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Simone Leigh

Title
  1. Simone Leigh / edited by Eva Respini.
Published by
  1. Boston : Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston ; New York : DelMonico Books, [2023]
  2. ©2023

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Additional authors
  1. Respini, Eva
  2. Leigh, Simone
  3. Medvedow, Jill
  4. Hartman, Saidiya V.
  5. Silva, Denise Ferreira da
  6. Bradley, Rizvana
  7. Price, Yasmina
  8. Agard-Jones, Vanessa
  9. Miller, Sequoia
  10. Parker, Rianna Jade
  11. McKittrick, Katherine
  12. King, Daniella Rose
  13. Nelson, Steven, 1962-
  14. Lynne, Jessica
  15. Rhodes-Pitts, Sharifa
  16. Sharpe, Christina Elizabeth
  17. Spillers, Hortense J.
  18. Pullagura, Anni A.
  19. Ochieng' Nyongó, Tavia Amolo
  20. McMillan, Uri
  21. Masilela, Nomaduma Rosa
  22. Gaines, Malik
  23. O'Grady, Lorraine
  24. Brand, Dionne, 1953-
  25. Institute of Contemporary Art (Boston, Mass.), publisher, organizer, host institution.
  26. DelMonico Books, publisher.
  27. Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, host institution.
  28. Los Angeles County Museum of Art, host institution.
  29. California African-American Museum, host institution.
Description
  1. 365 pages : illustrations (chiefly color); 30 cm
Summary
  1. "The first major monograph on Simone Leigh's multimedia explorations of community, Black feminism and the traditions and material cultures of the African diaspora. Over the past two decades, Simone Leigh has created artwork that situates questions of Black femme-identified subjectivity at the center of contemporary art discourse. Her sculpture, video, installation and social practice explore ideas of race, beauty and community in visual and material culture. Leigh's art addresses a wide swath of historical periods, geographies and traditions, with specific references to materials across the African diaspora, as well as forms traditionally associated with African art and architecture. This publication includes substantial new scholarship addressing Leigh's work across mediums and topics. The volume, timed with a major exhibition and national tour of the artist's work, includes contributions by her longtime collaborators, new scholars who add diverse insights and perspectives, and a conversation highlighting Leigh's voice. Additionally, generous and lushly illustrated plates feature her critically acclaimed work for the 59th Venice Biennale and works made throughout her 20-year career. A special section featuring Leigh's research images gives access to Leigh's research methodologies and encourages readers to fully engage with all aspects of Leigh's work. This monograph provides a timely opportunity to gain a holistic understanding of the complex and profoundly moving work of this groundbreaking artist." --
Subject
  1. Artists
  2. Sculpture, Modern
  3. Sculpture, American
  4. Art, Modern
  5. Art, American
  6. African American artists
  7. African American women artists
  8. African American sculpture
  9. African American sculptors
  10. Illustrated works
  11. Criticism and interpretation
  12. Black author
  13. Exhibition catalogs
  14. Catalog
  15. 2000-2099
  16. United States
  17. Sculpture, Modern > 21st century > Exhibitions
  18. Sculpture, American > 21st century > Exhibitions
  19. Artists > United States > 21st century > Exhibitions
  20. Art, Modern > 21st century > Exhibitions
  21. Art, American > 21st century > Exhibitions
  22. African American artists > 21st century > Exhibitions
  23. African American women artists > 21st century > Exhibitions
  24. African American sculpture > 21st century > Exhibitions
  25. African American sculptors > 21st century > Exhibitions
  26. Leigh, Simone > Criticism and interpretation
  27. Leigh, Simone > Exhibitions
Genre/Form
  1. Exhibition catalogs.
  2. Illustrated works.
  3. Catalog.
Contents
  1. Foreword / Jill Medvedow -- Introduction: Simone Leigh, sculpting time / Eva Respini -- Plates -- Extended notes on the riot / Saidiya Hartman -- "If you never...you don't...": the aesthetic (forms) of refusal / Denise Ferreira da Silva -- Plates -- Awaiting her verb / Rizvana Bradley -- Passing the torch: Black women, intimacy, and arson in Conspiracy / Yasmina Price -- Plates -- Clay's memory / Vanessa Agard-Jones -- The ceramics of Simone Leigh / Sequoia Miller -- Women in the yard: the legacy of Afro-Jamaican ceramics / Rianna Jade Parker -- Plates -- A glossary of the tangible and unfettered / Katherine McKittrick -- Simone Leigh: Caribbean Diasporas and cleansing the "colonial stain" / Daniella Rose King -- Plates -- Simone Leigh: the alchemy of architecture / Steven Nelson -- The vernacular revered / Jessica Lynne -- Survival theory, or, the idea of Africa / Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts -- Plates -- Simone Leigh: "a journey to scale" / Christina Sharpe -- Simone Leigh and the monumental / Hortense J. Spillers -- Plates -- Chronology of social sculpture works / Anni A. Pullagura -- Simone Leigh's social sculpture / Tavia Nyong'o -- Plates -- Be Black baby! Simone Leigh's Performance Commons / Uri McMillan -- Roving notes through an embodied archive that presents something "more true than fact" / Nomaduma Masilela -- Conversation / Malik Gaines, Simone Leigh, and Lorraine O'Grady -- Plates -- Works in the exhibition -- Acknowledgments -- Contributors -- Lenders to the exhibition -- Supporters -- The Trustees of the Institute of Contemporary Art Boston -- Reproduction credits -- Index -- Ars diagnostic / Dionne Brand.
Call number
  1. Sc+ F 24-12
Note
  1. This book was published on the occasion of the exhibition, Simone Leigh, organized by the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston and held at the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston, April 6-September 4, 2023, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C., November 3, 2023-March 3, 2024, and jointly at Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) and California African American Museum (CAAM) in Los Angeles May 2024-January 2025.
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Title
  1. Simone Leigh / edited by Eva Respini.
Publisher
  1. Boston : Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston ; New York : DelMonico Books, [2023]
Copyright date
  1. ©2023
Type of content
  1. text
  2. still image
Type of medium
  1. unmediated
Type of carrier
  1. volume
Bibliography
  1. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Chronological term
  1. 2000-2099
Local subject
  1. Black author.
Added author
  1. Respini, Eva, editor, writer of introduction.
  2. Leigh, Simone, artist, contributor.
  3. Medvedow, Jill, writer of foreword.
  4. Hartman, Saidiya V., contributor.
  5. Silva, Denise Ferreira da, contributor.
  6. Bradley, Rizvana, contributor.
  7. Price, Yasmina, contributor.
  8. Agard-Jones, Vanessa, contributor.
  9. Miller, Sequoia, contributor.
  10. Parker, Rianna Jade, contributor.
  11. McKittrick, Katherine, contributor.
  12. King, Daniella Rose, contributor.
  13. Nelson, Steven, 1962- contributor.
  14. Lynne, Jessica, contributor.
  15. Rhodes-Pitts, Sharifa, contributor.
  16. Sharpe, Christina Elizabeth, contributor.
  17. Spillers, Hortense J., contributor.
  18. Pullagura, Anni A., contributor.
  19. Ochieng' Nyongó, Tavia Amolo, contributor.
  20. McMillan, Uri, contributor.
  21. Masilela, Nomaduma Rosa, contributor.
  22. Gaines, Malik, contributor.
  23. O'Grady, Lorraine, contributor.
  24. Brand, Dionne, 1953- contributor.
  25. Institute of Contemporary Art (Boston, Mass.), publisher, organizer, host institution.
  26. DelMonico Books, publisher.
  27. Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, host institution.
  28. Los Angeles County Museum of Art, host institution.
  29. California African-American Museum, host institution.
ISBN
  1. 9781636810782 (hardback)
  2. 1636810780 (hardback)
Research call number
  1. Sc+ F 24-12
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