The theater of refusal : black art and mainstream criticism / artists, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Renee Green, David Hammons, Ben Patterson, Adrian Piper, Sandra Rowe, Gary Simmons, Lorna Simpson, Carrie Mae Weems, Pat Ward Williams, Fred Wilson ; curator, Charles Gaines ; editor, Catherine Lord.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Basquiat, Jean-Michel, 1960-1988, artist.

Green, Renée, artist.

Hammons, David, 1943- artist.

Patterson, Ben, 1934-2016, artist.

Piper, Adrian, 1948- artist.

Rowe, Sandra, artist.

Simmons, Gary, 1964- artist.

Simpson, Lorna, 1960- artist.

Weems, Carrie Mae, 1953- artist.

Williams, Pat Ward, artist.

Wilson, Fred, 1954- artist.

Gaines, Charles, 1944- editor.

Anastas, Rhea, editor.

James, Jamillah, 1980- editor.

Golo Stone, Eric, editor.

Lord, Catherine, 1949- editor.

University of California, Irvine. Fine Arts Gallery, host institution.

Richard L. Nelson Gallery, host institution.

University of California, Riverside. Art Gallery, host institution.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African American art--20th century--Exhibitions.

African American art.

Genre:

exhibition catalogs.

Exhibition catalogs

Exhibition catalogs.

Physical Description:

183 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 28 cm

Edition:

2024 expanded edition / edited by Rhea Anastas, Charles Gaines, Jamillah James, and Eric Golo Stone.

Place of Publication:

Los Angeles : The Brick ; Brooklyn, New York : Dancing Foxes Press ; [Stuttgart] : Künstlerhaus Stuttgart, 2024.

Summary:

"In 1993, at the University of California, Irvine, Charles Gaines and Catherine Lord mounted a category-breaking exhibition of Black artists from different generations, working across Fluxus, Conceptualism, assemblage, photography and installation. Challenging the racializing of Black artists' work, the exhibition confronted the discourse around race difference in the United States by including excerpts of writing by art critics who had discussed the featured artists. On the 30th anniversary of this event, this publication reprints the eponymous 1993 volume documenting the show, which contained essays by Gaines, Lord and Berger, and the transcript of a roundtable of artists and writers. Reproducing images of the exhibition in color for the first time, this new edition augments the original publication with an essay by poet and scholar Fred Moten; recent conversations between Lord and Gaines; an interview with Gaines by Moten; and a new roundtable discussion moderated and edited by curator Jamillah James and Thomas (T.) Jean Lax" -- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction and acknowledgements / Catherine Lord

To meet the white man's eyes / Maurice Berger

The theater of refusal : black art and mainstream criticism / Charles Gaines

(An)other panic : the mainstream learns to bash / Catherine Lord

Plates

The theater of refusal roundtable

Biographies.

Notes:

Catalog of an exhibition held at University of California, Irvine, Fine Arts Gallery, April 8-May 12, 1993; University of California, Davis, Richard L. Nelson Gallery, November 7-December 17, 1993; and University of California, Riverside, University Art Gallery, January 9-February 27, 1994.

"This book was organized on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of the publication 'Theater of Refusal: Black Art and Mainstream Criticism,' edited by Charles Gaines and Catherine Lord, and published by the Fine Arts Gallery, University of California, Irvine, in 1993"--Colophon.

Edition statement from dust jacket.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9781954947108

1954947100

OCLC:

1412189182