Yinka Shonibare, MBE.

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Shonibare, Yinka, 1962-

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Publication details: Munich ; New York : Prestel, 2008.Description: 224 pages : color illustrations ; 30 cmISBN:

9783791341231
3791341235
9781921034299
1921034297
9781921034251
1921034254
9783791361987
3791361988
9783791341675
3791341677

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Genre/Form:

Exhibition catalogues.

Contents:

Forewords / Elizabeth Ann Macgregor, Arnold L. Lehman, Sharon F. Patton -- Time and transformation in the art of Yinka Shonibare MBE / Rachel Kent -- Yinka Shonibare MBE : The politics of representation / Robert Hobbs -- Setting the stage : Yinka Shonibare MBE in conversation with Anthony Downey -- Plates: Sculpture ; Painting ; Photography ; Film.

Review: "Shonibare employs a wide range of media - sculpture, painting, photography, video, and installation pieces - to explore matters of race, class, cultural identity, and history. The artist is best-known for his use of a Dutch-wax fabric, which, though labeled as "African," actually originated in Dutch Indonesia and was introduced to Africa by British manufacturers via Dutch colonizers in the nineteenth century. Incorporating the fabric into Victorian dresses, covering sculptures of alien figures with it or stretching it onto canvases, Shonibare uses the fabric as a metaphor to address issues of origin and authenticity. Published as a companion to Shonibare's first retrospective at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia, and the Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York, this survey explores all aspects of Shonibare's work, offering a fully comprehensive portrait of his projects. Whether he is lampooning Victorian propriety or commenting on the latent ambiguities of the term "alien," Shonibare makes art."--Jacket.

Holdings ( 2 )
Title notes ( 5 )

Holdings
Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Copy number	Status	Notes	Date due	Barcode
Book	Whitecliffe Library General Shelves	General	N 6797 SHO (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	Available			0007751
Book	Whitecliffe Library General Shelves	General	N 6797 SHO (Browse shelf(Opens below))	2	Available	Donated by Henry Symonds, 2019.		0013213

"First published on the occasion of the exhibition Yinka Shonibare, MBE. The exhibition is organised and toured by the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia."

"Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, 24 September 2008 - 1 February 2009 ; Brooklyn Museum, New York, 26 June - 20 September 2009 ; National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, 11 November 2009 - 7 March 2010 ; Curator, Rachel Kent."

Includes bibliographical references (pages 220-222).

"Shonibare employs a wide range of media - sculpture, painting, photography, video, and installation pieces - to explore matters of race, class, cultural identity, and history. The artist is best-known for his use of a Dutch-wax fabric, which, though labeled as "African," actually originated in Dutch Indonesia and was introduced to Africa by British manufacturers via Dutch colonizers in the nineteenth century. Incorporating the fabric into Victorian dresses, covering sculptures of alien figures with it or stretching it onto canvases, Shonibare uses the fabric as a metaphor to address issues of origin and authenticity. Published as a companion to Shonibare's first retrospective at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia, and the Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York, this survey explores all aspects of Shonibare's work, offering a fully comprehensive portrait of his projects. Whether he is lampooning Victorian propriety or commenting on the latent ambiguities of the term "alien," Shonibare makes art."--Jacket.