Terry Adkins : recital : The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Adkins, Terry, 1953-2014, artist.

Contributor:

Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery, host institution, publisher, issuing body.

Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, host institution.

Prestel Verlag, publisher.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Adkins, Terry, 1953-2014--Exhibitions.

Adkins, Terry.

Adkins, Terry, 1953-2014.

Sound sculpture--United States--Exhibitions.

Sound sculpture.

African Americans--Music--Influence--Exhibitions.

African Americans.

African American artists--United States--20th century--Exhibitions.

African American artists.

African Americans--Music.

United States.

Genre:

Exhibition catalogs.

Photobooks.

Music.

Physical Description:

299 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), portraits ; 30 cm

Other Title:

Recital : The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College

Place of Publication:

Saratoga Springs, New York : Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College ; Munich, Germany ; London, England ; New York, New York : DelMonico Books/Prestel ; 2017.

Summary:

Recital was conceived as a theatrical score that punctuates and demarcates space, creating interplay among pieces in different media and from diverse bodies of work. The works of art in 'Recital' pay homage to the legacies of a number of immortal and enigmatic figures such as Bessie Smith, W.E.B. Du Bois, John Brown, Matthew Henson, and John Coltrane, among others. Adkins's creative research not only intends to resuscitate his chosen subjects from historical erasure, but also to shed light on willfully neglected or lesser-known aspects of their biographies, such as Jimi Hendrix's military training as a paratrooper in the 101st Airborne, or the question of Beethoven's Moorish ancestry. In his sculpture, photography, and video, Adkins transforms and re-purposes a range of found materials, archival imagery, and reclaimed actions in a process that he calls potential disclosure. This book features detailed biographical information, an interview with the artist, and a selection of Adkins's writings.

Contents:

Introduction / Ian Berry

Notes on the precious few A. D. / Terry Adkins

Magus and Adnachiel / Lauren Haynes

Wanting more: A dialogue with Terry Adkins / Ian Berry

Smoke stack / Adrienne Edwards

The sound of Terry Adkins / George E. Lewis

Last trumpet / Akili Tommasino

Chanting bees and other translations: the video projects of Terry Adkins / Charles Gaines

A path, as long as the ear can hear / Anthony Elms

A certain kind of luminescence: the recitals of Terry Adkins / Okwui Enwezor

Catalogue of the exhibition

Archive / compiled by Hillary Reder

Concentrated Passion of the Circle and the Square / Michael Brenson

Terry Adkins at LedisFlam / Nancy Princenthal

Interview with Terry Adkins / Deirdre L. Bibby

Living space / Terry Adkins

Terry Adkins: Later Coltrane / Nancy Princenthal

A short note on content and intent: Terry Adkins and John Brown After Flame / Carl Hazlewood

Might could be / Annette Dimeo Carlozzi

Imagined history: The work of Terry Adkins / Cheryl Finley

Thunderbolt Special: The Great Electric Show and Dance (after Sam Lightnin' Hopkins): Project Row Houses / Valerie Cassel Oliver

Terry Adkins / Cathryn Drake

Seeing Voices: Terry Adkins's Darkwater Record / Kenneth W. Warren

Terry Adkins / Casey Ruble

Exhibition history.

Notes:

"Recital comprises a selection of work spanning the last three decades by artist/musician Terry Adkins. . . . The works of art in Recital pay homage to the legacies of a number of immortal and enigmatic figures such as Bessie Smith, W. E. B. Du Bois, John Brown, Matthew Henson and John Coltrane, among others."--Tang Museum and Art Gallery website (viewed on September 6, 2017)

Catalog of an exhibition held at the Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery, July 14-December 2, 2012, and at the Mary & Leigh Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University, January 11-March 24, 2013.

Includes bibliographical references (page 290-293)

"Terry Adkins Recital" : July 14-December 2, 2012, The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, New York, United States.

"Terry Adkins Recital" : January 11-March 24, 2013, Mary & Leigh Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, United States.

ISBN:

9783791352756

379135275X

OCLC:

1003134194