Adrian Piper. A Retrospective
Baltimore: Fine Arts Gallery, University of Maryland, 1999. 1st Edition. Quarto, publisher's stiff illustrated paper wraps, french flaps, red endpapers.
Catalog published in conjunction with a traveling retrospective on Adrian Piper organized by the Fine Arts Gallery at University of Maryland, in 1999. A conceptual artist and analytic philosopher born to a Black mother and white father in Harlem, Piper has worked across various mediums (performance, video installation, photography, drawing, and text) since the 1960s. Her diverse and primarily political work is known for provocatively confronting the viewer’s biases regarding race, gender, class, and identity. Assembled by art historian and the exhibition’s curator Maurice Berger, this monograph surveys Piper’s output over the course of thirty years. Illustrated with color and black-and-white plates of objects, videos, prints, posters, and installations; with essays Piper, Jean Fisher, Kobena Mercer, Laura Cottingham, and Dara Meyers-Kingsley, an exhibition checklist, and bibliography. The copy of New York Times Book Review editor Mel Watkins, with his signed book mark and a note to him from the publishers laid in. Fine. Item #11958
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