Research Catalog

Title

Blues for smoke / organized by Bennett Simpon.

Publication

• Los Angeles : Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles ; Munich ; London ; New York : DelMonico Books/Prestel, 2012.
• ©2012

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Holdings

Details

Additional Authors

• Simpson, Bennett
• Museum of Contemporary Art (Los Angeles, Calif.), host institution. http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/his

Description

222 pages : illustrations; 28 cm

Summary

"Covering nearly half a century and including the works of some 50 artists in a wide variety of media, this book looks beyond ideas of musical category to identify the blues as a visual and cultural idiom that has informed multiple generations of artists--from Romare Bearden and William Eggleston to David Hammons and David Simon, creator of the television series The Wire. Generously illustrated with paintings, drawings, photographs, sculpture, installation, and video stills, and containing a wide range of critical writing, poetry, and fiction, the catalog explores topics central to the blues--from articulations of daily life, modes of abstraction and repetition, and self-performance to ecstatic and cathartic expression and metaphors of memory and the archive. Both scholarly and unique, this reimagining of all things "blues" will draw audiences from across cultural and racial boundaries as it celebrates a uniquely American idiom that has made its mark on nearly every contemporary artistic medium"--

Subject

• Arts, Modern > 20th century > Exhibitions
• Arts, Modern > 21st century > Exhibitions
• Blues (Music) in art > Exhibitions
• ART / Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions / General
• ART / History / Contemporary (1945-)

Note

• This publication accompanies the exhibition "Blues for Smoke," organized by Bennett Simpson and presented at The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, October 20, 2012-January 7, 2013.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

Jaki Byard : Blues for smoke / Fred Moten -- This air / Bennett Simpson -- The wire and the blues / Glenn Ligon -- The timeless blues / George E. Lewis -- Muse & drudge / Harryette Mullen -- My blues love affair / Wanda Coleman -- Five lines four spaces / Jack Whitten -- There : a feeling / Gregg Bordowitz -- From a broken bottle traces of perfume still emanate, volume five / Nathaniel Mackey.

ISBN

• 9783791352534 (hardback)
• 3791352539 (hardback)

LCCN

2012025362

OCLC

• ocn798061724
• 798061724
• SCSB-5663890

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries