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Henry Taylor : B side

Title
Henry Taylor : B side / edited by Bennett Simpson ; with contributions by Wanda Coleman, Karon Davis, Charles Gaines, Harmony Holiday, Bob Kaufman, Walter Price, Bennett Simpson, and Frances Stark, and a conversation between Henry Taylor and Hamza Walker.
Publication
Los Angeles : The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles ; New York : DelMonico Books, [2022]

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Additional Authors
  • Simpson, Bennett
  • Coleman, Wanda.
  • Davis, Karon, 1977-
  • Gaines, Charles, 1944-
  • Holiday, Harmony, 1982-
  • Kaufman, Bob.
  • Price, Walter, 1989-
  • Stark, Frances, 1967-
  • Walker, Hamza
  • Taylor, Henry, 1958-
  • Museum of Contemporary Art (Los Angeles, Calif.), organizer, host institution.
  • Whitney Museum of American Art, host institution.
Description
237 pages : illustrations (chiefly color); 29 cm
Summary
"Surveying 30 years of Henry Taylor's work in painting, sculpture and installation, this comprehensive monograph celebrates a Los Angeles artist widely appreciated for his unique aesthetic, social vision and freewheeling experimentation. Taylor's portraits and allegorical tableaux-populated by friends, family members, strangers on the street, athletic stars and entertainers-display flashes of familiarity in their seemingly brash compositions, which nonetheless linger in the imagination with uncanny detail. In his paintings on cigarette packs, cereal boxes and other found supports, Taylor brings his primary medium into the realm of common culture. Similarly, the artist's installations often recode the forms and symbolisms of found materials (bleach bottles, push brooms) to play upon art historical tropes and modernism's appropriations of African or African American culture. Taken together, the various strands of Taylor's practice display a deep observation of Black life in America at the turn of the century, while also inviting a humanist fellowship that pushes outward from the particular"--
Subject
  • Taylor, Henry, 1958- > Exhibitions
  • 1900-1999
  • Artists, Black > 21st century > Exhibitions
  • Painters, Black > 21st century > Exhibitions
  • Portrait painting > 21st century > Exhibitions
  • Painting, Modern > 21st century > Exhibitions
  • Installations (Art) > 21st century > Exhibitions
  • African American artists > 21st century > Exhibitions
  • African Americans in art > 21st century > Exhibitions
  • African American artists
  • African Americans in art
  • Artists, Black
  • Installations (Art)
  • Painters, Black
  • Painting, Modern
  • Portrait painting
Genre/Form
Exhibition catalogs.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
Contents
Conversation with Henry Taylor / Hamza Walker -- Henry Taylor: B Side / Bennett Simpson -- Henry Taylor's Radical Aesthetics / Charles Gaines -- Exempt from Oblivion / Frances Stark -- Oh Henry! / Karon Davis -- She's Thinking about Romance / Harmony Holiday -- The Ancient Rain / Bob Kaufman -- Yr-neh / Walter Price -- L.A. Love Cry / Wanda Coleman.
Call Number
N6537.T394
ISBN
  • 9781636810560
  • 163681056X
LCCN
2022023610
OCLC
  • 1334947400
  • on1334947400
  • SCSB-14410354
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries