Black Male. Representations of Masculinity In Contemporary American Art
New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 1994. 1st Edition. Octavo, publisher's black stiff paper wraps, spine and upper wrap stamped in white, upper wrap blindstamped.
Whitney Museum of American Art exhibition catalog for a pioneering show on the depiction of black men in art and culture by a diverse group of artists, including Jean-Michel Basquiat, Jeff Koons, Spike Lee, Glenn Ligon, Jennie Livingston, Robert Mapplethorpe, Gordon Parks, Carrie Mae Weems and others. Illustrated with 39 color and black-and-white plates, as well as numerous black-and-white photos and reproductions throughout text. With texts by a prestigious roster of critics, curators and academics, including Elizabeth Alexander, bell hooks, Andrew Ross, Greg Tate, and Henry Louis Gates, Jr., who contributes a preface: "The 'black male,' this exhibition discloses, is a social construction, more often than not, in our history, in need of confinement or control. These gender-racialized subjects oscillate through and against each other, forming an often ironic continuity in an era whose imagery ranges from the self-consciously questing, paramilitary bearing of the Black Panthers, to that image's opposite erasure in the diminutive figures of Gary Coleman and 'Webster,' all the way to the berobed and neutered conservative judicial presence of a Clarence Thomas...." With a bibliography, list of works exhibited, and notes on contributors. Some rubbing to upper wrap. Near fine. Item #12808
$150.00