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Ralph Lemon

Title
Ralph Lemon / [edited and with text by] Thomas J. Lax.
Publication
  • New York, New York : The Museum of Modern Art, New York [2016]
  • ©2016

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Additional Authors
  • Lax, Thomas J.
  • Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.), issuing body.
Description
167 pages : illustrations (chiefly color); 25 cm
Summary
Ralph Lemon (born 1952) is one of the most significant figures to emerge from New Yorks downtown dance and performance world in the past 40 years. A polymath and shape-shifter, Lemon combines dance and theater with drawing, film, writing and ethnography in works presented on the stage, in publications and in museums. He builds his politically resonant and deeply personal projects in collaboration with dance makers and artists from New York, West Africa, South and East Asia, and the American South. Lemon, who was born in Cincinnati and raised in Minneapolis, describes his explorations as a "search for the forms of formlessness." Absorbing and transmuting fractured mythologies, social history and dance techniques from multiple geographies and decades, Lemons genre-transcending works perform an alchemy of past and present, reality and fantasy. This book, the first monograph on the artist, features a wide range of texts by scholars and performers, an original photo essay by Lemon and an extensive chronology.
Series Statement
Modern dance
Uniform Title
Modern dance (Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.))
Subjects
Genre/Form
Biography.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 160-162).
Contents
Foreword / Glenn D. Lowry -- Preface / David Velasco -- Shall we dance at MoMA? An introduction / Kathy Halbreich -- For starters / Thomas J. Lax -- Image essay / Ralph Lemon -- Easter eggs: a narrative chronology / Adrienne Edwards and Thomas J. Lax -- Dancing community: Ralph Lemon's choreography, 1981-95 / Deborah Jowitt -- The geography trilogy: take your body apart and put it back together / Katherine Profeta -- The affective physics of encounter: Ralph Lemon and Walter Carter / André Lepecki -- Toward a supreme constellation of being: a one-act play / Okwui Okpokwasili -- Fugitive value: Ralph Lemon and museums / Doryun Chong -- Radical dispossession: Ralph Lemon's Scaffold Room / Bartholomew Ryan -- Hard enough to enjoy / Fred Moten -- I set out in the morning / Will Rawls -- List of works -- Selected bibliography -- Contributor biographies -- Acknowledgments -- Photograph credits -- Trustees of the Museum of Modern Art
Call Number
*MGYB (Lemon) 16-4985
ISBN
  • 9781633450073
  • 1633450074
LCCN
2016936828
OCLC
956622774
Title
Ralph Lemon / [edited and with text by] Thomas J. Lax.
Publisher
New York, New York : The Museum of Modern Art, New York [2016]
Copyright Date
©2016
Type of Content
text
still image
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Series
Modern dance
Modern dance (Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.))
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 160-162).
Added Author
Lax, Thomas J., author, editor.
Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.), issuing body.
Research Call Number
*MGYB (Lemon) 16-4985
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