Michael Ray Charles

Michael Ray Charles

Author: Cherise Smith

Publisher: University of Texas Press

Published: 2020-01-10

Total Pages: 296

ISBN-13: 9781477319178

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Michael Ray Charles is the most comprehensive presentation yet of the work of an artist who rose to prominence in the 1990s for works that engaged American stereotypes of African Americans. With a background in advertising and an archivist’s inquisitiveness, Charles developed an artistic practice that made startling use of found images and offered critiques of the narratives they fostered. Immersing readers in the imagination of this daring painter, Michael Ray Charles celebrates and contextualizes a singular, major figure in the art world. Art historian Cherise Smith collaborated with the artist to curate nearly one hundred color plates documenting nearly thirty years of visual art. These plates are framed by an interview with the artist and by Smith’s own deep interpretive essay on Charles’s work. Smith explores topics ranging from the controversy resulting from Charles’s provocative appropriations of stereotypical racial material to his techniques of sampling from popular culture; from his commentaries on African American men and sports to his work with director Spike Lee on Bamboozled. Both clear-eyed and complex, this retrospective demonstrates the significant role that Michael Ray Charles’s work has played in defining what art is today.


The Alcalde

The Alcalde

Author:

Publisher:

Published: 1971-09

Total Pages: 48

ISBN-13:

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As the magazine of the Texas Exes, The Alcalde has united alumni and friends of The University of Texas at Austin for nearly 100 years. The Alcalde serves as an intellectual crossroads where UT's luminaries - artists, engineers, executives, musicians, attorneys, journalists, lawmakers, and professors among them - meet bimonthly to exchange ideas. Its pages also offer a place for Texas Exes to swap stories and share memories of Austin and their alma mater. The magazine's unique name is Spanish for "mayor" or "chief magistrate"; the nickname of the governor who signed UT into existence was "The Old Alcalde."


Close to Home

Close to Home

Author: Richard S. Buswell

Publisher: University of New Mexico Press

Published: 2013

Total Pages: 80

ISBN-13: 0826352871

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"Richard S. Buswell is known for his striking current images of the Montana frontier, which are distinguished by abstract black and white compositions. This new collection highlights material that has not been previously published"--


American Horizons

American Horizons

Author: Keith F. Davis

Publisher: Hudson Hills

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 119

ISBN-13: 1555952305

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This revealing monograph explores how Sinsabaugh's wide format photographs expose the bond between humankind and the earth as suggested by his images of wide horizons, interspersed by skyscrapers, bridges, silos and highways. 96 colour & 200 b/w illustrations