1 option
Paint & polish : cultural economy & visual culture from the West Side / Helen Maurene Cooper.
LIBRA TT958.3 .P35 2017
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Onomatopee (Series) ; no. 133.
- Onomatopee ; 133
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Nail art (Manicuring)--Pictorial works.
- Nail art (Manicuring).
- Beauty operators--Illinois--Chicago.
- Beauty operators.
- Illinois--Chicago.
- Genre:
- Pictorial works.
- Illustrated works.
- Physical Description:
- 104 pages : color illustrations, map ; 33 cm.
- Other Title:
- Paint and polish
- Place of Publication:
- Eindhoven : Onomatopee, 2017.
- Summary:
- Paint & Polish sources visual inspiration from the microeconomic culture of Hispanic and African-American nail artists in the Northwest Side of Chicago. It fosters engagement with these artists by highlighting their work and collaborating with them. Included are oral histories, conversations with various nail artists, their portraits by Helen Maurene Cooper, and photography from their business. By documenting the community, this set of materials engages with it profoundly. Inspired by these sources and the visually tempting, distinct style of the nail art, Cooper's photographic artworks open a gateway to elaborate on the visual identification of nail art. In both photography and the nail art scene, concerns such as gesture, self-expression and labor are prominent. The accompanying writings take these issues into consideration.
- Contents:
- Jazzy Nails : photo documentary
- Introduction / by Helen Maurene Cooper
- Table top vinyl : documentation of the project
- On the documentary form / by Roula Seikaly
- Ombre : wallpaper pattern & wallpapered shop
- Who did your nails? / by Ryan Kenneth Blocker
- Polished : wallpaper pattern & wallpapered shop
- A conversation on local and global economy : Patricia Reed and Helen Maurene Cooper in conversation
- Inlay on oranges with gold glitter : wallpaper pattern & exhibition view
- Hard Candy : artworks
- Jackee Blue : in conversation
- Loretta Gonzalez : in conversation
- Alexis : in conversation
- Glynnus Alexander : in conversation
- Yara Fernandez Ruiz : in conversation
- Nailbait : artworks
- Polished part 2 : artworks
- Chicago map : locations of all the shops
- Colophon
- Jazzy Nails : photo documentary.
- Contains:
- Cooper, Helen Maurene, editor.
- ISBN:
- 9789491677625
- 9491677624
- OCLC:
- 977133107
The Penn Libraries is committed to describing library materials using current, accurate, and responsible language. If you discover outdated or inaccurate language, please fill out this feedback form to report it and suggest alternative language.