Research Catalog

Details

Additional authors

1. Desrosiers, Daisy
2. Colby College. Museum of Art, host institution

Description

1. 143 pages : illustrations (some color), portraits; 24 cm

Summary

1. "This book features essays and other reflections commissioned in response to the Facsimile Cabinet of Women Origin Stories, a monumental participatory work by Theaster Gates (born 1973). The Cabinet includes nearly 3,000 framed images of women from the Johnson Publishing Company archive, and highlights from the collection appear in this edited volume. Founded in 1942, Chicago-based Johnson Publishing chronicled the lives of Black Americans for more than seven decades through the magazines Ebony and Jet. Composed from arguably the most important archive of American Black visual culture in the 20th century, Gates' work centers the essential and too often unsung role of women in this history. When the Cabinet was exhibited at the Colby College Museum of Art, 12 women from a wide range of disciplines (including archivists, legal scholars, anthropologists and librarians, as well as curators, visual artists, filmmakers, writers and art historians) were invited to reflect on a work that brings a sisterhood of images to light."--Publisher's website.

Alternative title

1. Facsimile cabinet of women origin stories : reflections

Subject

1. Gates, Theaster, 1973- -- Exhibitions
2. Gates, Theaster, 1973- -- Themes, motives
3. Gates, Theaster, 1973-
4. Johnson Publishing Company (Chicago, Ill.)
5. African American artists -- Exhibitions
6. Women, Black, in art -- Exhibitions
7. African American women in art -- Exhibitions
8. African American women -- Pictorial works
9. Installations (Art) -- United States
10. African American artists
11. Installations (Art)
12. Themes, motives
13. Women, Black, in art
14. United States

Genre/Form

1. Exhibition catalogs.

Contents

1. Foreword / Jacqueline Terrassa -- Preface / Daisy Desrosiers -- Introduction / Theaster Gates -- Parents, take your children to Theaster Gates's Facsimile cabinet of women origin stories / Krista Aronson -- A Black woman's ephemera, an archival reflection / Dorothy Berry -- Reflections on the resilience of Black women / Danielle M. Conway -- Heart of the matter / Elizabeth Finch -- Ebony, Jet, and the gift of second sight: Theaster Gates's Facsimile cabinet of women origin stories as a miraculous moment / Cheryl Townsend Gilkes -- Hundreds of boats were used to bring people from their flooded homes to safety / Lareese Hall -- Personal reflections on Theaster Gates's Facsimile cabinet of women origin stories / Lynn McKinley-Grant -- A catalog of artifacts and unrealized ideas: a response / Erin Murphy -- Reach / Asma Naeem -- Chords of reverence / Ellen Y. Tani -- Hu: a series of poetic episodes in response to Theaster Gates's Facsimile cabinet of women origin stories / Arisa White -- Cabinet playlist / Briana Williams.

Call number

1. Sc E 22-1461

Author

1. Gates, Theaster, 1973- artist.

Title

1. Theaster Gates : Facsimile cabinet of women origin stories : reflections / Daisy Desrosiers, editor.

Publisher

1. Waterville, Maine : Lunder Institute for American Art at Colby College Museum of Art ; New York : DelMonico Books, 2021.

Copyright date

1. © 2021

Type of content

1. text
2. still image

Type of medium

1. unmediated

Type of carrier

1. volume

Added author

1. Desrosiers, Daisy, editor.
2. Colby College. Museum of Art, host institution.

LCCN

1. 2021914643

ISBN

1. 9781636810089 paperback
2. 163681008X paperback

Research call number

1. Sc E 22-1461