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Noah Davis / edited by Wells Fray-Smith, Paola Malavassi and Eleanor Nairne.
Fine Arts Library ND237.D3326 A4 2024
Available
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Davis, Noah, 1983-2015--Exhibitions.
- Davis, Noah.
- Davis, Noah, 1983-2015--Criticism and interpretation.
- Davis, Noah, 1983-2015--Themes, motives.
- African American painting--21st century--Exhibitions.
- African American painting.
- Painting, American--21st century--Exhibitions.
- Painting, American.
- African Americans in art--Exhibitions.
- African Americans in art.
- Genre:
- exhibition catalogs.
- Exhibition catalogs.
- Illustrated works.
- Essays.
- Physical Description:
- 269 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), portraits ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Munich ; London ; New York : Prestel, 2024.
- Summary:
- "This striking exhibition catalog celebrates the late artist whose deeply emotional works intermingled realism with abstraction to address complex themes of identity, race, and community. American artist Noah Davis (1983-2015) believed 'painting does something to your soul that nothing else can. It is visceral and immediate.' Drawing on art history, personal archives, anonymous photography found in Los Angeles' flea markets, and his own imagination, he compiled a ravishing body of figurative paintings that explore a range of Black life. Alongside his celebrated paintings, Davis made drawings, collages, and sculptures, and co-founded the Underground Museum. This elegantly designed volume documents the span of Davis's career and attends to his commitment to representation in the art world and community engagement at the Underground Museum. Alongside new scholarship from writers, artists, and musicians like Tina M. Campt, Claudia Rankine, Marlene Dumas, and Jason Moran, this catalog features high-quality reproductions of Davis's more widely-known works as well as previously unseen archival material. A vital resource for understanding the depth and significance of his practice, this beautiful publication reveals how humanity, humor, imagination, and above all, people, were the epicenter of Davis's work." --Amazon.
- Contents:
- Introduction / by Shanay Jhavei, Paola Malavassi, Ann Philbin
- Noah Davis and the magic quotidian / by Eleanor Nairne
- Helen Molesworth on 40 acres and a unicorn, 2007
- Marlene Dumas on Single mother with father out of the picture, 2007-8
- Noah Davis: so magic, so real / by Paola Malavassi
- T.J. Clark on The architect, 2009
- Karon Davis on Isis, 2009
- Francesco Clement on Painting for my dad, 2011
- Dawoud Bey on 1975, 2013
- Black-ground: Noah Davis and the spatial frequencies of the black everyday / by Tina M. Campt
- Jason Moran on Pueblo del Rio : concerto, 2014
- Noah Davis, the architect / by Wells Fray-Smith
- Untitled, 2015 / by Claudia Rankine
- Chronology / compiled by Colm guo-Lin Peare.
- Notes:
- Published on the occasion of an exhibition of the same name held at DAS MINSK, Potsdam, September 7, 2024-January 5, 2025; Barbican Art Gallery, London, February 6-May 11, 2025; and Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, June 8-August 31, 2025.
- Text by Eleanor Nairne, Helen Molesworth, Marlene Dumas, Paola Malavassi, T.J. Clark, Karon Davis, Francesco Clemente, Dawoud Bey, Tina M. Campt, Jason Moran, Wells Fray-Smith, and Claudia Rankine; chronology compiled by Colm Guo-Lin Peare.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 9783791377742
- 3791377744
- OCLC:
- 1454850841
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