Howardena Pindell
by Prestel
This retrospective volume celebrates five decades of Howardena Pindell's art, including works on paper, collage, photography, film, and video.
Born in middle-class Philadelphia in the 1940s, Howardena Pindell came of age during the Civil Rights movement. As an African-American woman artist, making her way in the world provided Pindell with source material to inspire her work. This book examines every facet of Pindell's impressive career to date. Since the 1960s, she has used materials such as glitter, talcum powder, and perfume to stretch the boundaries of traditional canvas painting. She has also infused her work with traces of her labor, such as obsessively affixing dots of pigment and circles made with an ordinary hole punch tool. After a car crash in 1979 left her with short-term amnesia, Pindell's work looked beyond the painting studio to explore a wide range of subjects, including the personal and diaristic as well as the social and political. This monograph also highlights Pindell's work with photography, film, and performance. Excerpts from the artist's writing, in particular her critique of the art world and her responses to feminism and racial politics, provide prescient commentary in light of conversations around equality and inclusion today.
Published in association with the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago"Exceptionally well written, organized and presented, Howardena Pindell: What Remains To Be Seen is an extraordinary and unreservedly recommended." -Midwest Book Review
"This stunning catalog is a beautiful object in its own right and does a remarkable job of conveying the visual impact of Pindell’s work, which has been exhibited since the early 1970s." -ArtblogNAOMI BECKWITH is Marilyn and Larry Fields Curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago.
VALERIE CASSEL OLIVER is Sydney and Frances Lewis Family Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts.
Born in middle-class Philadelphia in the 1940s, Howardena Pindell came of age during the Civil Rights movement. As an African-American woman artist, making her way in the world provided Pindell with source material to inspire her work. This book examines every facet of Pindell's impressive career to date. Since the 1960s, she has used materials such as glitter, talcum powder, and perfume to stretch the boundaries of traditional canvas painting. She has also infused her work with traces of her labor, such as obsessively affixing dots of pigment and circles made with an ordinary hole punch tool. After a car crash in 1979 left her with short-term amnesia, Pindell's work looked beyond the painting studio to explore a wide range of subjects, including the personal and diaristic as well as the social and political. This monograph also highlights Pindell's work with photography, film, and performance. Excerpts from the artist's writing, in particular her critique of the art world and her responses to feminism and racial politics, provide prescient commentary in light of conversations around equality and inclusion today.
Published in association with the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago"Exceptionally well written, organized and presented, Howardena Pindell: What Remains To Be Seen is an extraordinary and unreservedly recommended." -Midwest Book Review
"This stunning catalog is a beautiful object in its own right and does a remarkable job of conveying the visual impact of Pindell’s work, which has been exhibited since the early 1970s." -ArtblogNAOMI BECKWITH is Marilyn and Larry Fields Curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago.
VALERIE CASSEL OLIVER is Sydney and Frances Lewis Family Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts.
PUBLISHER:
Prestel Publishing
ISBN-10:
3791357379
ISBN-13:
9783791357380
BINDING:
Hardback
BOOK DIMENSIONS:
Dimensions: 9.3800(W) x Dimensions: 12.2500(H) x Dimensions: 1.1600(D)