Research Catalog
Great force / [contributors, Amber Esseiva, Nicholas Mirzoeff, Rebecca Walker, The Racial Imaginary Institute ; artists, Radcliffe Bailey, Benae Beamon, Kevin Beasley [and twenty others] ; authors, James Baldwin, Frederick Douglass, Rebecca Walker [and three others] ; curator & editor, Amber Esseiva].
- Title
- Great force / [contributors, Amber Esseiva, Nicholas Mirzoeff, Rebecca Walker, The Racial Imaginary Institute ; artists, Radcliffe Bailey, Benae Beamon, Kevin Beasley [and twenty others] ; authors, James Baldwin, Frederick Douglass, Rebecca Walker [and three others] ; curator & editor, Amber Esseiva].
- Author
- Esseiva, Amber,
- Publication
- Richmond, VA : Institute for Contemporary Art at Virginia Commonwealth University, [2019]
- ©2019
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- Description
- 333 pages : color illustrations; 23 cm
- Summary
- "Catalogue to accompany the exhibition Great Force, curated by Amber Esseiva. Great Force will present work by an intergenerational group of artists who explore, complicate or make complex, the persistent force of black-white racial constructs in the United States. The exhibition, related program, and illustrated publication will catalyze public discussions about race, how to render new representations of the oppressed and the empowered and how artworks can become tools in a struggle to appear. Featuring artists Radcliffe Bailey, Benae Beamon, Kevin Beasley, Alexandra Bell, Paul Stephen Benjamin, Sedrick Chisom, Tony Cokes, Bethany Collins, Aria Dean, Tomashi Jackson, Richard Kennedy, Charlotte Lagarde, Glenn Ligon, Mores McWreath, Troy Michie, Shani Peters, Pope.L, Robert Pruitt, Claudia Rankine's The Racial Imaginary Institute, Paul Mpagi Sepuya, Xaviera Simmons, Sable Elyse Smith, and Carrie Mae Weems"--
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Exhibition catalogs.
- Note
- "Published to accompany the exhibition Great Force, organized by the Institute for Contemporary Art at Virginia Commonwealth University and curated by Associate Curator Amber Esseiva. The exhibition was on view October 5, 2019-January 5, 2020."
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Contents
- Great force / Amber Esseiva -- The Racial Imaginary Institute -- Leaving the intellectual plantation / Rebecca Walker -- Addressing appearance / Nicholas Mirzoeff -- The color line / Frederick Douglas -- White man's guilt / James Baldwin -- The history of white people / Nell Irvin Painter.
- Call Number
- NX180.R3
- ISBN
- 9781733784511
- 1733784519
- LCCN
- 2019948935
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries