Basketball & Contemporary Art
$87.75
- Hardcover
272 pages
- Release Date
3 June 2021
Summary
Common Practice seeks to examine the ways in which contemporary art relates with the sport and surrounding culture of basketball.
Basketball has long proven to inform and inspire works of art across generations, from David Hammon’s “Higher Goals” and Robert Indiana’s “Mecca Floor”, to the current day works of Nina Chanel Abney and Titus Kaphar. Many of the artists represented have at one point or more throughout their practice shared an interest in utilizing the ubiqu…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9788857243979 |
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| ISBN-10: | 8857243974 |
| Author: | Dan Peterson, John Dennis, Carlos Rolón |
| Publisher: | Skira |
| Imprint: | Skira |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 272 |
| Release Date: | 3 June 2021 |
| Weight: | 1.98kg |
| Dimensions: | 240mm x 280mm |
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Critics Review
The comprehensive tome sheds light on over a century of artwork from over 200 leading artists…Common Practice is the first illustrated publication to analyze this overlap between art and sport. “This book argues that the need to rehearse, discover and explore through the act of doing makes these two very different ideas of perfecting one’s craft very similar.”–Keith Estiler “Hypebeast”
A new book brings together the works of 250 artists, among them Richard Avedon, Salvador Dalí, Keith Haring and Andy Warhol, to offer an inclusive view of the sport from the modern lens.–Miss Rosen “Huck”
Dan Peterson
Carlos Rolón is a visual artist known for his multi-disciplinary practice whose work explores themes of craft, ritual, beauty, spirituality, identity and its relationship to art history and the institution.
Dan Peterson is the founder of Project Backboard, a non profit organization devoted to renovating basketball courts and improving public spaces across the country through art and community. 10% of book sales of “Common Practice” will go to supporting Project Backboard.
John Dennis is a film maker and photographer whose work involves helping build and amplify artists voices. As an advocate for the arts, one of his current roles is creative lead at NXTHVN, an arts incubator and residency program based in New Haven, CT.
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