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Wangechi Mutu : I am speaking, are you listening? / Claudia Schmuckli with Isaac Julien and Wangechi Mutu.
LIBRA N6537.W256 S38 2021
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Schmuckli, Claudia, author, curator, interviewer.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Wangechi Mutu--Exhibitions.
- Wangechi Mutu.
- Wangechi Mutu--Interviews.
- Women, Black, in art--21st century--Exhibitions.
- Women, Black, in art.
- Art, Kenyan--United States--Exhibitions.
- Art, Kenyan.
- Art, Modern--21st century--Exhibitions.
- Art, Modern.
- Multimedia (Art)--United States--21st century--Exhibitions.
- Multimedia (Art).
- Collage--Kenya--21st century.
- Collage.
- Collage--United States--21st century--Exhibitions.
- Women artists, Black--Kenya--21st century.
- Women artists, Black.
- Kenya.
- United States.
- Genre:
- Exhibition catalogs.
- Interviews.
- Physical Description:
- 159 pages : color illustrations ; 28 cm
- Place of Publication:
- San Francisco, CA : Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco ; New York, NY : DelMonico Books, [2021]
- Summary:
- Wangechi Mutu takes viewers on journeys of material, psychological and sociopolitical transformation; this volume explores her most recent groundbreaking work. Over the past two decades, Mutu has created chimerical constellations of powerful female characters, hybrid beings and fantastical landscapes. With a rare understanding of the need for powerful new mythologies beyond simple binaries and stereotypes, Mutu breaches common distinctions between human, animal, plant and machine. An artist who calls both Nairobi and New York City home, Mutu moves voraciously between cultural traditions to challenge colonialist, racist and sexist worldviews with her visionary projection of an alternate universe informed by Afrofuturism, posthumanism and feminism. This dazzling book accompanies a presentation of Mutu's new work on view at the Legion, along with a greater selection from her landmark oeuvre. It is the most comprehensive book on the artist to date.
- Contents:
- Foreword / Thomas P. Campbell
- Art as a "weapon of mass construction" / Claudia Schmuckli
- Making histories / Wangechi Mutu in conversation with Isaac Julien and Claudia Schmuckli
- I am speaking / Wangechi Mutu
- Gallery
- Checklist of the exhibition.
- Notes:
- Published on the occasion of the exhibition Wangechi Mutu: I am speaking, are you listening? at the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, May 7-November 7, 2021.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 1636810055
- 9781636810058
- OCLC:
- 1256542293
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