The work of several lifetimes / Mario Moore.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Moore, Mario, artist.

Standardized Title:

Works. Selections

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Moore, Mario.

Princeton University.

African Americans--New Jersey--Princeton--Portraits.

African Americans.

African Americans--New Jersey--Princeton--Pictorial works.

Black people--New Jersey--Princeton--Portraits.

Black people.

Black people--New Jersey--Princeton--Pictorial works.

Princeton University--Employees--Portraits.

Princeton University--Employees--Pictorial works.

African Americans in art.

African American painters.

African American artists.

Employees.

New Jersey--Princeton.

Genre:

Pictorial works.

Portraits.

Illustrated works.

Physical Description:

127 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 29 cm

Distribution:

New York : Artbook/D.A.P.

Place of Publication:

Princeton, New Jersey : Lewis Center for the Arts, [2021]

Summary:

Over the years, artist and Detroit native Mario Moore (born 1987) has observed that the halls of elite institutions like universities and art museums prominently feature portraits of donors, deans, presidents, board members and scholars, and that the subjects of those portraits are mostly white and male. When Moore was selected as a Princeton University Hodder Fellow in 2018, he wanted to ask what positions garner such attention and how could painting contribute to conversations on who deserves to be recognized. He set out to meet Black men and women who work in and around Princeton University in blue-collar jobs and let the art-making process unfold from their collaborative interactions. In the resulting works, Moore redefines the colonial gaze for the subjects he paints, allowing them to look directly out with an unflinching stare. This publication includes sketches, drawings, etchings and paintings.

Contents:

Introduction A Temple for Everday Heroes Jessica Bell Brown Mario Moore's Visual Mantra Tracy K. Smith The Africanist Presences of Princeton Imani Perry The Enduring Legacy of Oral History Awoye Timpo Institutional Work V. Mitch McEwen Rewriting Our Cultural Code Ruha Benjamin Making Time for Visibility Artist Introduction Mario Moore Plates Artist Biography

ISBN:

9781646570157

1646570154

OCLC:

1235417486