Black Light
Kehinde Wiley painted President Obama's official portrait and this is an early book from him documenting his extraordinary talents.For most of Kehinde Wiley's very successful career, he has created large, vibrant, highly patterned paintings of young African American men wearing the latest in hip hop street fashion. The theatrical poses and objects in the portraits are based on well-known images of powerful figures drawn from seventeenth- through nineteenth-century Western art. Pictorially, Wiley gives the authority of those historical sitters to his twenty-first-century subjects.-National Portrait Gallery My intention is to craft a world pict…
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Weitere Autoren: Jackson, Brian Keith (Beitr.) / Thompson, Krista A. (Beitr.)
- ISBN: 978-1-57687-486-8
- EAN: 9781576874868
- Produktnummer: 28534114
- Verlag: Random House N.Y.
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2009
- Seitenangabe: 56 S.
Über den Autor
Kehinde Wiley received his MFA from Yale University in 2001. Shortly after, he became an artist-in-residence at the Studio Museum in Harlem. He is represented by Deitch Projects, New York, Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, and Roberts and Tilton, Los Angeles. His work has been exhibited internationally and is in the permanent collections of many museums, including the Brooklyn Museum, New York, the Miami Art Museum, Miami, and the Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit. Brian Keith Jackson is an award-winning author of three novels, playwright, and arts and culture writer. His work has appeared in publications and as wall text for private and public art institutions, as well as in The New York Times, National Public Radio, New York Magazine, the London Observer, Vibe, and Paper, among others.
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