Seeing Differently: The Phillips Collects for a New Century - David C. Driskell

Descriere Seeing Differently: The Phillips Collects for a New Century - David C. Driskell

\nBlack Art: In the Absence of Light, is a new documentary about celebrated art historian and artist David C. Driskell, who is featured prominently in Seeing Differently: The Phillips Collects for a New Century. Other names you'll recognize from the book in the documentary include Kerry James Marshall, Kara Walker, and Lyle Ashton Harris. Catch it on HBOMax Planned to coincide with The Phillips Collection's centennial and exhibition, Seeing Differently is a ground-breaking volume. It offers an unprecedented breadth of insights and inclusive narratives on the Phillips's growing art collection from a range of voices, including artists, critics, and scholars.Seeing Differently features works across wide-ranging media by renowned artists from the 19th to the 21st centuries, including Benny Andrews, Alexander Calder, Edgar Degas, Simone Leigh, and Ren e Stout. An opening essay by Dorothy Kosinski, artist conversations, thematic essays, and over 200 plates with 49 object responses by notable contributors, ensure that this will be a lasting art historical resource. \nTop 10 Title, Art/Architecture/Photography, Publishers Weekly Spring 2021 Announcement IssueThe Phillips Collection--America's first museum of modern art--was founded in Washington, DC, in 1921 by Duncan Phillips as a memorial to his father, Duncan Clinch Phillips, and his brother, James, who died in the 1918 Spanish flu epidemic. Recognizing the healing power of art, Phillips sought to inspire others to see beautifully as true artists see. This ground-breaking volume, planned in conjunction with the museum's centennial, offers an unprecedented breadth of insights and inclusive narratives on the Phillips's growing art collection from a range of voices, including artists, curators, and critics, who shed light on the museum's acquisitions since 2000.Seeing Differently features diverse artistic expressions across wide-ranging media by renowned artists from the 19th to the 21st centuries, including John Akomfrah, Benny Andrews, Esther Bubley, Edgar Degas, Anselm Kiefer, Simone Leigh, and Aim� Mpane. This richly illustrated book includes an opening essay by Phillips director Dorothy Kosinski, artist conversations with John Edmonds, Whitfield Lovell, Alyson Shotz, and the late David C. Driskell, and 11 thematic essays by scholars and practitioners across disciplines. Its over 200 plates feature paintings, sculptures, videos, quilts, prints, and photographs, many with object responses by notable

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Giles

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9781911282761

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