Screen LibraryChris Ofili.
"Chris Ofili's intricately constructed works, combining beadlike dots of paint, collaged images from popular media, and elephant dung, create a unique iconography that marries African artistic and ritual practices with Western art historical traditions and contemporary hip-hop culture. Thi...
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Rizzoli,
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| Publisher Address: | New York : |
| Publication Dates: | 2009. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Edition: | First edition. |
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| Summary: |
"Chris Ofili's intricately constructed works, combining beadlike dots of paint, collaged images from popular media, and elephant dung, create a unique iconography that marries African artistic and ritual practices with Western art historical traditions and contemporary hip-hop culture. This beautifully designed book, made in close collaboration with the artist, is the first to examine Ofili's artistic development and surveys his work in watercolor, graphite drawing, and sculpture. Literary and historical parallels from a formidable list of contributors explore the ways through which the artist has grasped his times with a palpable sense of history."--Jacket |
| Carrier Form: | 267 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 32 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (page 262) and index. |
| ISBN: |
9780847832156 0847832155 |
| Index Number: | ND497 |
| CLC: | J231(767) |
| Call Number: | J231(767)/O329 |
| Contents: | Foreword / Peter Doig -- Brooklyn museum: messing with the sacred / Carol Becker -- Chris Ofili: the upper room / David Adjaye -- Shattering the mirror of tradition: Chris Ofili's triumph of painting at the 50th Venice Biennale / Okwui Enwezor -- Promenade / Kara Walker -- Conversation / Thelma Golden & Chris Ofili -- Two more ways of looking at it / Cameron Shaw. |