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Tavares Strachan : the awakening.
Fine Arts Library N6602.S77 A4 2022
Available
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Strachan, Tavares, 1979---Exhibitions.
- Strachan, Tavares.
- Strachan, Tavares, 1979---Interviews.
- Garvey, Marcus, 1887-1940.
- Garvey, Marcus.
- Art, Bahamian--21st century--Exhibitions.
- Art, Bahamian.
- Exhibition catalogs.
- exhibition catalogs.
- Strachan, Tavares, 1979-.
- Genre:
- exhibition catalogs.
- Interviews.
- Exhibition catalogs.
- Physical Description:
- 131 pages : color illustrations ; 28 cm
- Other Title:
- Awakening
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Marian Goodman Gallery ; New York, NY : Isolated Publishing, [2022]
- Summary:
- "The Awakening's point of departure is the life and work of the pioneering Jamaican-born activist Marcus Garvey (1887-1940). A charismatic leader, Garvey incorporated the Black-owned steamship company The Black Star Line (1919-1922), which aimed to unify and connect people of African descent worldwide, via both the transport of emigrants back to Africa and through the shipment of goods among people of the African Diaspora. The Black Star Line (a play on the luxury British steamship The White Star Line) was created with the support of the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA) which Garvey founded in 1914, and embodied tenets of black self-determination and autonomy heralded by the UNIA. Almost a century later, Strachan acknowledges Garvey's profound influence upon history, as well as his personal importance to the Bahamian-born artist. An artist committed to redressing historical bias, Strachan mines the archives of history to turn the lens in a different direction and to invert the trans-Atlantic story. Drawing on influences that span from jazz, reggae, hip-hop, to sports and culture, science and space, Strachan applies a dub aesthetic within his practice, sampling and recombining from sites of human ambition and the archives of history to create works that address a dynamic range of subjects and counter established narratives." -- publisher website
- Notes:
- Exhibition held at Marian Goodman Gallery, New York 6 May- 11 June 2022.
- Text by Pedro Alonzo, Gavin Delahunty, Erin Jenoa Gilbert, Alysia Nicole Harris.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rebecca Pepper Sinkler Fund.
- ISBN:
- 0944219535
- 9780944219539
- OCLC:
- 1412198487
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