Yinka Shonibare, MBE.
Publication details: Munich ; New York : Prestel, 2008.Description: 224 pages : color illustrations ; 30 cmISBN:- 9783791341231
- 3791341235
- 9781921034299
- 1921034297
- 9781921034251
- 1921034254
- 9783791361987
- 3791361988
- 9783791341675
- 3791341677
- Shonibare, Yinka, 1962- -- Exhibitions
- Museum of Contemporary Art (Sydney, N.S.W.) -- Exhibitions
- Brooklyn Museum -- Exhibitions
- National Museum of African Art (U.S.) -- Exhibitions
- Museum of Contemporary Art (Sydney, N.S.W.)
- Smithsonian Institution
- Textile fabrics in art -- Exhibitions
- Photography, Artistic -- Exhibitions
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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).
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.
"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.