Wangechi Mutu by Courtney J. Martin - ISBN: 9781838661649
Paperback
Myth-making art blending sexuality, ecology, and Kenyan roots, explored.

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  • Paperback

    160 pages

  • Release Date

    29 November 2022

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Summary

The first monograph on the work of celebrated and influential Kenyan-American artist Wangechi Mutu

Wangechi Mutu’s remarkable body of work touches on such issues as sexuality, ecology, politics, and the rhythms and chaos that govern the world. Her paintings, sculptures, and collages, often enriched with culturally-charged materials including tea, synthetic hair, Kenyan soil, feathers, and sand, interweave fact with fiction, generating a unique form of myth-making that…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781838661649
ISBN-10:1838661646
Author:Courtney J. Martin, Kellie Jones, Adrienne Edwards
Publisher:Phaidon Press Ltd
Imprint:Phaidon Press Ltd
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:160
Release Date:29 November 2022
Weight:1.04kg
Dimensions:290mm x 250mm x 16mm
Series:Phaidon Contemporary Artists Series
About The Author

Courtney J. Martin

Adrienne Edwards is Curator of Performance at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York.

Courtney J. Martin is Director of the Yale Center for British Art in New Haven.

Kellie Jones is Hans Hofmann Professor of Modern Art in the Departments of Art History & Archaeology, and African American & African Diaspora Studies at Columbia University.

Salah M. Hassan is Director of the Institute for Comparative Modernities at Cornell University, New York.

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