Research Catalog

Title

Howardena Pindell : a new language / edited by Fiona Bradley.

Author

Pindell, Howardena, 1943-

Publication

• Edinburgh : Fruitmarket ; Cambridge : Kettle's Yard, [2021]
• London : Distributed by Art Data
• ©2021

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Additional Authors

• Bradley, Fiona
• Lovatt, Anna
• Tobin, Amy, 1989-
• Wilford, Adeze
• Fruitmarket Gallery, organizer, host institution.
• Kettle's Yard Gallery, organizer, host institution.
• Spike Island (Firm), organizer, host institution.

Description

141 pages : illustrations (chiefly color); 25 x 28 cm

Summary

"Artist, activist, writer, and teacher Howardena Pindell has been a force in contemporary art since the late 1960s. This book is a celebration and critical examination of her painting and writing and marks her first solo exhibition in the UK. It takes its title--and its cue--from her: 'I am an artist. I am not part of a so-called "minority", "new" or "emerging" or "a new audience". These are all terms used to demean, limit, and make people of color appear to be powerless. We must evolve a new language which empowers us and does not cause us to participate in our own disenfranchisement.' With illustrations of a selection of paintings from the 1970s to now; new writing from Anna Lovatt of the Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Amy Tobin of the University of Cambridge, and Adeze Wilford from The Shed in New York; and a selection of Pindell's own writing, this book presents Pindell's inspiring and unflinchingly active imagination, and explores her articulation of a 'new language' as exemplary in articulating empowerment"--

Subject

• Pindell, Howardena, 1943- > Exhibitions
• Pindell, Howardena, 1943- > Criticism and interpretation
• Pindell, Howardena, 1943-
• 1900-1999
• African American women artists > Exhibitions
• Painting, American > 20th century > Exhibitions
• Drawing, American > 20th century > Exhibitions
• African American art > Exhibitions
• African American art
• African American women artists
• Drawing, American
• Painting, American
• Criticism and interpretation
• United States

Genre/Form

• Criticism, interpretation, etc.
• Exhibition catalogs.

Note

• This book published on the occasion of the exhibition "Howardena Pindell: A new language," Fruitmarket, Edinburgh, November 13, 2021-May 2, 2022; Kettle's Yard, Cambridge, July 2, 2022-October 30, 2022; Spike Island, Bristol, February 4, 2023-May 7, 2023.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 128-129).

Contents

On her fingers and toes / Anna Lovatt -- Surface tension / Amy Tobin -- Free, white and 21 / Howardena Pindell -- Facing it : Howardena Pindell and activism that is personal / Adeze Wilford -- Rope/fire/water / Howardena Pindell -- Art world racism / Howardena Pindell.

Call Number

JQE 23-416

ISBN

• 9781908612601
• 1908612606

OCLC

1287084190

Author

Pindell, Howardena, 1943- artist.

Title

Howardena Pindell : a new language / edited by Fiona Bradley.

Publisher

Edinburgh : Fruitmarket ; Cambridge : Kettle's Yard, [2021]

Distributor

London : Distributed by Art Data

Copyright Date

©2021

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 128-129).

Chronological Term

1900-1999

Local Subject

Black author.

Added Author

Bradley, Fiona, editor.

Lovatt, Anna, writer of supplementary textual content.

Tobin, Amy, 1989- writer of supplementary textual content.

Wilford, Adeze, writer of supplementary textual content.

Fruitmarket Gallery, organizer, host institution.

Kettle's Yard Gallery, organizer, host institution.

Spike Island (Firm), organizer, host institution.

Research Call Number

JQE 23-416

Sc+ E 23-994