{"product_id":"chakaia-booker-9783777438092","title":"Chakaia Booker","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eChakaia Booker: The Observance\u003c\/i\u003e accompanies the first comprehensive museum survey of the American artist. The publication explores the artist's signature form—monumental works made of rubber—while showcasing her innovations across mediums.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFeaturing an expansive range of Booker's sculptures, including totemic and anthropomorphic assemblages fabricated from cast-off tires, the volume highlights Booker's ongoing expression of ecological and technological concerns, examinations of racial and economic disparities, and her interest in the symbolism of the automobile in American culture.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe exhibition and accompanying publication \u003ci\u003eChakaia Booker: The Observance\u003c\/i\u003e include some of Booker's most topical works, such as \u003ci\u003eChu Ching\u003c\/i\u003e (2012), which depicts a cross on a wheelbarrow resembling Jesus being dismounted from the cross. It also showcases two rarely seen series of paintings that explore landscape and language. The artist's photographic series, \u003ci\u003eFoundling Warrior Quest\u003c\/i\u003e (2010) and \u003ci\u003eGraveyard Series\u003c\/i\u003e (1995), are featured to explore the importance of performance and mythology in her practice.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAnchoring the presentation is \u003ci\u003eThe Observance\u003c\/i\u003e (1995), an immersive installation made of deconstructed rubber tires and tubes—Booker's first work in this signature material, chosen by the artist for its associations with riots.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Thames and Hudson (Australia) Pty Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47455534055660,"sku":"9783777438092","price":100.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9783777438092.jpg?v=1774779905","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/chakaia-booker-9783777438092","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}