Howardena Pindell

Howardena Pindell
Author: Naomi Beckwith
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2018-03-01
Genre: Art
ISBN: 3791357379

This retrospective volume celebrates five decades of Howardena Pindell's art, including works on paper, collage, photography, film, and video. Born in middle-class Philadelphia in the 1940s, Howardena Pindell came of age during the Civil Rights movement. As an African-American woman artist, making her way in the world provided Pindell with source material to inspire her work. This book examines every facet of Pindell's impressive career to date. Since the 1960s, she has used materials such as glitter, talcum powder, and perfume to stretch the boundaries of traditional canvas painting. She has also infused her work with traces of her labor, such as obsessively affixing dots of pigment and circles made with an ordinary hole punch tool. After a car crash in 1979 left her with short-term amnesia, Pindell's work looked beyond the painting studio to explore a wide range of subjects, including the personal and diaristic as well as the social and political. This monograph also highlights Pindell's work with photography, film, and performance. Excerpts from the artist's writing, in particular her critique of the art world and her responses to feminism and racial politics, provide prescient commentary in light of conversations around equality and inclusion today. Published in association with the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago

Howardena Pindell

Howardena Pindell
Author: Sarah Louise Cowan
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 284
Release: 2022-01-01
Genre: Art
ISBN: 0300264291

Exploring the art and life of this important American artist whose work bridged the gaps between abstraction, feminism, and Blackness Howardena Pindell: Reclaiming Abstraction is a fascinating examination of the multifaceted career of artist, activist, curator, and writer Howardena Pindell (b. 1943). It offers a fresh perspective on her abstract practice from the late 1960s through the early 1980s--a period in which debates about Black Power, feminism, and modernist abstraction intersected in uniquely contentious yet generative ways. Sarah Louise Cowan not only asserts Pindell's rightful place within the canon but also recenters dominant historical narratives to reveal the profound and overlooked roles that Black women artists have played in shaping modernist abstraction. Pindell's career acts as a springboard for a broader study of how artists have responded during periods of heightened social activism and used abstraction to convey political urgency. With works that drew on Ghanaian textiles, administrative labor, cosmetics, and postminimalism, Pindell deployed abstraction in deeply personal ways that resonated with collective African diasporic and women's practices. In her groundbreaking analysis, Cowan argues that such work advanced Black feminist modernisms, diverse creative practices that unsettle racist and sexist logics.

Howardena Pindell

Howardena Pindell
Author: Adeze Wilford
Publisher: Walther Konig Verlag
Total Pages: 120
Release: 2021-02-26
Genre:
ISBN: 9783960988953

Adeze Wilford, Alex Poots, Ashley James, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Howardena Pindell

Howardena Pindell

Howardena Pindell
Author: Howardena Pindell
Publisher:
Total Pages: 100
Release: 1992
Genre: African American art
ISBN:

Howardena Pindell

Howardena Pindell
Author: Barry Schwabsky
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2014
Genre: African American art
ISBN: 9780989890243

This publication provides an overview of Howardena Pindell's (born 1943) work from 1974 to 1980, an incredibly innovative period in which she began cutting the canvas in strips and sewing them back together, then building up the surface in elaborate stages. By the late 1970s, sequins, string, hair and even perfume had become a part of her painting.

Embodied Avatars

Embodied Avatars
Author: Uri McMillan
Publisher: NYU Press
Total Pages: 304
Release: 2015-05-15
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1479897760

How black women have personified art,expression,identity, and freedom through performance Winner, 2016 William Sanders Scarborough Prize, presented by the Modern Language Association for an outstanding scholarly study of African American literature or culture Winner, 2016 Barnard Hewitt Award for Outstanding Research in Theatre History, presented by the American Society for Theatre Research Winner, 2016 Errol Hill Award for outstanding scholarship in African American theater, drama, and/or performance studies, presented by the American Society for Theatre Research Tracing a dynamic genealogy of performance from the nineteenth to the twenty-first century, Uri McMillan contends that black women artists practiced a purposeful self- objectification, transforming themselves into art objects. In doing so, these artists raised new ways to ponder the Intersectionsof art, performance, and black female embodiment. McMillan reframes the concept of the avatar in the service of black performance art, describing black women performers’ skillful manipulation of synthetic selves and adroit projection of their performances into other representational mediums. A bold rethinking of performance art, Embodied Avatars analyzes daring performances of alterity staged by “ancient negress” Joice Heth and fugitive slave Ellen Craft, seminal artists Adrian Piper and Howardena Pindell, and contemporary visual and music artists Simone Leigh and Nicki Minaj. Fusing performance studies with literary analysis and visual culture studies, McMillan offers astute readings of performances staged in theatrical and quotidian locales, from freak shows to the streets of 1970s New York; in literary texts, from artists’ writings to slave narratives; and in visual and digital mediums, including engravings, photography, and video art. Throughout, McMillan reveals how these performers manipulated the dimensions of objecthood, black performance art, and avatars in a powerful re-scripting of their bodies while enacting artful forms of social misbehavior. The Critical Lede interview with Uri McMillan

The Geometries of Afro Asia

The Geometries of Afro Asia
Author: Joan Kee
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 316
Release: 2023-04-18
Genre: Art
ISBN: 0520392450

"How do we embark on a history of art that proceeds from the assumption of a global majority? Taking as a rhetorical departure the construct of Afro Asia which doubles as both an ontological reference and an epistemological intervention, this book centers the worlds Black and Asian artists initiate through their work. Afro Asia breaks down delineated time into points, trajectories, angles, magnitudes and relative positions so that temporality and chronology figure primarily as questions of geometry: it asks if and how we can we be something other than what biology, politics, culture, and economics tells us we are or must become. Spanning North America, Europe, Asia, and Africa, this book challenges the institutionalization of contemporary art as a global enterprise increasingly governed by the judgments of a self-selecting minority"--

Black Enterprise

Black Enterprise
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 379
Release: 1995-06
Genre:
ISBN:

BLACK ENTERPRISE is the ultimate source for wealth creation for African American professionals, entrepreneurs and corporate executives. Every month, BLACK ENTERPRISE delivers timely, useful information on careers, small business and personal finance.

A Good Place to Live

A Good Place to Live
Author: Terry Pindell
Publisher: Owl Books
Total Pages: 432
Release: 1997-01-01
Genre: Travel
ISBN: 9780805050240

After living for twenty years in a picture-book New England town, Terry Pindell sensed something missing in his community and set out to find it. What he soon discovered was that he was participating in a widespread contemporary phenomenon. In this book, brings us to sixteen of his favorite places as he talks to the people who are re-creating communities with a heart, a focal point, and a strong, unique often idiosyncratic sense of place.