Research Catalog

Title

Cauleen Smith : give it or leave it / editor, Kristi McGuire ; [text by Anthony Elms, Rhea Anastas, Cauleen Smith, Rodney McMillian].

Publication

• Philadelphia, PA : Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, [2019]
• © 2019

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Details

Additional Authors

• Elms, Anthony
• Smith, Cauleen
• Anastas, Rhea
• McMillian, Rodney, 1969-
• McGuire, Kristi
• University of Pennsylvania. Institute of Contemporary Art.

Description

159 pages : color illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

Through films, objects, and installation, Cauleen Smith (born 1967) offers an emotional axis by which to navigate four distinct universes: Alice Coltrane and her Sai Anantam ashram; a 1966 photo shoot by Bill Ray at Simon Rodia's Watts Towers in Los Angeles; Noah Purifoy and his desert assemblages in Joshua Tree; and black spiritualist Rebecca Cox Jackson and her Shaker community in 19th-century Philadelphia. These locations, while not technically utopian societies, embody sites of historical speculation and radical generosity between artist and community. In reimagining a future through this mix, Smith casts a world that is black, feminist, spiritual and unabashedly alive. This volume, wrapped in a frosted and foil-stamped dust jacket, contains full-color photographs of the multi-room installation and provides further insight into Smith's creative process and myriad influences through two interviews and a manifesto written by the artist.

Subjects

• African American women artists
• Race in art > Exhibitions
• Conceptual art > Exhibitions
• Smith, Cauleen
• Motion picture producers and directors > Exhibitions
• Exhibition catalogs
• Blacks > Race identity > Exhibitions
• Art, Modern > 21st century > Exhibitions
• Video art > Exhibitions
• African American women artists > Exhibitions
• Politics in art > Exhibitions
• Mixed media (Art) > 21st century > Exhibitions
• Installations (Art) > Exhibitions
• Blacks in art > Exhibitions

Genre/Form

Exhibition catalogs.

Note

• "This book is published on the occasion of the exhibition Cauleen Smith: Give It or Leave It, curated by Anthony Elms, and organized and presented by the Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, September 14 - December 23, 2018" -- Colophon.
• Includes interviews with Rhea Anastas and Rodney McMillan..

Contents

Rhea Anastas in conversation with Cauleen Smith -- Don't listen to me, I'm supposed to be accompanying you! / Anthony Elms -- Rodney McMillian in conversation with Cauleen Smith -- The Association for the Advancement of Cinematic Creative Maladjustment : a manifesto / Cauleen Smith.

Call Number

Sc E 20-172

ISBN

• 9780884541462
• 0884541460

OCLC

1125003877

Title

Cauleen Smith : give it or leave it / editor, Kristi McGuire ; [text by Anthony Elms, Rhea Anastas, Cauleen Smith, Rodney McMillian].

Publisher

Philadelphia, PA : Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, [2019]

© 2019

Edition

First edition.

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Added Author

Elms, Anthony, curator.

Smith, Cauleen, artist, interviewee.

Anastas, Rhea, interviewer.

McMillian, Rodney, 1969- interviewer.

McGuire, Kristi, editor.

University of Pennsylvania. Institute of Contemporary Art.

Research Call Number

Sc E 20-172