Barkley L. Hendricks

Name: Barkley L. Hendricks
Brand: Thames and Hudson (Australia) Pty Ltd
SKU: 9788857241487
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The third book of a five-volume series exploring Barkley L. Hendricks' art, focusing on his basketball paintings. This volume highlights how basketball inspired Hendricks artistically and served as a ground for experimenting with shapes and forms of the playing court. Presented together for the first time, these works reveal an integral part of Hendricks' output.

Produced in partnership with Skira and Jack Shainman Gallery, this book is part of an ambitious publishing project, offering in-depth essays from leading scholars and based on an extensive recovery of the artist’s archive.
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Recommended for readers interested in contemporary art, postmodern portraiture, and the cultural intersections of sport and visual expression.

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The third book of the five-volume publication project on Hendricks, famed for his postmodern portraiture of Black Americans.

The third book of the five-volume publication project presents the artist's basketball paintings. The publication highlights how basketball was a vital inspiration for Hendricks' art, as well as a way to experiment with the different shapes and forms of the playing court. For the first time, they are grouped together in a dedicated volume.

Skira and Jack Shainman Gallery have partnered to realise an unprecedented book project dedicated to the artist Barkley L. Hendricks (1945-2017). The project consists of four booklets, each of which provides an in-depth exploration of a body of work integral to the artist's output (Works on Paper, Landscape Paintings, Basketball Paintings, Photography), in addition to a comprehensive 300-page monograph which traces the artist's evolution for the entirety of his career.

The project is tied to an extensive and never-accomplished-before recovery of the artist's archive. Each book will contain essays by different scholars that are leading international players. Each booklet allows for a detailed, oriented study of key bodies of works.

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Martha Schwendener of the New York Times praises the book as a celebration of both sport and community. She highlights paintings like "Still Life #5" (1968), noting their sly humour and their interplay with geometric abstraction and religious art, enriching the experience of Hendricks’ work.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9788857241487

Publisher: Skira

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 03 September 2020

Country: Italy

Imprint: Skira

Illustration: 50 Illustrations, color

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 165.0mm

Height: 237.0mm

Weight: 520g

Pages: 96

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Arts & Culture Jack Shainman Gallery Non-Fiction

About the Author

Barkley L. Hendricks (1945-2017) is an artist profoundly integral and pivotal to art and African-American culture. Barkley L. Hendricks was a painter and photographer best known for his realist and post-modern portraits of people of color living in urban areas beginning in the 1960s and 70s and continuing to the present.

Hendricks was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and lived and worked in New London, Connecticut. He earned both his BFA and MFA from Yale University and was the subject of a large-scale traveling exhibition, Barkley L. Hendricks: Birth of the Cool, organized by Trevor Schoonmaker at the Nasher Museum of Art, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina (2008), which traveled to the Studio Museum in Harlem, New York (2008-2009), Santa Monica Museum of Art, California (2009), Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia (2009-2010) and the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Texas (2010).

His work is included in numerous public collections both within the United States and abroad, such as The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY; The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY; The National Portrait Gallery, Washington, DC; The National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC; The Tate Modern, London, UK; Studio Museum, Harlem, NY; Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA; Rubell Family Collection, Miami, FL; Nasher Museum of Art, Durham, NC; Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH; and the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA.Jack Shainman Gallery has represented Hendricks since 2009. His solo exhibitions at Jack Shainman Gallery include Heart Hands Eyes Mind (2013), Barkley L. Hendricks (2016) and Them Changes (2018).