EyeMinded

Jones Kellie Jones, Baraka Imamu Amiri Baraka

Description

A daughter of the poets Hettie Jones and Amiri Baraka, Kellie Jones grew up immersed in a world of artists, musicians, and writers in Manhattan's East Village and absorbed in black nationalist ideas about art, politics, and social justice across the river in Newark. The activist vision of art and culture that she learned in those two communities, and especially from her family, has shaped her life and work as an art critic and curator. Featuring selections of her writings from the past twenty years, EyeMinded reveals Jones's role in bringing attention to the work of African American, African, Latin American, and women artists who have challenged established art practices. Interviews that she conducted with the painter Howardena Pindell, the installation and performance artist David Hammons, and the Cuban sculptor Kcho appear along with pieces on the photographers Dawoud Bey, Lorna Simpson, and Pat Ward Williams; the sculptor Martin Puryear; the assemblage artist Betye Saar; and the painters Jean-Michel Basquiat, Norman Lewis, and Al Loving. Reflecting Jones's curatorial sensibility, this collection is structured as a dialogue between her writings and works by her parents, her sister Lisa Jones, and her husband Guthrie P. Ramsey Jr. EyeMinded offers a glimpse into the family conversation that has shaped and sustained Jones, insight into the development of her critical and curatorial vision, and a survey of some of the most important figures in contemporary art.

Sujets

• USA
• History of art
• États-Unis

Informations

• Publié par: Duke University Press
• Date de parution: 27 mai 2011
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9780822393498
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 2 Mo

Extrait

EyeMinded

EyeMinded

k e l l i e j o n e s

l i v ing a nd wr i t i ng cont e mpor ar y ar t

Wit h C o n t r ibu t io n s by

am ir i b a r a k a ,

he t t i e j o ne s,

l i s a j o n e s, a n d

guthr i e p. r a m sey j r .

Duke University Press Durham and London 2011

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For my parents

Hettie Jones and Amiri Baraka The îrst writers I ever met

CO NTENTS

Acknowledgments ix

Introduction “Art in the Family” 1

PA R T O N E O N D I A S P O R A

1. EyeMinded 37 COMMENTARYBARAK AAMI RI

2. Preface to a Twenty Volume  Suicide Note 41 BARAK AAMI RI

3. A.K.A. Saartjie: The Hottentot  Venus in Context (Some  Recollections and a Dialogue)  1998/2004 43

4. Tracey Rose: Postapartheid  Playground 69

5. (Un)Seen and Overheard:  Pictures by Lorna Simpson 81

6. Life’s Little Necessities:  Installations by Women in  the 1990s 125

7. Interview with Kcho 135

8. The Structure of Myth and the  Potency of Magic 145

PA R T T W O I N V I S I O N I N G

9. Seeing Through 159 COMMENTARYHE T T I E J ONE S

10. In the Eye of the Beholder 163  HE T T I E J ONE S

11. To/From Los Angeles with  Betye Saar 165

12. Crown Jewels 177

13. Dawoud Bey: Portraits in the  Theater of Desire 187

14. Pat Ward Williams: Photography  and Social/Personal History 207

15. Interview with Howardena  Pindell 215

16. Eye-Minded: Martin Puryear 235

17. Large As Life: Contemporary  Photography 241

18. Interview with  David Hammons 247

PA R T T H R E E M A K I N G M U LT I C U LT U R A L I S M

19. Excuse Me While I Kiss the Sky  & Then Fly and Touch Down 263 COMMENTARYJ ONE SLI SA

20. How I Invented  Multiculturalism 273 J ONE SLI SA

21. Lost in Translation: Jean-Michel  in the (Re)Mix 277

22. In the Thick of It: David Hammons  and Hair Culture in the 1970s 297

23. Domestic Prayer 305

24. Critical Curators:  Interview with Kellie Jones 309 POLI E STE R

25. Poets of a New Style of  Speak: Cuban Artists o This  Generation 317

26. In Their Own Image 329

27. Tim Rollins and K.O.S.: What’s  Wrong with This Picture? 341

28. Blues to the Future 343

PA R T F O U R A B S T R A C T T R U T H S

29. Them There Eyes:  On Connections and the Visual 349 COMMENTARYP. RAMSE Y J GUT HRI E R .

30. Free Jazz and the Price of  Black Musical Abstraction 353 P. RAMSE GUT HRI E R .Y J

31. To the Max: Energy and  Experimentation 363

32. It’s Not Enough to Say “Black  is Beautiful”: Abstraction at the  Whitney 1969–1974 397

33. Black West: Thoughts on Art  in Los Angeles 427

34. Brothers and Sisters 459

35. Bill T. Jones 469

36. Abstract Expressionism:  The Missing Link 473

37. Norman Lewis: The Black  Paintings 483

AC KNO WLE D G MENTS

There are twenty-îve years of people and places to thank here. The cultural institutions that have supported my work and employed me over this time: The Studio Museum in Harlem, the Jamaica Arts Center, and the Walker Art Center. In my scholarly life, the gifted faculties and departments o his- tory of art and African American studies, as well as the Griswold Fund at Yale University; the department of art history and archaeology and the Insti- tute for Research in African American Studies at Columbia University. The generous sponsorship of the Alphonse Fletcher Sr. Fellowship at Harvard University; the David C. Driskell Prize in African American Art and Art History, High Museum of Art, Atlanta; and the Peter Norton Family Foun- dation. All are greatly appreciated.  There would be no book without many, many wonderful artists I’ve had a chance to work with over the years whose art you will înd in these pages. I have much gratitude for all the fantastic students who keep ask- ing questions. Many colleagues in the academy, the museum, and other parts of the art world have supported me along the way, including: Rasheed Araeen, David A. Bailey, Emma Bedford, Camille Billops, Rashida Bum- bray, David Cabrera, Luis Camnitzer, Hazel Carby, Lisa Gail Collins, Margo Crawford, Olivier DeBroise, Okwui Enwezor, Tom Finkelpearl, Jean Fisher, Coco Fusco, Paul Gilroy, Thelma Golden, Alexander Gray, Farah Jasmine Griïn, Kathy Halbreich, Deidre Hamlar, Anna Harding, halley k. harris- burg, Salah Hassan, James Hatch, Jurgen Heinriches, Anne Higonnet, Kurt Hollander, Robin D. G. Kelley, Thomas Lawson, Arnold Lehman, Susana