Yourself in the world : selected writings and interviews / Glenn Ligon ; edited by Scott Rothkopf.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ligon, Glenn, 1960- author, artist.

Contributor:

Rothkopf, Scott, 1976- editor.

Whitney Museum of American Art.

Los Angeles County Museum of Art.

Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ligon, Glenn, 1960-.

Ligon, Glenn.

Ligon, Glenn, 1960---Themes, motives.

African American artists--Interviews.

African American artists.

African American artists--Exhibitions.

Themes, motives.

Genre:

Interviews.

Exhibition catalogs.

Physical Description:

xvi, 189 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

New Haven [Conn.] : Yale University Press ; New York : in association with Whitney Museum of American Art, 2011.

Contents:

Writings / by Glenn Ligon. Black light: David Hammons and the poetics of emptiness (2004) ; Dave McKenzie (2005) ; Wardell Milan II: a child of Babel (2007) ; My Felix (2007) ; Untitled (2008) ; Housing in New York: a brief history, 1960-2007 (2008) ; Walking in Memphis (2008) ; To miss New Orleans (2009) ; Kelley Walker's Negro problem (2010) ; Remember the revolution? (2010)

Interviews with Glenn Ligon. Interview with Andrea Miller-Keller (1992) ; Interview with Phyllis Rosenzweig (1993) ; Get the picture: an interview with Marie de Brugerolle (1995) ; Interview with Gary Garrels (1996) ; Interview with Byron Kim (1997) ; Conversation with Olukemi Ilesanmi and Joan Rothfuss (2000) ; Conversation with Hilton Als, moderated by Thelma Golden (2001) ; Interview with Stephen Andrews (2005) ; With our faces to the rising sun ... : a conversation with Thelma Golden ; Hotel Blues: a conversation with Wayne Koestenbaum (2007) ; A body of work: an interview with Patricia Bickers (2008) ; Interview with Jason Moran (2009).

Notes:

Published to coincide with the exhibition held at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, Mar. 10-June 5, 2011, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Oct. 23, 2011-Jan. 22, 2012, and the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Feb.-May 2012.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780300169096

0300169094

9780300172577

0300172575

OCLC:

667610103