Ku Klux Klan (1915- ) Multimedia installation Search this
Physical description:
64 pages : color illustrations (two folded) ; 23 cm
Type:
Pictorial works
Exhibitions
Place:
Southern States
United States
Date:
2017
20th century
Notes:
Published on the occasion of the exhibit: Laying-By Time: Revisiting the Works of William A. Christenberry at Maryland Institute College of Art, Decker Gallery: Fox Building, Baltimore, Maryland, December 9, 2016 - March 12, 2017.
Summary:
Laying-by Time highlights a broad sample of work by William Christenberry. Drawing on his explorations, recollections and interpretations of Hale County, Ala., Christenberry balanced the beauty, hopefulness and resilience of the deep south against its tensions, pathos and flaws. Moving fluidly between painting, photography, sculpture and drawing, the artist wove a story that is simultaneously celebratory and melancholy, inviting and inhospitable. The exhibition includes examples of the artist's lesser-known works alongside iconic imagery, as well as the charged and rarely exhibited Klan Room Tableau, a dense multimedia installation that is his response to the Ku Klux Klan and human capacity for hatred and violence. The exhibition is an opportunity to consider the artist's practice and influences, as well as his work's relevance against a backdrop of contemporary concerns.-from publisher website.
