Bøger af Rebecca McGrew

Creating a discourse between Eastern "otherness" and Western concepts of beautyLos Angeles-based artist Hayv Kahraman (born 1981) creates exquisite paintings and other wall works that address diasporic cultural memory, feminine collectivity and gender identity through her personal history as an Iraqi émigré first to Europe, then to the US. This artist's book explores how her visual language merges her biography as an immigrant in a multiplicity of styles--including Persian miniatures, Japanese illustrations and Italian Renaissance paintings--creating a discourse between Eastern "otherness" and Western concepts of beauty. The key figure in the paintings represents Kahraman as a colonized woman; the repetitive nature of her work and the act of shredding and mending presents a history of displacement, loss and trauma. The book includes never-before-published images of the artist's work and her performance texts, plus new essays and poetry.

R.S.V.P. Los Angeles: The Project Series at Pomona celebrates the 50th Project Series at Pomona College with a milestone exhibition connecting the extraordinary artists who have participated in the Project Series to a new generation of artists working in Southern California. The accompanying catalogue features seven artists--Justin Cole, Michael Decker, Naotaka Hiro, Wakana Kimura, Aydinaneth Ortiz, Michael Parker and Nikki Pressley--and is unified by a unique curatorial process. R.S.V.P. Los Angeles contextualizes the art of the late 20th and early 21st centuries in Los Angeles through the lens of the Project Series. This volume includes essays on the history of the series, the artists, the themes connecting them and an annotated chronology of the Project Series exhibitions 1 through 50.

Jose Clemente Orozco's 1930 mural, Prometheus, created for the Pomona College campus, is a dramatic and gripping examination of heroism. This thoughtful exhibition catalogue examines the multiple ways Orozco's vision resonates with four artists working in Mexico today: Isa Carrillo, Adela Goldbard, Rita Ponce de Leo n, and Naomi Rinco n-Gallardo.