Glenn Ligon
Untitled (I Am a Man)
- Paperback
96 pages
- Release Date
13 April 2018
Summary
An illustrated examination of Glenn Ligon’s iconic Untitled (I Am a Man) (1988)-a quotation, an appropriated text turned into an artifact.The iconic work Untitled (I Am a Man) (1988) by the important contemporary American artist Glenn Ligon is a quotation, an appropriated text turned into an artifact. The National Gallery of Art in Washington presents the work as a “representation-a signifier-of the actual signs carried by 1,300 striking African American sanitation workers in Memphis, made fa…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781846381928 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1846381924 |
| Author: | Gregg Bordowitz |
| Publisher: | Afterall Publishing |
| Imprint: | Afterall Publishing |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 96 |
| Release Date: | 13 April 2018 |
| Weight: | 238g |
| Dimensions: | 216mm x 152mm |
| Series: | Afterall Books / One Work |
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About The Author
Gregg Bordowitz
Gregg Bordowitz is an artist, writer, and Director of the Low Residency MFA Program at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Recipient of the 2006 Frank Jewitt Mather Award from the College Art Association, he is the author of The AIDS Crisis Is Ridiculous and Other Writings (1986-2003) (MIT Press) and General Idea- Imagevirus (Afterall Books/MIT Press).
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