Art Metropole

#03832

Double Consciousness : Black Conceptual Art Since 1970

Editor

Valerie Cassel Oliver

Date

2005

Publisher

Contemporary Arts Museum (Houston)

Format

Artists' Books

Details

Paperback

Size

23 × 27 cm

Length

111 

It also focuses on the evolution of conceptual art in subsequent decades as a tool to deconstruct existing precepts regarding gender and race, and as a strategy in presenting ideas regarding the complexities of contemporary society and how artists skillfully negotiate these complexities as it relates to themselves and the community at large. The exhibition’s concept is an aesthetic contribution to the rethinking of DuBois’s “double conciousness” theory that asserts that African-Americans are no longer relegated to looking at themselves through the eyes of others, but rather through their own gaze. The catalogue features a chronology of significant events that have helped shape the language and ideas of artists over the last century as well as an anthology by a few artists in the exhibition?Adrian Piper, Charles Gaines, Arthur Jafa, Howardena Pindell, to name a few. Participating artists include Terry Adkins, Edgar Arceneaux, Sanford Biggers, Ellen Gallagher, Jennie C. Jones, Senga Nengudi, Maren Hassinger, Gary Simmons, Nari Ward, and others.Includes works by Charles Gaines, David Hammons, Lyle Ashton Harris, Senga Nengudi, Adrian Piper, Fred Wilson, Lorna Simpson and Ellen Gallagher among others.