The British painter Chris Ofili was born in Manchester in 1968 and is one of the most notable painters of his generation. He lives and works in London and Trinidad. Ofili's best-known works are complex and highly decorative canvases, built up from layers of paint combined with other materials including sequins, glitter, map pins and images cut from magazines. Their subject matter often refers to his Nigerian heritage and the wider African American and Afro-Caribbean experience, making reference to sources
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Judith Nesbitt is Chief Curator at Tate Britain Okwui Enwezor was Director of Documenta 11 in Kassel, Germany and is the author of Reading the Contemporary: African Art, from Theory to the Marketplace and Snap Judgements: New Positions in Contemporary African Photography. Ekow Eshun is Director of the I.C.A. in London, a broadcast journalist and author of Black Gold of the Sun: Searching for Home in England and Africa. Attillah Springer is a journalist fo the Trinidad Guardian.
The British painter Chris Ofili was born in Manchester in 1968 and is one of the most notable painters of his generation. He lives and works in London and Trinidad. Ofili's best-known works are complex and highly decorative canvases, built up from layers of paint combined with other materials including sequins, glitter, map pins and images cut from magazines. Their subject matter often refers to his Nigerian heritage and the wider African American and Afro-Caribbean experience, making reference to sources
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Vendeur : Mullen Books, ABAA, Marietta, PA, Etats-Unis
Hardcover. Brown casebound book. There is a dust jacket with the title in brown down a multi-colored spine. Pages: (5), 6-176. Profusely illustrated with color images. "This title illustrates works from Chris Ofili's career. It includes an interview with the artist, giving insight into his inspiration and motivation. It also contains essays by leading critics." Contents are as follows: Beginnings / Judith Nesbitt -- The vexations and pleasures of colour : Chris Ofili's 'Afromuses' and the dialectic of painting / Okwui Enwezor -- Ekow Eshun interviews Chris Ofili / edited by Helen Little -- The healer / Attillah Springer. VG/VG: Exlibrary book. Sticker on dust jacket at the base of the spine. Stamp on front free end page. Due date card on back mylar cover flap and on back dust jacket flap. N° de réf. du vendeur 203170
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Vendeur : Atlantic Bookshop, Brooklyn, NY, Etats-Unis
4to, cloth, dust jacket, 176pp., ills. First edition/printing. VG+/VG+: a very, clean, bright and sound book in a clean, bright and whole jacket. Extra postage may be asked (3). N° de réf. du vendeur ATLCOJNT
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Vendeur : The Topsham Bookshop, EXETER, DEVON, Royaume-Uni
Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good. Dustwrapper clean. Brown binding with gold lettering of title down spine and on front, clean. All pages clean and clear. 271mm x 221mm. N° de réf. du vendeur 003232
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Vendeur : Muswell Hill Books, London, Royaume-Uni
Near Fine book in Near Fine Dust jacket. N° de réf. du vendeur ABE-1765393279458
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Vendeur : Piretti Massimiliano, Bologna, BO, Italie
Rilegato. Etat : nuovo. new. N° de réf. du vendeur 201909TT8811
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Vendeur : Rob Warren Books, Richmond, VA, Etats-Unis
Hardcover. Etat : Fine. Etat de la jaquette : Fine. 1st Edition. Signed and dated by Chris Ofili in 2014. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. Very scarce signed. Signed by Author(s). N° de réf. du vendeur ABE-1696997811923
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