Carrie Mae Weems :the shape of things
- 作者: Weems, Carrie Mae,
- 其他作者: Eccles, Tom, , Oikonomopoulos, Vassilis, , Obrist, Hans Ulrich, , Luma Arles,
- 出版:
- 稽核項: 223 pages :illustrations (chiefly color) ;25 cm.
- 標題: African American women photographers Exhibitions. , Video art United States -- Exhibitions. , Women photographers United States -- Interviews. , African American women in art Exhibitions. , African Americans in art Exhibitions. , African American women artists , Photography, Artistic , Video art Exhibitions. , Weems, Carrie Mae, 1953- Exhibitions. , Video art , African Americans in art , African American women photographers , Weems, Carrie Mae, , African American women in art , African American women artists Exhibitions. , Women photographers , Photography, Artistic Exhibitions. , Weems, Carrie Mae, 1953- Interviews.
- ISBN: 1735762997 , 9781735762999
- 附註: Published on the occasion of an exhibition of the same name at the Meccanique du Park des Ateliers, Luma Arles, Parc des Ateliers, Arles, May 26-December 30, 2023. Includes bibliographical references.
- 摘要: Carrie Mae Weems has often confronted the uncomfortable truths of racism and race relations over the course of her nearly 40-year career. In The Shape of Things she focuses her unflinching gaze at what she describes as the circuslike quality of contemporary American political life. For this new work, Weems created a seven-part film projected onto a Cyclorama - a panoramic-style cylindrical screen that dates to the 19th century - where she addresses the turmoil of current events in the United States and the 'long march forward.' Drawing on news and TV footage from the civil rights era to today, elements of previous films such as The Madding Crowd (2017) and new film projects that bring us into our tumultuous present, the films in The Shape of Things combine documentary directness with poetic rhythm to create an enveloping experience. The films are narrated by Weems, and the layering of her resonant voice with these images articulates the dangerous mounting resistance to the 'browning of America.' As Weems shows in these powerful works, America is irreversibly changed and changing.
- 系統號: 005335939
- 資料類型: 圖書
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Carrie Mae Weems has often confronted the uncomfortable truths of racism and race relations over the course of her nearly forty-year career. In The Shape of Things, she focuses her unflinching gaze at what she describes as the circuslike quality of contemporary American political life. For this new work, Weems created a seven-part film projected onto a Cyclorama-a panoramic-style cylindrical screen that dates to the 19th century-where she addresses the turmoil of current events in the United States and the "long march forward." Drawing upon news and television footage from the Civil Rights era to the present day, elements of some of her previous films such as The Madding Crowd (2017), in which intellectuals such as James Baldwin discuss contemporary politics, and new film projects that bring us into our tumultuous present, the films in The Shape of Things combine documentary directness with poetic rhythm to create an enveloping experience. The films are narrated by Weems, and the layering of her resonant voice with these densely woven images articulate the dangerous and mounting resistance to the "browning of America." Former President Donald J. Trump is the implicit grand master of the American circus, with its associated tea parties, alt-right parades, and big lie assaults, all working furiously to combat the fundamental shifts in power that loom. But as Weems shows in these powerful works, America is irreversibly changed and changing. It can't and won't go back.
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