Research Catalog

Details

Additional authors

1. Lovell, Whitfield, 1959-
2. Wije, Michèle
3. Forlenza, Pauline
4. Finley, Cheryl
5. Cooks, Bridget R., 1972-

Description

1. 170 pages : color illustrations; 30 cm

Summary

1. Catalog published on the occasion of the exhibition organized by the American Federation of Arts in collaboration with Whitfield Lovell.
2. "The most comprehensive survey to date of the contemporary artist Whitfield Lovell, whose poetic and intricately crafted tableaux and installations document and pay tribute to the history and cultural memory of the African American experience. Whitfield Lovell: Passages accompanies a major traveling exhibition of the artist's powerful Conté crayon drawings combined with objects to create assemblages and multisensory installations that focus on aspects of Black history, raising questions about identity, memory, and America's collective heritage. Whitfield Lovell (b. 1959, Bronx), a 2007 MacArthur Foundation fellowship recipient and conceptual artist, creates exquisite drawings inspired by his own collection of vintage photographs of unidentified African Americans taken between the Emancipation Proclamation and the civil rights movement. He pairs his meticulously rendered drawings done on paper or salvaged wooden boards with found objects, creating enigmatic assemblages and stand-alone tableaux that are rich with symbolism and ambiguity and evoke personal memories, ancestral connections, and the collective American past. This richly illustrated volume features essays by leading scholars that contextualize Lovell's work through the exploration of compelling elements such as sound and card playing, contemplating memory as method."--

Alternative title

1. Passages

Subject

1. Exhibition catalogs
2. Installations (Art)
3. African Americans in art
4. African American artists
5. Artists > United States
6. Lovell, Whitfield, 1959- > Exhibitions

Genre/Form

1. Exhibition catalogs.

Contents

1. Foreword / Pauline Forlenza -- Preface / Michèle Wije -- Whitfield Lovell: Memory as method / Cheryl Finley -- The hand you're dealt / Bridget R. Cooks -- Prologue: Works on paper -- Visitation: The Richmond Project -- Tableaux -- The Card Pieces -- Kin series -- Deep River -- The Reds -- About the artist -- Selected bibliography -- Selected public collections -- List of illustrations -- Artist acknowledgments -- Contributors -- Photography credits

Call number

1. N6537.L678

Owning institution

1. Columbia University Libraries

Note

1. Publication information from publisher's website