Rodney McMillian

Rodney McMillian

Author:

Publisher:

Published: 2018-11-20

Total Pages: 372

ISBN-13: 9781942185390

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"This catalogue accompanies the inaugural Suzanne Deal Booth Art Prize and the exhibition: Rodney McMillian: Against a Civic Death, The Contemporary Austin-Jones Center, February 1-August 26, 2018"--Flyleaf.


Rodney McMillian

Rodney McMillian

Author: Anthony Elms

Publisher: Studio Museum in Harlem

Published: 2016

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780942949438

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Organized on the occasion of Rodney McMillian: Views of Main Street and The Studio Museum in Harlem and Rodney McMillian: The Black Show at the Institute of Contemporary Art at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.


Ruffneck Constructivists

Ruffneck Constructivists

Author: Kara Elizabeth Walker

Publisher: Dancing Foxes Press/Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania

Published: 2014

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780985337742

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"Ruffneck Constructivists," published to accompany a group exhibition curated by artist Kara Walker, brings together 11 international artists in order to define a contemporary manifesto of urban architecture and change. Inspired by both the Russian Constructivists and McLyte's 1993 hit song "Ruffneck," the phrase "Ruffneck Constructivists" evokes thuggishness as an expression of abjection. The book features sculpture, photography and video by the artists Dineo Seshee Bopape, Kendell Geers, Arthur Jafa, Jennie C. Jones, Kahlil Joseph, Deana Lawson, Rodney McMillian, Pope.L, Tim Portlock, Lior Shvil and Szymon Tomsia. As Walker states, "Ruffneck Constructivists are defiant shapers of environments. Whatever their gender affiliation, Ruffnecks go hard when all around them they see weakness, softness, compromise, sermonizing, poverty, and lack; they don't change the world through conscious actions, instead they build themselves into the world one assault at a time."


Heaven is a Playground

Heaven is a Playground

Author: Rick Telander

Publisher: U of Nebraska Press

Published: 1995-01-01

Total Pages: 246

ISBN-13: 9780803294271

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In 1974, Rick Telander intended to spend a few days doing a magazine piece on the court wizards of Brooklyn's Bedford-Stuyvesant. He ended up staying the entire summer, becoming part of the players' lives and eventually the coach of a loose aggregation known as the Subway Stars. Telander tells of everything he saw: the on-court flash, the off-court jargon, the late-night graffiti raids, the tireless efforts of one promoter-hustler-benefactor to get these kids a chance at a college education. He lets the kids speak for themselves, revealing their grand dreams and ambitions. But he never flinches from showing us how far their dreams are from reality. The roots of today's inner-city basketball can be traced to the world Telander presents in "Heaven is a Playground," the first book of its kind. Rick Telander is a senior writer for "Sports Illustrated" and the winner of the 1987 Notre Dame Club Award for Excellence in Sports Journalism.


30 Americans

30 Americans

Author: Rubell Family Collection

Publisher: Rubell Family Collection

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 240

ISBN-13:

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Text by Franklin Sirmans, Glenn Ligon, Robert Hobbs, Michele Wallace.


Who Asked You?

Who Asked You?

Author: Terry McMillan

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2015-08-04

Total Pages: 466

ISBN-13: 0451417038

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Trinetta drops off her two young boys with her mother, Betty Jean - and then pulls a disappearing act. BJ is a sassy, pull-no-punches, trademark McMillan matriarch, and she already has her hands full picking up the slack for her other kids, coaching her best friend Tammy through her own tribulations and dealing with two feuding sisters, all while holding down a job as a hotel maid. Who Asked You? raises questions about how we care for one another and how we set limits for those we love when the demands are too great.


Beyond the Box

Beyond the Box

Author: Christoph Balzar

Publisher:

Published: 2021-05

Total Pages: 206

ISBN-13: 9783969120231

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Breaking the Mold of Convention Presenting installations, sculptures, objects, and paintings from Mexico, Cuba, West Africa, Israel, Bulgaria, Russia, South Korea, and Japan, rounded out by extraordinary works from the U.S. and Europe, this selection from the Dohmen Collection features artists from countries that did not typically register on "Western" art radars until fifteen years ago. It was the seminal documenta 11 (2002), curated by a team led by Okwui Enwezor, that ushered in a departure from the contemporary art world's entrenched geopolitical ideas. This book showcases a treasure that has long been ahead of its time yet did not attract public attention: the private collection of Werner Dohmen, a physician in Aachen. It includes works by Mariana Castillo Deball, Wim Delvoye, Jimmie Durham, Diango Hernández, Rodney McMillian, Pavel Pepperstein, Nora Turato, Haegue Yang, and other artists who continue to provoke audiences, ask probing questions, and prompt fresh thinking.


Blues for Smoke

Blues for Smoke

Author: Bennett Simpson

Publisher: Prestel Publishing

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9783791352534

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This book, which accompanies a large-scale thematic exhibition, considers the experimental impulse in ideas and forms of the blues - and how it is manifested in a variety of works by contemporary visual artists. Covering nearly half a century and including the works of some 50 artists in a wide variety of media, this book looks beyond ideas of musical category to identify the blues as a visual and cultural idiom that has informed multiple generations of artists -- from Romare Bearden and William Eggleston to David Hammons and David Simon, creator of the television series The Wire. Generously illustrated with paintings, drawings, photographs, sculpture, installation, and video stills, and containing a wide range of critical writing, poetry, and fiction, the catalog explores topics central to the blues -- from articulations of daily life, modes of abstraction and repetition, and self-performance to ecstatic and cathartic expression and metaphors of memory and the archive. Both scholarly and unique, this reimagining of all things Blues will draw audiences from across cultural and racial boundaries as it celebrates a uniquely American idiom that has made its mark on nearly every contemporary artistic medium. ILLUSTRATIONS: 120 colour illustrations