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Kehinde Wiley : a new republic / edited by Eugenie Tsai ; with an essay by Connie H. Choi ; plate commentaries by Lee Ambrozy [and 33 others].

Tsai, Eugenie, (editor.). Choi, Connie H., (writer of added commentary.). Wiley, Kehinde, 1977- Paintings. Selections. (Added Author). Brooklyn Museum, (issuing body,, host institution.).

Summary:

"The works presented in Kehinde Wiley: A New Republic raise questions about race, gender, and the politics of representation by portraying contemporary African American men and women using the conventions of traditional European portraiture. The exhibition includes an overview of the artist's prolific fourteen-year career and features sixty paintings and sculptures. Wiley's signature portraits of everyday men and women riff on specific paintings by Old Masters, replacing the European aristocrats depicted in those paintings with contemporary black subjects, drawing attention to the absence of African Americans from historical and cultural narratives. The subjects in Wiley's paintings often wear sneakers, hoodies, and baseball caps, gear associated with hip-hop culture, and are set against contrasting ornate decorative backgrounds that evoke earlier eras and a range of cultures. Through the process of "street casting," Wiley invites individuals, often strangers he encounters on the street, to sit for portraits. In this collaborative process, the model chooses a reproduction of a painting from a book and reenacts the pose of the painting's figure. By inviting the subjects to select a work of art, Wiley gives them a measure of control over the way they're portrayed."--Brooklyn Museum website.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9783791354309
  • ISBN: 3791354302
  • ISBN: 9780872731769
  • ISBN: 0872731766
  • Physical Description: 192 pages : illustrations ; 32 cm
  • Publisher: Munich ; Brooklyn Museum : 2015.

Content descriptions

General Note:
"Published on the occasion of the exhibition Kehinde Wiley: A New Republic at the Brooklyn Museum, February 20-May 24, 2015."
Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 182-188) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
Foreword / Arnold L. Lehman -- Preface and acknowledgments ; Introduction / Eugenie Tsai -- Kehinde Wiley: the artist and interpretation / Connie H. Choi -- Plates and commentaries / texts by Lee Ambrozy, Elizabeth Armstrong, Richard Aste, Naomi Beckwith, Kirsten Pai Buick, Beth Citron, Sara Cochran, Jeffrey Deitch, Latasha N. Nevada Diggs, Kevin D. Dumouchelle, Quincy Flowers, David J. Getsy, Lewis R. Gordon, Rujeko Hockley, Christine Y. Kim, Venus Lau, Thomas J. Lax, Catharina Manchanda, Kobena Mercer, Valerie J. Mercer, Tumelo Mosaka, Steven Nelson, Molly Nesbit, Tavia Nyong'O, Annie Paul, Megha Ralapati, John B. Ravenal, Joanna Montoya Robotham, Franklin Sirmans, Claire Tancons, Touré, Murtaza Vali, Nicola Vassell, Rebecca Walker, and Deborah Willis.
Subject: Wiley, Kehinde, 1977- > Exhibitions.
Wiley, Kehinde.
Wiley, Kehinde, 1977-
African American painters.
Exhibition catalogs.
African American painters.
Genre: Exhibition catalogs.
Exhibition catalogs.

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Kehinde Wiley : A New Republic
Kehinde Wiley : A New Republic
by Tsai, Eugenie (Editor); Choi, Connie H.; Cho, Insoo (Contribution by); Armstrong, Elizabeth (Contribution by); Aste, Richard (Contribution by)
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Kehinde Wiley : A New Republic


Filled with reproductions of Kehinde Wiley's bold, colorful, and monumental work, this book encompasses the artist's various series of paintings as well as his sculptural work--which boldly explore ideas about race, power, and tradition. Celebrated for his classically styled paintings that depict African American men in heroic poses, Kehinde Wiley is among the expanding ranks of prominent black artists--such as Sanford Biggers, Yinka Shonibare, Mickalene Thomas, and Lynette Yiadom-Boakye--who are reworking art history and questioning its depictions of people of color. Co-published with the Brooklyn Museum of Art for the major touring retrospective, this volume surveys Wiley's career from 2001 to the present. It includes early portraits of the men Wiley observed on Harlem's streets, and which laid the foundation for his acclaimed reworkings of Old Master paintings by Titian, van Dyke, Manet, and others, in which he replaces historical subjects with young African American men in contemporary attire: puffy jackets, sneakers, hoodies, and baseball caps. Also included is a generous selection from Wiley's ongoing World Stage project; several of his enormous Down paintings; striking male portrait busts in bronze; and examples from the artist's new series of stained glass windows. Accompanying the illustrations are essays that introduce readers to the arc of Wiley's career, its critical reception, and ongoing evolution.

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