The first anthology of texts on the luminary contemporary artist David Hammons.
The first anthology of texts on the luminary contemporary artist David Hammons.
David Hammons is a collection of essays on the one of the most important living Black artists of our time, David Hammons (b. 1943). Documenting five decades of visual practice from 1982 to the present, the book features contributions from scholars, artists, and cultural workers, and includes numerous images of the artist and his work that are not widely available. Contributions include essays from cultural critics including Guy Trebay and Greg Tate; artists Coco Fusco and Glenn Ligon; and scholars such as Robert Farris Thompson, Alex Alberro, and Manthia Diawara.
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.""
By:
Kellie Jones
Imprint: MIT Press
Country of Publication: United States
Volume: 29
Dimensions:
Height: 229mm,
Width: 152mm,
Weight: 369g
ISBN: 9780262549363
ISBN 10: 0262549360
Pages: 264
Publication Date: 04 March 2025
Audience:
General/trade
,
ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Series Preface Acknowledgements Ben Okri, A History of New Forms (2016) Gylbert Coker, Human Pegs, Pole Dreams, (1982) Guy Trebay, Pole Vault (1986) Kellie Jones, Interview with David Hammons (1986) Steve Cannon, et al, David Hammons Interview (Fall 1991) Robert Farris Thompson, David Hammons: Knowing Their Past (1992) Coco Fusco, Wreaking Havoc on the Signified (1995) Kellie Jones, In the Thick of It: David Hammons and Hair Culture in the 1970s (1998) Glenn Ligon, BLACK LIGHT: DAVID HAMMONS AND THE POETICS OF EMPTINESS (2004) Claire Tancons, An Elective Affinity: David Hammons’s Hidden from View and Made in the People’s Republic of Harlem (2005) Manthia Diawara, David Hammons's Sheep Raffle at Dak’Art 2004, Reading Black Art through Léopold Sédar Senghor's Négritude (2008) Alexander Alberro, The Joke of Painting: On David Hammons at L&M Arts, New York (2011) Greg Tate, Dark Angels of Dust: David Hammons and the Art of Streetwise Transcendentalism (2011) Tobias Wofford, Can You Dig It?: Signifying Race in David Hammons’ Spade Series (2011) Kellie Jones, Good Mirrors Ain’t Cheap (2016) Abbe Schriber, ‘Those Who Know Don’t Tell’: David Hammons c. 1981 (2019) Sampada Aranke, How to See Like Hammons (2021) In Conversation, Linda Goode Bryant and Senga Nengudi (2021)
Kellie Jones is Hans Hofmann Professor of Modern Art in the Departments of Art History & Archaeology and African American & African Diaspora Studies at Columbia University. A member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (Boston) and the American Philosophical Society (Philadelphia), she was named a MacArthur Foundation Fellow in 2016.
