Author: BASUALDO, CARLOS
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: New Haven. CT New haven ; London : Philadelphia Museum of Art ; In association with Yale University Press 2013. First Edition. Fine copy in the original color-printed boards. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight. bright. clean and especially sharp-cornered. Literally as new. still in the publisher's original shrink wrap. Physical description; 120 pages : illustrations (black and white. and colour). portraits ; 30 cm. 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 Malcolm X sculptures in light of critical debates on abstract art's role in memorializing the past. Beautifully designed and produced. 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. Subjects; Chase-Riboud. Barbara — Exhibitions. African American sculpture — Exhibitions. ISBN: 0876332467. Weight in Kg appr.:

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