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Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons: Everything Is Separated by Water

Door Okwui Enwezor

Categorie
Algemeen Kunst
Boeknummer
#329772-AD24
Titel
Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons: Everything Is Separated by Water
Auteur
Enwezor, Okwui
Boektype
Gebonden hardcover met stofomslag
Uitgeverij
Yale University Press
Jaar van uitgave
2007
ISBN10
0300123450
ISBN13
9780300123456
Taal
Engels
Beschrijving
Original boards, dust jacket, 58 colour and 7 b/w illustrations, 4to.
Samenvatting
 A stunning mid-career retrospective of an important and influential contemporary Afro-Cuban artist

With a diverse oeuvre ranging from painting to mixed-media installations to performance, video, and photography, María Magdalena Campos-Pons is one of the most significant artists to emerge from post-Revolutionary Cuba. Her evocative works probe questions of race, class, cultural hybridism, and national identities in African diasporic communities. María Magdalena Campos-Pons: Everything Is Separated by Water is the first full-scale survey of the artist's career. The title, borrowed from one of her works, evokes at once the dangerous sea crossings faced by her enslaved ancestors from Africa and her Cuban contemporaries seeking greater freedom in America, and the sense of disl... (Lees verder)ocation felt when physical and geopolitical barriers divide family and friends, past and future. Lisa D. Freiman considers how Campos-Pons's practice, which is predicated on concepts of separation, memory, and fragmentation, developed and transformed from her artistic training and early production in Cuba in the 1980s through her move to the United States in 1991 and her subsequent recognition as a major figure in the international art world. Okwui Enwezor interprets Campos-Pons's expressive materials--reassembled fragments of lost traditions and symbols, and memories of personal and collective history, religion, and mythology--within the context of post-colonial theory. Handsomely designed and produced, this book offers an unprecedented opportunity to assess the significance and import of this challenging artist's work.
Pagina's
183
Conditie
Nieuw
Prijs
€ 35,00

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