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Wangechi Mutu : I am speaking, are you listening?

Title
Wangechi Mutu : I am speaking, are you listening? / Claudia Schmuckli with Isaac Julien and Wangechi Mutu.
Author
Schmuckli, Claudia
Publication
  • San Francisco, CA : Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco ; New York, NY : DelMonico Books · D.A.P., [2021]
  • ©2021

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Additional Authors
  • Julien, Isaac
  • Wangechi Mutu
  • Legion of Honor (San Francisco, Calif.), host institution.
Description
159 pages, 9 unnumbered pages : color illustrations; 28 cm
Summary
"Wangechi Mutu takes viewers on journeys of material, psychological and sociopolitical transformation; this volume explores her most recent groundbreaking work. Over the past two decades, Mutu has created chimerical constellations of powerful female characters, hybrid beings and fantastical landscapes. With a rare understanding of the need for powerful new mythologies beyond simple binaries and stereotypes, Mutu breaches common distinctions between human, animal, plant and machine. An artist who calls both Nairobi and New York City home, Mutu moves voraciously between cultural traditions to challenge colonialist, racist and sexist worldviews with her visionary projection of an alternate universe informed by Afrofuturism, posthumanism and feminism. This dazzling book accompanies a presentation of Mutu's new work on view at the Legion, along with a greater selection from her landmark oeuvre. It is the most comprehensive book on the artist to date."--Provided by publisher.
Alternative Title
I am speaking, are you listening?
Subjects
Genre/Form
  • Exhibition catalogs.
  • Interviews.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
Exhibitions (note)
  • Published on the occasion of the exhibition Wangechi Mutu: I am speaking, are you listening? at the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, May 7-November 7, 2021.
Contents
Foreword / Thomas P. Campbell -- Art as a "weapon of mass construction" / Claudia Schmuckli -- Making histories / Wangechi Mutu in conversation with Isaac Julien and Claudia Schmuckli -- I am speaking / Wangechi Mutu -- Gallery -- Checklist of the exhibition -- Acknowledgments.
Call Number
Sc F 22-133
ISBN
  • 9781636810058
  • 1636810055
OCLC
1256542293
Author
Schmuckli, Claudia, author, curator, interviewer.
Title
Wangechi Mutu : I am speaking, are you listening? / Claudia Schmuckli with Isaac Julien and Wangechi Mutu.
Publisher
San Francisco, CA : Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco ; New York, NY : DelMonico Books · D.A.P., [2021]
Copyright Date
©2021
Type of Content
still image
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references.
Exhibitions
Published on the occasion of the exhibition Wangechi Mutu: I am speaking, are you listening? at the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, May 7-November 7, 2021.
Chronological Term
2000-2099
Added Author
Julien, Isaac, interviewer.
Wangechi Mutu, artist, author, interviewee.
Legion of Honor (San Francisco, Calif.), host institution.
Research Call Number
Sc F 22-133
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