{"product_id":"kerry-james-marshall-history-of-painting-hardcover","title":"Kerry James Marshall: History of Painting - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eTeju Cole\u003c\/b\u003e (Text by (Art\/Photo Books)), \u003cb\u003eKerry James Marshall\u003c\/b\u003e (Artist), \u003cb\u003eHal Foster\u003c\/b\u003e (Text by (Art\/Photo Books))\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eKerry James Marshall is one of America's greatest living painters. \u003ci\u003eHistory of Painting\u003c\/i\u003e presents a groundbreaking body of new work that engages with the history of the medium itself.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eHistory of Painting\u003c\/i\u003e, the artist has widened his scope to include both figurative and nonfigurative works that deal explicitly with art history, race, and gender, as well as force us to reexamine how artworks are received in the world and in the art market. In the paintings in this book, Marshall's critique of history and of dominant white narratives is present, even as the subjects of the paintings move between reproductions of auction catalogues, abstract works, and scenes of everyday life. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eEssays by Teju Cole and Hal Foster help readers navigate the artist's masterful vision, decoding complexly layered works such as \u003ci\u003eUntitled\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003e(Underpainting)\u003c\/i\u003e (2018) and Marshall's own artistic philosophy. This catalogue is published on the occasion of Marshall's eponymous exhibition at David Zwirner, London, in 2018.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThrough its formal acuity, \u003cb\u003eKerry James Marshall\u003c\/b\u003e's (b. 1955) work reveals and questions the social constructs of beauty, taste, and power. As the artist has written, 'I gave up on the idea of making Art a long time ago, because I wanted to know how to make \u003ci\u003epaintings\u003c\/i\u003e; but once I came to know that, reconsidering the question of what Art is returned as a critical issue.' Engaged in an ongoing dialogue with six centuries of representational painting, Marshall has deftly reinterpreted and updated its tropes, compositions, and styles, even pulling talismans from the canvases of his forbearers and recontextualizing them within a modern setting. At the center of his prodigious oeuvre, which also includes drawings and sculpture, is the critical recognition of the conditions of invisibility so long ascribed to black bodies in the Western pictorial tradition, and the creation of what he calls a 'counter-archive' that reinscribes these figures within its narrative arc. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eTeju Cole\u003c\/b\u003e is an essayist, photographer, curator, and the author of \u003ci\u003eOpen City\u003c\/i\u003e (2011) and \u003ci\u003eBlind Spot \u003c\/i\u003e(2017), among other books. His honors include the PEN\/Hemingway Award, the Internationaler Literaturpreis, the Windham Campbell Prize, the Rosenthal Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and a Guggenheim Fellowship. His photography has been the subject of solo exhibitions in Milan, Berlin, Zurich, and New York, and he has given several distinguished lectureships. Originally trained as an art historian, he has written the \"On Photography\" column for \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e since 2015. Born in the United States and raised in Nigeria, Cole is currently the Gore Vidal Professor of the Practice of Creative Writing at Harvard University. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eHal Foster\u003c\/b\u003e has been a force in American art criticism since the late 1970s, bringing psychoanalytic and poststructural theory to bear on contemporary art and its historical precedents. In 1983 he edited the anthology \u003ci\u003eThe Anti-Aesthetic: Essays on Postmodern Culture\u003c\/i\u003e, which helped frame postmodernism within the arts. Foster began to write for \u003ci\u003eArtforum\u003c\/i\u003e in 1978 and was a senior editor at \u003ci\u003eArt in America\u003c\/i\u003e (1981-1987) before becoming a coeditor of the journal \u003ci\u003eOctober\u003c\/i\u003e in 1991, and contributes frequently to \u003ci\u003eArtforum\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eOctober\u003c\/i\u003e, and the \u003ci\u003eLondon Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e. His books include \u003ci\u003eRecodings: Art, Spectacle, Cultural Politics\u003c\/i\u003e (1985), \u003ci\u003eCompulsive Beauty\u003c\/i\u003e (1993), \u003ci\u003eThe Return of the Real\u003c\/i\u003e (1996), \u003ci\u003eDesign and Crime\u003c\/i\u003e (2002), \u003ci\u003eThe Art-Architecture Complex\u003c\/i\u003e (2011), \u003ci\u003eThe First Pop Age\u003c\/i\u003e (2012), and \u003ci\u003eBad New Days: Art, Criticism, Emergency\u003c\/i\u003e (2015). He is the Townsend Martin, Class of 1917, Professor of Art and Archaeology at Princeton University.\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 96\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.6 x 10.1 x 9.2 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 17, 2019\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51770388021536,"sku":"9781644230152","price":60.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/97a7308c96e496d33032df921d1eda53.webp?v=1780370692","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/kerry-james-marshall-history-of-painting-hardcover","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}