Jimmie Durham, Europe, and the Art of Relations

This book investigates Jimmie Durham's community-building process of making and display in four of his projects in Europe: Something ... Perhaps a Fugue, or an Elegy (2005); two Neapolitan nativities (2016 and ongoing); The Middle Earth (with Maria Thereza Alves, 2018); and God's Poems, God's Children (2017).

List of contents

Introduction. Art Exists for Us Socially
1. Art Matters: Something … Perhaps a Fugue, or an Elegy, 2005
2. Neighbors and Faith in Community: Durham’s Neapolitan Presepi, 2016 and Ongoing
3. Civilization and its Dis(Contents): Maria Thereza Alves and Jimmie Durham’s The Middle Earth, 2018
4. Animals are Our Brethren: God’s Children, God’s Poems, 2017
Conclusion. Humanity Is Not a Completed Project

About the author

Andrea Feeser is Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art History, Theory, and Criticism at Clemson University.

Summary

This book investigates Jimmie Durham’s community-building process of making and display in four of his projects in Europe: Something … Perhaps a Fugue, or an Elegy (2005); two Neapolitan nativities (2016 and ongoing); The Middle Earth (with Maria Thereza Alves, 2018); and God’s Poems, God’s Children (2017).

Product details

• Authors: Andrea Feeser
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 09.10.2024
• EAN: 9780367548810
• ISBN: 978-0-367-54881-0
• No. of pages: 124
• Series: Routledge Focus on Art History and Visual Studies
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > General, dictionaries; ART / History / General, ART / Criticism & Theory, ART / Sculpture & Installation, ART / History / Contemporary (1945-), History of Art, Art & design styles: from c 1960, Individual artists, art monographs