Author: CHASE-RIBOUD, BARBARA
Title: Barbara Chase-Riboud : the Malcolm X steles / edited by Carlos Basualdo ; texts by Carlos Basualdo, Barbara Chase-Riboud, Gwendolyn DuBois Shaw, Ellen Handler Spitz ; chronology by John Vick
Description: Philadelphia. PA : Philadelphia Museum of Art in association with Yale University Press 2013. First Edition. An exceptional copy. bound in colour-illus. boards. Particularly well-preserved; tight. bright. clean and especially sharp-cornered. Literally as new and still in the publisher's protective shrink-wrap.; 8vo 8' - 9' tall; 120 pages; 120 pages : illustrations (some color). portraits ; 30 cm. Catalogue of an exhibition at Philadelphia Museum of Art. held September 14. 2013-January 20. 2014 and the University of California. Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive. February 12-April 27. 2014. Summary: Born in Philadelphia and living and working between Paris and Rome. Barbara Chase-Riboud is an internationally celebrated visual artist. novelist and poet. This important publication focuses on her monumental series of sculptures dedicated to the assassinated civil rights leader Malcolm X. Begun in 1969. Chase-Riboud's series is explored in terms of developing artistic practice; her travels to China and North Africa; and her experiences in Europe. particularly during the cultural. political and social upheavals of the 1960s. The volume also includes a fascinating analysis of the Malcom X sculptures in light of critical debates on abstract art's role in memorialising the past. This book presents an illustrated checklist of the 13 sculptures in the series. related drawings and sculptures. and a chronology of Chase-Riboud's life and career.Weight in Kg appr.:

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