Research Catalog

Title

Wangechi Mutu : du 2 Février au 22 Avril 2012 / Josée Bélisle.

Author

Wangechi Mutu.

Publication

Montréal : Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal, 2012.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Bélisle, Josée.
• Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal.

Description

68 pages : color illustrations; 23 cm

Summary

Since her appearance in the late 1990s, Wangechi Mutu's collage-drawings depicting black women, tampered with and prey to strange bodily mutations, have generated much debate and interest on the international art scene. The broad range of raw materials she uses - magazines on fashion and current events, geography and ethnography, motorcycles and pornography - allows her to tackle the stereotypes of media representation, particularly of women, head on. While presenting an overview of new and recent work, this publication is centered on the installation Moth Girls, 2010, recently acquired by the Musée. In the recurrence of a half-human, half-animal, female figure, the product of an extreme hybridization, the work reintroduces the notion of taxonomy, along with the volatile notion of classification and hierarchization of species and, by extension, peoples and races.

Subject

• Wangechi Mutu > Exhibitions

Genre/Form

• exhibition catalogs.
• Exhibition catalogs
• Exhibition catalogs.
• Catalogues d'exposition.

Note

• Catalogue of an exhibition held at the Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal, Feb. 2-Apr. 22, 2012.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Language (note)

• Text in French and English.

Contents

Anatomie d'une horreur exquise: une introduction a l'art complexe, éblouissant, monstrueux et-- émouvant de Wangechi Mutu / Josée Bélisle = The anatomy of an exquistite horror: an introduction to the complex, dazzling, monstrous, and moving, art of Wangchi Mutu / Josée Bélisle.

ISBN

• 9782551251438
• 2551251435

OCLC

• ocn761459590
• 761459590
• SCSB-1635809

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library