Yinka Shonibare, MBE
Published as a companion to Shonibare's first retrospective at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia, and the Brooklyn Museum, New York, Yinka Shonibare, MBE is a lavishly illustrated catalogue published by Prestel, including essays by Rachel Kent, Senior Curator of the Museum of Contemporary Art in Sydney, who organized the exhibition, and by Robert Hobbs, Rhoda Thalheimer Endowed Chair in Art History at Virginia Commonwealth University. The monograph also includes an in-depth interview with the artist conducted by Anthony Downey, Ph.D., Programme Director of the M. A. in Contemporary Art at Sotheby's Institute in London.
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.
YINKA SHONIBARE, MBE
Prestel Publishing, 2008
Language: English
224 pages
160 color illustrations
15 b/w illustrations
Hardcover
size: 290mm x 245mm.
ISBN 978-3-7913-4123-1
PRICE $60.00
Published as a companion to Shonibare's first retrospective at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia, and the Brooklyn Museum, New York, Yinka Shonibare, MBE is a lavishly illustrated catalogue published by Prestel, including essays by Rachel Kent, Senior Curator of the Museum of Contemporary Art in Sydney, who organized the exhibition, and by Robert Hobbs, Rhoda Thalheimer Endowed Chair in Art History at Virginia Commonwealth University. The monograph also includes an in-depth interview with the artist conducted by Anthony Downey, Ph.D., Programme Director of the M. A. in Contemporary Art at Sotheby's Institute in London.
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.
YINKA SHONIBARE, MBE
Prestel Publishing, 2008
Language: English
224 pages
160 color illustrations
15 b/w illustrations
Hardcover
size: 290mm x 245mm.
ISBN 978-3-7913-4123-1
PRICE $60.00
