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
120 pages : illustrations (some color), portraits ; 30 cm
Type:
Exhibitions
Date:
2013
Notes:
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.
Contents:
Lenders to the exhibition -- Foreword / Timothy Rub -- Vertical dreams: The Malcolm X Steles / Carlos Basualdo -- Malcolm X rising: Barbara Chase-Riboud's phenomenological art / Gwendolyn DuBois Shaw -- Plates -- The Malcolm Steles and the Silenced X -- / Barbara Chase-Riboud -- In the silk-and-bone shop of the heart: a meditation on the art of Barbara Chase-Riboud / Ellen Handler Spitz -- Illustrated checklist of the Malcolm X Steles / John Vick -- Chronology / John Vick
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.0Exhibition: Philadelphia Museum of Art, USA (14.09. - 08.12.2013) 0.
