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John Akomfrah : signs of empire / curated by Massimiliano Gioni and Gary Carrion-Murayari ; edited by Thea Ballard with Dana Kopel.
Fine Arts Library N6797.A386 A4 2018
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Akomfrah, John, artist.
- Standardized Title:
- Works. Selections
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Akomfrah, John--Exhibitions.
- Akomfrah, John.
- Akomfrah, John--Criticism and interpretation.
- Video installations (Art)--New York (State)--New York--Exhibitions.
- Video installations (Art).
- Postcolonialism and the arts--Exhibitions.
- Postcolonialism and the arts.
- Criticism and interpretation.
- New York (State)--New York.
- Genre:
- Exhibition catalogs.
- Physical Description:
- 125 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 28 cm
- Other Title:
- Signs of empire
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : New Museum, 2018.
- Summary:
- Since the early 1980s, Akomfrah's moving image works have offered some of the most rigorous and expansive reflections on the culture of the black diaspora. Zoe Whitley and Aram Moshayedi survey Akomfrah's early work as part of Black Audio Film Collective. Tina Campt explores the sonic resonances of Akomfrah's installation The Unfinished Conversation (2012), which focuses on the life of cultural theorist Stuart Hall. Diana Nawi examines the recent work Transfigured Night (2013/2018), considering how Akomfrah continues to find new languages for film, representation and narrative. T.J. Demos and Okwui Enwezor look at Vertigo Sea (2015), Akomfrah's monumental work exploring the concept of the black Atlantic, using the work to articulate the visual and philosophical underpinnings of Akomfrah's work across his career. Exhibition: New Museum, New York, USA (20.06.-02.09.2018).
- Notes:
- Published on the occasion of the exhibition "John Akomfrah: Signs of Empire" at the New Museum, New York, N.Y., June 20-September 2, 2018.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 9780915557189
- 0915557185
- OCLC:
- 1046071979
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