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The Poetics of Cloth

The Poetics of Cloth

African Textiles/Recent Art

by Lynn Gumpert
Publication Date: 01/08/2009

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Accompanying the Grey Art Gallery's exhibition of the same name, The Poetics of Cloth: African Textiles/Recent Art brings some 60 contemporary paintings, sculptures, videos and photographs by artists living in Africa and abroad into dialogue with a selection of mid-twentieth-century and recent African textiles. Artists include El Anatsui, Samuel Cophie, Viye Diba, Sokari Douglas Camp, Groupe Bogolan Kasobane, Abdoulaye Konate, Rachid Koraichi, Atta Kwami, Grace Ndiritu, Nike Okundaye, Owusu-Ankomah, Yinka Shonibare, Malick Sidibe, Nontsikelelo "Lolo" Veleko, Rikki Wemega-Kwawu and Sue Williamson, while texts are by renowned Africanist scholar John Picton, Ghanaian poet Kofi Anyidoho and the Grey Art Gallery's Lynn Gumpert, among others.
ISBN:
9780615220833
9780615220833
Category:
Textile artworks
Publication Date:
01-08-2009
Language:
English
Publisher:
Grey Art Gallery, New York University
Country of origin:
United States
Pages:
112
Dimensions (mm):
240x170x10mm
Weight:
0.36kg

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