |
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Geschichte 1900-2000
> Geschichte 1950-2012
> Geschichte
> Arts, Modern
> Blues (Music) in art
> ART / Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions / General
> ART / History / Contemporary (1945-)
> Kunst
> Film
> Literatur
> Blues
> Ausstellungskatalog
> Museum of Contemporary Art / Geffen Contemporary
> Whitney Museum of American Art
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Tag hinzufügen | Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references -- "Covering nearly half a century and including the works of some 50 artists in a wide variety of media, this book looks beyond ideas of musical category to identify the blues as a visual and cultural idiom that has informed multiple generations of artists--from Romare Bearden and William Eggleston to David Hammons and David Simon, creator of the television series The Wire. Generously illustrated with paintings, drawings, photographs, sculpture, installation, and video stills, and containing a wide range of critical writing, poetry, and fiction, the catalog explores topics central to the blues--from articulations of daily life, modes of abstraction and repetition, and self-performance to ecstatic and cathartic expression and metaphors of memory and the archive. Both scholarly and unique, this reimagining of all things "blues" will draw audiences from across cultural and racial boundaries as it celebrates a uniquely American idiom that has made it |
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| Beschreibung: | 222 S. zahlr. Ill. |
| ISBN: | 9783791352534 978-3-7913-5253-4 |