Lorraine O’Grady
Both/And
ed. with text by Catherine Morris, Aruna D’Souza ; texts by Harry Burke, Malik Gaines, Catherine Lord, Zoe Whitley, Stephanie Sparling Williams, Ann Pasternak

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Auteur(s)

Catherine Morris, Aruna D’Souza, Harry Burke, Malik Gaines, Catherine Lord, Zoe Whitley, Stephanie Sparling Williams, Ann Pasternak

Editor(s)

Catherine Morris, Aruna D’Souza

Uitgever, jaar

New York : Dancing Foxes icw Brooklyn Museum, 2021

Omvang

226 p., geïllustreerd, 27 cm.

ISBN

9780872731868

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Four decades of multimedia exploits in race, art politics and subjectivity: a long-overdue survey on conceptual performance artist Lorraine O’Grady, published on the occasion of the similar named exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum, NY, March 5 - July 18, 2021. Conceptual performance artist O'Grady burst into the contemporary art world in 1980 dressed in a gown made of 180 pairs of white gloves and wielding a chrysanthemum-studded whip. For the next three years, O’Grady documented her exploits as this incendiary fictional persona, visiting gallery openings and providing critiques of the racial politics at play in the New York art scene. The resulting series, Mlle Bourgeoise Noire, was merely the beginning of a long career of avant-garde work that would continue to build upon O’Grady’s conceptions of self and subjectivity as seen from the perspective of a Black woman artist. This survey of O’Grady’s work spans her career and features nearly all of her major projects, contextualized by an extensive timeline with letters, journal entries and interviews.

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Persoon als onderwerp

Lorraine O’Grady

Locatie in de bibliotheek

Kast 6 - 3: Kunstenaars

Opmerkingen

Incl. notes, chronology, Bibliography