Carrie Mae Weems: Reflections for now

Name: Carrie Mae Weems: Reflections for now
Brand: Thames and Hudson (Australia) Pty Ltd
SKU: 9783775755559
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Carrie Mae Weems: Reflections for now delves into the extraordinary work of one of America's most influential contemporary artists. Through photography, film, installation, performance, and textiles, Weems challenges traditional narratives on race, gender, and class. This book accompanies her major exhibitions at the Barbican Art Gallery in London and the Kunstmuseum Basel, offering a unique collection of her writings, lectures, and conversations. It explores themes of power, desire, social justice, representation, and the impact of architecture and media on culture.
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This book is ideal for readers interested in contemporary art, cultural studies, social justice, and the intersection of identity and visual expression. It will particularly appeal to students, artists, and anyone keen to engage deeply with thought-provoking discussions around power and representation.

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POWER, DESIRE, SOCIAL JUSTICE, REPRESENTATION, BEAUTY, AND COMPASSION

Widely considered to be one of the most influential American living artists, Carrie Mae Weems has developed a practice celebrated for her exploration of cultural identity, power dynamics, desire, intimacy and social justice through a body of work that challenges the prevailing representations of race, gender, and class.

Defined by the use of photography, installation, film, performance and textile, her remarkably diverse and radical practice questions dominant ideologies and historical narratives created and disseminated within science, architecture, and mass media.

Published in the context of her solo exhibitions at Barbican Art Gallery London and Kunstmuseum Basel, Reflections for Now brings together a selection of Weems' own writings, lectures, and conversations for the first time, providing personal insights into themes such as the consequences of power, artistic appropriation, music as inspiration, history-making, and the normative role of architecture.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9783775755559

Publisher: Hatje Cantz

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 03 August 2023

Country: Germany

Imprint: Hatje Cantz

Illustration: 60 Illustrations

Contributors:

Edited by Florence Ostende
Edited by Maja Wismer
Edited by Raúl Muñoz de la Vega
Text by Carrie Mae Weems

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 160.0mm

Height: 230.0mm

Weight: 360g

Pages: 176

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Arts & Culture Non-Fiction

About the Author

CARRIE MAE WEEMS (*1953, Portland, Oregon) was trained as both a dancer and a photographer before enrolling in the graduate program in folklore at University of California, Berkeley in 1984. Questioning the representation of the Black subject, she came to prominence through her photographic work such as her seminal The Kitchen Table Series (1990), a narrative of staged photographs that tell a story of one woman's life, as conducted in the intimate setting of her kitchen. In 2014, she was the first African-American woman ever given a solo exhibition at the Guggenheim in New York.