Heartland - Couverture souple

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 093557347X ISBN 13 : 9780935573473

Editeur : University of Chicago,David & Alfred Smart Museum,US, 2009

Synopsis

Throughout the vast interior of the United States, contemporary artists are responding to the world around them and reshaping it in unexpected ways. Published to coincide with an exhibition of the same name that first appeared last year in the Netherlands and will open in fall 2009 at the University of Chicago's Smart Museum of Art, Heartland offers an idiosyncratic look at innovative forms of cultural production taking place across the region.

This engaging book is part critical reader, part catalogue. Contributors--including novelist Dave Eggers, scholar Hasan Kwame Jeffries, and journalist Rebecca Solnit--explore the region through topics ranging from art to music to urban farming to political history. An illustrated section introduces over twenty artists featured in Heartland, including both established figures like Kerry James Marshall and exuberant newcomers like the group Whoop Dee Doo. An appendix surveys the lively state of independent and artist-run cultural initiatives from New Orleans to Detroit.

Produced by the Van Abbemuseum and the Smart Museum of Art, Heartland challenges expectations of place and illuminates a diverse assembly of artists who are redefining the cultural terrain of the American heartland.

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

Charles Esche is the director of the Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven and co-editorial director and co-founder of Afterall.

Charles Esche is director of the Van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven, Netherlands. Kerstin Neimann works as a guest researcher at the Van Abbemuseum. Stephanie Smith is the director of collections and exhibitions and the curator of contemporary art at the Smart Museum of Art at the University of Chicago.

Stephanie Smith is deputy director and chief curator at the Smart Museum of Art, an affiliate faculty member of the Department of Visual Art at the University of Chicago, and a founding member of its Open Practice Committee. She is an editor of Afterall Journal, to which she is also a regular contributor. She is the author of Feast: Radical Hospitality in Contemporary Art and Beyond Green: Toward a Sustainable Art.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Chicago,David & Alfred Smart Museum,US
• Date d'édition: 2009
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 093557347X
• ISBN 13: 9780935573473
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 176
• Éditeur: Esche Charles, Niemann Kerstin, Smith Stephanie
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible