Research Catalog

Title

Howardena Pindell : what remains to be seen / edited by Naomi Beckwith and Valerie Cassel Oliver.

Publication

• Chicago, IL : Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago ; Munich ; New York, NY : DelMonico Books/Prestel, 2018.
• ©2018

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Details

Additional Authors

• Beckwith, Naomi
• Cassel Oliver, Valerie
• Museum of Contemporary Art (Chicago, Ill.), organizer, host institution.

Description

270 pages : illustrations (chiefly color); 32 cm

Summary

• "An exploration of the life and work of the African American female artist, Howardena Pindell"--Provided by publisher.
• "This retrospective volume celebrates five decades of Howardena Pindell's art, including works on paper, collage, photography, film, and video. Born in middle-class Philadelphia in the 1940s, Howardena Pindell came of age during the Civil Rights movement. As an African-American woman artist, making her way in the world provided Pindell with source material to inspire her work. This book examines every facet of Pindell's impressive career to date. Since the 1960s, she has used materials such as glitter, talcum powder, and perfume to stretch the boundaries of traditional canvas painting. She has also infused her work with traces of her labor, such as obsessively affixing dots of pigment and circles made with an ordinary hole punch tool. After a car crash in 1979 left her with short-term amnesia, Pindell's work looked beyond the painting studio to explore a wide range of subjects, including the personal and diaristic as well as the social and political. This monograph also highlights Pindell's work with photography, film, and performance. Excerpts from the artist's writing, in particular her critique of the art world and her responses to feminism and racial politics, provide prescient commentary in light of conversations around equality and inclusion today"--Publisher's website.

Alternative Title

What remains to be seen

Subjects

• Pindell, Howardena, 1943-
• Pindell, Howardena, 1943- > Exhibitions
• Pindell, Howardena, 1943- > Criticism and interpretation
• African American women artists > Exhibitions
• Exhibition catalogs
• Collage
• African American painting > Exhibitions
• Art and society

Genre/Form

Exhibition catalogs.

Note

• Published on the occasion of the exhibition Howardena Pindell: What Remains to be Seen, organized by Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, February 24-May 20, 2018.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 238-242) and index.

Contents

Director's foreword / Madeleine Grynsztejn -- Acknowledgments / Naomi Beckwith, Valerie Cassel Oliver -- Opening thoughts / Naomi Beckwith, Valerie Cassel Oliver -- Clearly seen : a chronology / Sarah Cowan -- Synthesis and integration in the work of Howardena Pindell, 1972-1992 : a (re)consideration / Lowery Stokes Sims -- Body optics, or Howardena Pindell's ways of seeing / Naomi Beckwith -- The tao of abstraction : Pindell's meditations on drawing / Valerie Cassel Oliver -- Howardena Pindell : negotiating abstraction / Charles Gaines -- Interrupting the broadcast : Howardena Pindell's video drawings / Grace Deveney -- Coming to Voice : Howardena Pindell's free, white and 21 / Brian Wallis -- Roundtable discussion on the work of Howardena Pindell / Naomi Beckwith, Valerie Cassel Oliver, Marilyn Minter, Lorna Simpson, Molly Zuckerman-Hartung -- The Howardena Pindell Papers : Kellie Jones : Howardena Pindell interview ; On making a video ; Artist's statement ; On planning an exhibition ; Review of an exhibition ; Who do you think you are? One of us? / Howardena Pindell -- Biography -- Exhibition checklist -- Exhibition lenders and sponsors -- Catalogue contributors.

Call Number

Sc+ G 19-40

ISBN

• 9783791357379
• 3791357379

LCCN

2017045144

OCLC

1004512111

Title

Howardena Pindell : what remains to be seen / edited by Naomi Beckwith and Valerie Cassel Oliver.

Publisher

Chicago, IL : Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago ; Munich ; New York, NY : DelMonico Books/Prestel, 2018.

Copyright Date

©2018

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 238-242) and index.

Added Author

Beckwith, Naomi, editor.

Cassel Oliver, Valerie, editor.

Museum of Contemporary Art (Chicago, Ill.), organizer, host institution.

Research Call Number

Sc+ G 19-40

JQG 18-515