Kerry James Marshall: History of Painting - (Hardcover)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>In <i>History of Painting<i>, the artist has widened his scope to include both figurative and nonfigurative works that deal explicitly with art history, race, and gender, as well as force viewers to reexamine how artworks are received in the world and in the art market.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><b>Kerry James Marshall is one of America's greatest living painters. <i>History of Painting</i> presents a groundbreaking body of new work that engages with the history of the medium itself.</b> <p/>In <i>History of Painting</i>, the artist has widened his scope to include both figurative and nonfigurative works that deal explicitly with art history, race, and gender, as well as force us to reexamine how artworks are received in the world and in the art market. In the paintings in this book, Marshall's critique of history and of dominant white narratives is present, even as the subjects of the paintings move between reproductions of auction catalogues, abstract works, and scenes of everyday life. <p/>Essays by Teju Cole and Hal Foster help readers navigate the artist's masterful vision, decoding complexly layered works such as <i>Untitled</i> <i>(Underpainting)</i> (2018) and Marshall's own artistic philosophy. This catalogue is published on the occasion of Marshall's eponymous exhibition at David Zwirner, London, in 2018.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>"Diddy and Ye's favourite artist is back with a gorgeous but vitriolic attack on the representations of black bodies and black artists in the history of art. Brilliant."--Eddy Frankel "TimeOut London"<br><br>"Kerry James Marshall is one of the most prolific painters currently living, and if you're unable to see his works in person, this book is the next best thing."--Lee Cutlip "Inside Hook"<br><br>"Marshall addresses the history and function of applying paint, pigment, and color to a solid surface through still life, landscape, abstraction, and portraiture, his most acclaimed genre, and one which continuously questions our understanding of beauty, taste, and power."--Rianna Jade Parker "ARTnews"<br><br>"Marshall is commenting not only on art history but on the contemporary market: the way works accrue meaning and ultimately value... And it's some of the best contemporary art on show. Marshall continues to shake things up - quietly, and from the inside."--Griselda Murray Brown "Financial Times"<br><br>"The hugely influential American artist examines how the medium of painting has engaged with race and gender for six centuries... Marshall's paintings are astutely elucidated in two texts specially commissioned for this book."-- "Nataal"<br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>Through its formal acuity, <b>Kerry James Marshall</b>'s (b. 1955) work reveals and questions the social constructs of beauty, taste, and power. As the artist has written, 'I gave up on the idea of making Art a long time ago, because I wanted to know how to make <i>paintings</i>; but once I came to know that, reconsidering the question of what Art is returned as a critical issue.' Engaged in an ongoing dialogue with six centuries of representational painting, Marshall has deftly reinterpreted and updated its tropes, compositions, and styles, even pulling talismans from the canvases of his forbearers and recontextualizing them within a modern setting. At the center of his prodigious oeuvre, which also includes drawings and sculpture, is the critical recognition of the conditions of invisibility so long ascribed to black bodies in the Western pictorial tradition, and the creation of what he calls a 'counter-archive' that reinscribes these figures within its narrative arc. <p/><b>Teju Cole</b> is an essayist, photographer, curator, and the author of <i>Open City</i> (2011) and <i>Blind Spot </i>(2017), among other books. His honors include the PEN/Hemingway Award, the Internationaler Literaturpreis, the Windham Campbell Prize, the Rosenthal Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and a Guggenheim Fellowship. His photography has been the subject of solo exhibitions in Milan, Berlin, Zurich, and New York, and he has given several distinguished lectureships. Originally trained as an art historian, he has written the "On Photography" column for <i>The New York Times Magazine</i> since 2015. Born in the United States and raised in Nigeria, Cole is currently the Gore Vidal Professor of the Practice of Creative Writing at Harvard University. <p/><b>Hal Foster</b> has been a force in American art criticism since the late 1970s, bringing psychoanalytic and poststructural theory to bear on contemporary art and its historical precedents. In 1983 he edited the anthology <i>The Anti-Aesthetic: Essays on Postmodern Culture</i>, which helped frame postmodernism within the arts. Foster began to write for <i>Artforum</i> in 1978 and was a senior editor at <i>Art in America</i> (1981-1987) before becoming a coeditor of the journal <i>October</i> in 1991, and contributes frequently to <i>Artforum</i>, <i>October</i>, and the <i>London Review of Books</i>. His books include <i>Recodings: Art, Spectacle, Cultural Politics</i> (1985), <i>Compulsive Beauty</i> (1993), <i>The Return of the Real</i> (1996), <i>Design and Crime</i> (2002), <i>The Art-Architecture Complex</i> (2011), <i>The First Pop Age</i> (2012), and <i>Bad New Days: Art, Criticism, Emergency</i> (2015). He is the Townsend Martin, Class of 1917, Professor of Art and Archaeology at Princeton University.
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