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Mickalene Thomas

By Kellie Jones and Roxane Gay
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Mickalene Thomas is the first comprehensive monograph on the acclaimed contemporary artist. Over two decades, Thomas has created a diverse body of work including painting, collage, photography, video, and immersive installations. Her art explores themes of aspiration, self-image, gender, and race while challenging traditional ideas of beauty, sexuality, and celebrity. This book, developed in collaboration with Thomas, surveys the breadth and depth of her extraordinary career.
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This book is ideal for readers interested in contemporary art, cultural studies, and discussions around gender and race. It appeals to art students, critics, and enthusiasts who appreciate diverse and powerful visual narratives.

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The first comprehensive monograph on Mickalene Thomas, a key figure in 21st-century contemporary art

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The first comprehensive monograph on Mickalene Thomas, a key figure in 21st-century contemporary art.

Over the past two decades, Mickalene Thomas's critically acclaimed and extensive body of work has spanned painting, collage, photography, video, and immersive installations that have become her signature. With influences ranging from nineteenth-century painting to popular culture, Thomas's art articulates a complex and empowering vision of aspiration and self-image through gender and race while expanding on and subverting common definitions of beauty, sexuality, and celebrity.

Mickalene Thomas, the book, made in close collaboration with Thomas, is the first to survey the breadth of her extraordinary career.

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'A powerful retrospective of one of the most versatile and influential creatives today.' – ELLE Decor

'Insightful texts and rich reproductions of Thomas's efforts.' – ARTnews

'Thomas's first comprehensive monograph ... shows how the artist, a queer, Black woman, engages deeply with gender and race.' – Publishers Weekly

'Exquisite.' – Cool Hunting

'Beautiful.' – Chicago Tribune

'Thomas crafts a world of aspiration and confidence.' – LA Weekly

'This is an important and accessible work and will be relished by followers of contemporary art.' – Library Journal

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780714878317

Publisher: Phaidon Press Ltd

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 25 November 2021

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Phaidon Press Ltd

Contributors:

  • By Mickalene Thomas

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 29.0mm

Width: 238.0mm

Height: 305.0mm

Weight: 1902g

Pages: 288

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Arts & Culture Kellie Jones Non-Fiction Roxane Gay

About the Author

Roxane Gay is a writer, memoirist, and contributor to the New York Times. She is the author of several books, including Hunger and Bad Feminist.

Kellie Jones is Professor in Art History and Archaeology at the Institute for Research in African American Studies at Columbia. She has authored several books and curated exhibitions including Now Dig This!: Art and Black Los Angeles, 1960-1980.

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