Chakaia Booker : The Observance
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Hardback or Cased Book
ISBN-10
377743809X
ISBN-13
9783777438092
Publisher
Hirmer Verlag
Imprint
Hirmer Verlag
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Mar 23rd, 2023
Print length
200 Pages
Weight
1,042 grams
Dimensions
22.40 x 31.30 x 2.20 cms
Product Classification:
History of art & design styles: from c 1900 -History of artIndividual artists, art monographs
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This publication accompanies the first comprehensive museum survey of the American artist.
Chakaia Booker: The Observance explores the artist?s signature form?monumental works made of rubber?while showcasing her artistic innovations across mediums. With new photography of the wide-ranging exhibition at ICA Miami, historic images, and newly commissioned scholarship, the publication illuminates key themes in the artist?s practice. With special attention to Booker?s totemic and anthropomorphic assemblages fabricated from cast-off tires, the volume highlights Booker?s ongoing expression of ecological and technological concerns, examinations of racial and economic disparities, and her interest in the symbolism of the automobile in American culture.
Alongside essays by Erin Jenoa Gilbert, Aruna d?Souza, and Stephanie Seidel as well as an interview with the artist by Alex Gartenfeld, this catalog includes some of Booker?s most topical works, including Chu Ching (2012), a cross on a wheelbarrow that resembles Jesus being dismounted from the cross. The artist?s photographic series, ?Foundling Warrior Quest? (2010) and ?Graveyard Series? (1995), are featured to explore the importance of performance and mythology in her practice. Anchoring the book is The Observance (1995), an immersive installation made of deconstructed rubber tires and tubes?Booker?s first large-scale installation in this signature material, chosen by the artist for its associations with riots.
Chakaia Booker: The Observance explores the artist?s signature form?monumental works made of rubber?while showcasing her artistic innovations across mediums. With new photography of the wide-ranging exhibition at ICA Miami, historic images, and newly commissioned scholarship, the publication illuminates key themes in the artist?s practice. With special attention to Booker?s totemic and anthropomorphic assemblages fabricated from cast-off tires, the volume highlights Booker?s ongoing expression of ecological and technological concerns, examinations of racial and economic disparities, and her interest in the symbolism of the automobile in American culture.
Alongside essays by Erin Jenoa Gilbert, Aruna d?Souza, and Stephanie Seidel as well as an interview with the artist by Alex Gartenfeld, this catalog includes some of Booker?s most topical works, including Chu Ching (2012), a cross on a wheelbarrow that resembles Jesus being dismounted from the cross. The artist?s photographic series, ?Foundling Warrior Quest? (2010) and ?Graveyard Series? (1995), are featured to explore the importance of performance and mythology in her practice. Anchoring the book is The Observance (1995), an immersive installation made of deconstructed rubber tires and tubes?Booker?s first large-scale installation in this signature material, chosen by the artist for its associations with riots.
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