Research Catalog

Details

Additional authors

1. Hoptman, Laura J., 1962-
2. Goode-Bryant, Linda
3. Nengudi, Senga, 1943-
4. Talamon, Bruce
5. Drawing Center (New York, N.Y.), host institution. http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/his

Description

1. 129 pages, 14 unnumbered pages : illustrations (some color), portraits (some color); 23 cm.

Summary

1. "The first book dedicated to these pivotal early works on paper, David Hammons: Body Prints, 1968-1979 brings together the monoprints and collages in which the artist used the body as both a drawing tool and printing plate to explore performative, unconventional forms of image-making. Hammons created the body prints by greasing his own body--or that of another person--with substances including margarine and baby oil, pressing or rolling body parts against paper, and sprinkling the surface with charcoal and powdered pigment. The resulting impressions are intimately direct indexes of faces, skin and hair that exist somewhere between spectral portraits and physical traces. Hammons' body prints represent the origin of his artistic language, one that has developed over a long and continuing career and that emphasizes both the artifacts and subjects of contemporary Black life in the United States. More than a half century after they were made, these early works on paper exemplify Hammons' celebration of the sacredness of objects touched or made by the Black body, and his biting critique of racial oppression. The body prints highlighted in this volume introduce the major themes of a 50-year career that has become central to the history of postwar American art. The book features a conversation between curator and activist Linda Goode Bryant and artist Senga Nengudi, as well as a photo essay by photographer Bruce W. Talamon, who documented Hammons at work in his Los Angeles studio in 1974."

Series statement

1. Drawing papers ; number 144

Uniform title

1. Drawing papers ; 144.

Alternative title

1. Body prints, 1968-1979

Subject

1. Exhibition catalogs
2. Hammons, David, 1943- > Exhibitions

Genre/Form

1. Exhibition catalogs.

Contents

1. An introduction: David Hammons's body prints / Laura Hoptman -- In conversation / Linda Goode Bryant and Senga Nengudi -- Plates -- David Hammons, photographs 1974-1989 / Bruce W. Talamon -- Works in the exhibition -- Artist's coda.

Owning institution

1. Columbia University Libraries

Note

1. Published on the occasion of an exhibition of the same name held at The Drawing Center, New York, February 5-May 23, 2021.

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references.