Henry Taylor : B side
"Surveying 30 years of Henry Taylor's work in painting, sculpture and installation, this comprehensive monograph celebrates a Los Angeles artist widely appreciated for his unique aesthetic, social vision and freewheeling experimentation. Taylor's portraits and allegorical tableaux-pop...
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| Summary: | "Surveying 30 years of Henry Taylor's work in painting, sculpture and installation, this comprehensive monograph celebrates a Los Angeles artist widely appreciated for his unique aesthetic, social vision and freewheeling experimentation. Taylor's portraits and allegorical tableaux-populated by friends, family members, strangers on the street, athletic stars and entertainers-display flashes of familiarity in their seemingly brash compositions, which nonetheless linger in the imagination with uncanny detail. In his paintings on cigarette packs, cereal boxes and other found supports, Taylor brings his primary medium into the realm of common culture. Similarly, the artist's installations often recode the forms and symbolisms of found materials (bleach bottles, push brooms) to play upon art historical tropes and modernism's appropriations of African or African American culture. Taken together, the various strands of Taylor's practice display a deep observation of Black life in America at the turn of the century, while also inviting a humanist fellowship that pushes outward from the particular"-- |
| Item Description: | Published in conjunction with an exhibition held at The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, November 6, 2022-April 30, 2023; and The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, October 4, 2023-January 28, 2024. |
| Physical Description: | 237 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 29 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| Published: |
Los Angeles : New York :
The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles ; DelMonico Books/D.A.P.,
2022.
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| ISBN: | 9781636810560 163681056X |
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| 100 | 1 | |a Taylor, Henry, |d 1958- |e artist, |e interviewee. | |
| 245 | 1 | 0 | |a Henry Taylor : |b B side / |c edited by Bennett Simpson ; with contributions by Wanda Coleman [and 8 others]. |
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| 264 | 1 | |a Los Angeles : |b The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles ; |a New York : |b DelMonico Books/D.A.P., |c 2022. | |
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| 500 | |a Published in conjunction with an exhibition held at The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, November 6, 2022-April 30, 2023; and The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, October 4, 2023-January 28, 2024. | ||
| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references. | ||
| 505 | 0 | 0 | |t Conversation with Henry Taylor / |r Hamza Walker -- |t Henry Taylor: B side / |r Bennett Simpson -- |t Henry Taylor's radical aesthetics / |r Charles Gaines -- |t Exempt from oblivion / |r Frances Stark -- |t Oh Henry! / |r Karon Davis -- |t She's thinking about romance / |r Harmony Holiday -- |t The ancient rain / |r Bob Kaufman -- |t Yr-neh / |r Walter Price -- |t L.A. love cry / |r Wanda Coleman. |
| 520 | |a "Surveying 30 years of Henry Taylor's work in painting, sculpture and installation, this comprehensive monograph celebrates a Los Angeles artist widely appreciated for his unique aesthetic, social vision and freewheeling experimentation. Taylor's portraits and allegorical tableaux-populated by friends, family members, strangers on the street, athletic stars and entertainers-display flashes of familiarity in their seemingly brash compositions, which nonetheless linger in the imagination with uncanny detail. In his paintings on cigarette packs, cereal boxes and other found supports, Taylor brings his primary medium into the realm of common culture. Similarly, the artist's installations often recode the forms and symbolisms of found materials (bleach bottles, push brooms) to play upon art historical tropes and modernism's appropriations of African or African American culture. Taken together, the various strands of Taylor's practice display a deep observation of Black life in America at the turn of the century, while also inviting a humanist fellowship that pushes outward from the particular"-- |c Provided by publisher. | ||
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| 650 | 0 | |a Painters, Black |y 20th century |y 21st century. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Portrait painting |y 20th century |y 21st century. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Painting, Modern |y 20th century |y 21st century. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Installations (Art) |y 20th century |y 21st century. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a African American artists |y 20th century |y 21st century. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a African Americans in art |y 20th century |y 21st century. | |
| 700 | 1 | |a Simpson, Bennett, |e editor, |e contributor, |e organizer. | |
| 700 | 1 | |a Coleman, Wanda, |e contributor. | |
| 710 | 2 | |a Museum of Contemporary Art (Los Angeles, Calif.), |e organizer, |e host institution. | |
| 710 | 2 | |a Whitney Museum of American Art, |e host institution. | |
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