Research Catalog

Title

Wangechi Mutu : this you call civilization? / edited by David Moos.

Author

Wangechi Mutu

Publication

Toronto : Art Gallery of Ontario, c2010.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Moos, David
• Art Gallery of Ontario

Description

125 p. : ill. (chiefly col.); 24 cm.

Summary

"Born in Nairobi, living in New York, Wangechi Mutu is known for her painting, sculpture, film, and performance work in which she does anything but shy away from critiquing the modern gaze. Rather, she focuses squarely on calling a spade a spade: the Orientalist way the West looks at the African-American woman, the exaltation of consumerism, and the role of technology (and its intersection with humanity) in the modern age. Mutu is neither neutral nor exploratory; at times, she offers the visual equivalent of an indictment. Mutu's protagonists, tribal and technological, wonderfully proud yet ceaselessly oppressed, both blossom and collapse. Driven by contradiction, they draw us in. Published in 2010 to accompany Mutu's first major exhibition in North America, This You Call Civilization? features reproductions of her major works on paper, large-scale installations, and stills from videos as well as essays by David Moos, Jennifer Gonzales, Michelle Jacques, Odili Donald Odita, Raphael Rubinstein, Carol Thompson, and Rinaldo Walcott. Interleaved between the essays are excerpts from books, selected by Mutu, about brutal colonial repression, the Harlem Renaissance, and the Rwandan genocide." -- Amazon.com.

Alternative Title

This you call civilization?

Subject

• Wangechi Mutu > Exhibitions
• Art Gallery of Ontario > 21st century > Exhibitions
• Art, Modern > 21st century > Exhibitions
• Women artists > Kenya > 21st century > Exhibitions
• Social problems in art > 21st century > Exhibitions
• Black people in art > 21st century > Exhibitions

Genre/Form

• Exhibition catalogs
• Exhibition catalogs.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Exhibitions (note)

• Catalogue of an exhibition held at the Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Ont. from Feb. 24 - May 23, 2010.

Contents

The ark collection : disjunctive continuity / David Moos -- Savage beauty : the work of Wangechi Mutu / Odili Donald Odita -- Repeating histories, black bodies and forensic forms / Rinaldo Walcott -- Sticks and stones will break your bones, but words can also hurt you : don't let sleeping heads lie / Carol Thompson -- The wound and the rock : thoughts on Royal blue arachnid curse / Raphael Rubinstein -- Flesh in the machine : she's Egungun again / Jennifer González -- Another world : material and metaphor in the video work of Wangechi Mutu / Michelle Jacques -- Rich Blint interviews Wangechi Mutu.

ISBN

• 9781894243643
• 1894243641

OCLC

• 507357742
• SCSB-10133255

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library