Research Catalog

Title

Claudette Johnson : presence / edited by Dorothy Price, Barnaby Wright ; with additional research by Chloe Nahum.

Publication

• London : The Courtauld in association with Paul Holberton Publishing, [2023]
• ©2023

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Additional Authors

• Johnson, Claudette, 1959-
• Nahum, Chloe
• Price, Dorothy C. (Dorothy Cilla), 1969-
• Wright, Barnaby
• Courtauld Institute Galleries, host institution.

Description

120 pages : illustrations (some color); 26 cm

Summary

A founding member of the Black British Arts Movement, Claudette Johnson is considered one of the most significant figurative artists of her generation. For over 30 years she has created large-scale drawings of Black women and men that are at once intimate and powerful. Presenting a carefully selected group of major works from across her career, from key early drawings such as the arresting I Came to Dance, 1982, and And I Have My Own Business in This Skin, 1982, alongside recent and new works, this exhibition will offer a compelling overview of Johnson's pioneering career and artistic development. It will consider how Johnson has directed her approach to representing her subjects over three decades, and how her practice is rooted in the art of the past with The Courtauld's collection providing a rich context in which to see her work. Working in a variety of media, ranging from monochrome works in dark pastel to vast sheets brightly coloured in vibrant gouache and watercolour, combined with dramatic use of pose, gaze, and scale, Johnson's distinctive drawings of friends, relatives, and often herself seek, as the artist puts it, "to tell a different story about our presence in this country". This exhibition is the first monographic show of Claudette Johnson's work at a major public gallery in London and is rooted in the ongoing research, teaching and activities in the field of Black and Diasporic British Art by Dorothy Price, Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art and Critical Race Art History at The Courtauld. -- Courtauld website.

Alternative Title

Presence

Subject

• Johnson, Claudette, 1959- > Exhibitions
• Johnson, Claudette, 1959-
• Women artists, Black > England > Exhibitions
• Black people in art > Exhibitions
• Portrait painting > Exhibitions
• Figurative art > England > 20th century
• Figurative art > England > 21st century
• Black people in art

Genre/Form

• Exhibition catalogs
• Exhibition catalogs.

Note

• Catalog of an exhibition held at Denise Coates Exhibition Galleries, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 29 September 2023 - 14 January 2024.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

Claudette Johnson : presence / Dorothy Price -- The body as home / Dorothy Price -- A selection of writing by Claudette Johnson.

Call Number

Sc+ F 23-578

ISBN

• 9781913645540
• 1913645541

OCLC

1400106396

Title

Claudette Johnson : presence / edited by Dorothy Price, Barnaby Wright ; with additional research by Chloe Nahum.

Publisher

London : The Courtauld in association with Paul Holberton Publishing, [2023]

Copyright Date

©2023

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references.

Local Subject

Black author.

Added Author

Johnson, Claudette, 1959- artist.

Nahum, Chloe, contributor.

Price, Dorothy C. (Dorothy Cilla), 1969- author, editor.

Wright, Barnaby, editor.

Courtauld Institute Galleries, host institution.

Research Call Number

Sc+ F 23-578