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Jack Whitten : the messenger / Michelle Kuo ; with contributions by Michelle Kuo [and ten others] ; and research by David Sledge [and five others].
Fine Arts Library ND237.W6234 A4 2025
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- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Whitten, Jack, 1939-2018--Exhibitions.
- Whitten, Jack.
- Whitten, Jack, 1939-2018--Criticism and interpretation.
- Whitten, Jack, 1939-2018--Themes, motives.
- Whitten, Jack, 1939-2018.
- African American art--20th century--Exhibitions.
- African American art.
- African American art--21st century--Exhibitions.
- Painting, Abstract--20th century--Exhibitions.
- Painting, Abstract.
- Painting, Abstract--21st century--Exhibitions.
- African American painters--20th century--21st century.
- African American painters.
- African American artists--20th century--21st century--Exhibitions.
- African American artists.
- Themes, motives.
- Criticism and interpretation.
- United States.
- Genre:
- exhibition catalogs.
- Exhibition catalogs.
- Physical Description:
- 304 pages : illustrations (some color), facsimiles, portraits ; 31 cm
- Distribution:
- New York, New York : Distributed in the United States and Canada by ARTBOOK / D.A.P.
- Other Title:
- Messenger
- Place of Publication:
- New York, New York : The Museum of Modern Art, [2025]
- Summary:
- "Jack Whitten offered the world a new way to see. Over nearly six decades, he dared to invent new forms of abstraction, constantly transforming both perception and our understanding of art in society. This gorgeously illustrated volume, with pathbreaking new perspectives and revelatory technical analyses of his innovative materials and processes, explores Whitten's wide-ranging and game-changing practice. Raised in the segregated Jim Crow South in the 1940s, Whitten undertook an extraordinary journey in becoming an artist, convinced that by changing form, he could help change the world. Despite pressure from peers to create figurative art, he was a key proponent of creating abstract art that responded to social turmoil; to his own identity as a Black artist; and to sea changes in technology. He created new ways of painting through a series of artistic inventions and strategies. He defied traditional boundaries between abstraction and representation, pictures and things, culture and technology, individual identity and global history. Published to accompany the first comprehensive retrospective of Whitten's art, this sumptuous catalog presents the full range of his career across painting, sculpture and works on paper, produced in New York and Greece, with texts by leading art historians and artists, and new technical analyses by conservators. Previously unpublished writings by the artist and an expansive chronology of Whitten's life, featuring newly discovered photographs and archival materials, bring into focus an artist who was as committed to human perception as to human rights, becoming one of the most important artists of our time."-- description from distributor's website, https://www.artbook.com/9781633451704.html, accessed 20250505.
- Contents:
- Foreword / Glenn D. Lowry
- Jack Whitten: A life / David Sledge, Helena Klevorn, Dana Liljegren, Kiko Aebit, and Eana Kim
- Jack Whitten: The messenger / Michelle Kuo
- On Birmingham 1968 and Head IV Lynching, 1964 / Sampada Aranke
- Fourteen billion years: Jack Whitten's light / Julie Mehretu
- On Homage to Malcolm, 1970 / Mark Godfrey
- On Siberian Salt Grinder, 1974, and the acrylic "Slab" paintings / Michael Duffy
- On Liquid Space I, 1976, and works on paper / Annie Wilker, with instrumental analysis by Catherine H. Stephens
- On black monoliths / Glenn Ligon
- On Ogun's Shield, 1989 / Dana Liljegren
- Jack Whitten: Cosmologist at work / George E. Lewis
- On Time's Dilemma, 2010 / Richard Shiff
- On Atopolis: For Édouard Glissant, 2014 / Anna Deavere Smith in conversation with Michelle Kuo
- Writings, letters, lectures, lesson plans by Jack Whitten
- Checklist of the exhibition
- Selected bibliography
- Contributors
- Lenders to the exhibition
- Acknowledgments
- Trustees of The Museum of Modern Art.
- Jack Whitten: A life / David Sledge, Helena Klevorn, Dana Liljegren, Kiko Aebi, and Eana Kim
- On Birmingham 1964 and Head IV Lynching, 1964 / Sampada Aranke
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 295-297).
- Local Notes:
- Published in conjunction with the exhibition 'Jack Whitten: The Messenger' at The Museum of Modern Art, New York, March 23-August 2, 2025.
- ISBN:
- 9781633451704
- 1633451704
- OCLC:
- 1500699889
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