David Hammons

The first anthology of texts on the luminary contemporary artist David Hammons. A star of the West Coast Black Arts Movement in the 1960s and the winner of a Prix de Rome prize as well as a MacArthur Fellowship, David Hammons rose to fame in Los Angeles with his body prints, in which he used his entire body as a printing plate. His later work engaged with materials that he found in urban environments--from greasy brown paper bags, discarded hair from barber shops, and empty bottles of cheap wine--which he turned into things of wonder while also commenting on a country’s neglect of its citizens. In this volume, a new generation of scholars, Tobias Wofford, Abbe Schriber, and Sampada Aranke, broaden the theoretical mapping of Hammons’s career and its impact, challenging viewers to imagine, in the words of Aranke, “how to see like Hammons.”

Product details

• Authors: Kellie Jones, Jones Kellie
• Publisher: The MIT Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 28.01.2025
• EAN: 9780262549363
• ISBN: 978-0-262-54936-3
• No. of pages: 254
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 230 mm x 15 mm
• Series: October Files
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art; The arts: general issues, ART / Individual Artists / General, ART / History / Contemporary (1945-), History of Art, ART / American / African American & Black