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Essays by Steve Cannon, Tom Finkelpearl, and Kellie Jones Photographs by Dawoud Bey and Bruce Talamon
Rousing the Rubble celebrates two decades of work by artist David Hammons, who has risen to prominence while at the same time consciously ducking the attention of critics, galleries, and museums, preferring to "do things in the street." A recipient of both a MacArthur Foundation "genius" award and a Prix de Rome, Hammons places himself as an artist between Arte Povera and Marcel Duchamp. He makes his art from refuse and the detritus of African-American life: chicken wings, Thunderbird and Night Train bottles, clippings from dreadlocks, basketball hoops. Hammons's deeply felt political views on race and cultural stereotypes give his witty and elegant sculptures, installations, and body prints an integrity that promises to keep the focus on his art rather than on his career.
Illustrated with nearly 100 photographs (both black and white and color), Rousing the Rubble covers the full range of Hammons's art and his methods of creating it. Steve Cannon's rap poem takes the reader on a freewheeling bicycle ride from Harlem to the Lower East Side in New York and is joyously infused with the same energies and inspirations as Hammons' work. Tom Finkelpearl discusses the power of the dirty, used objects Hammons prefers and how they relate to the clean" art exhibited in conventional gallery settings. And Kellie Jones examines how Hammons's art evolved from Los Angeles in the 1960s to New York and Rome in the present day.
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The title of this book exemplifies an old problem in both the art and publishing worlds: how established institutions can present an artist whose most important claims are founded on a criticism of and independence from such institutions without mitigating those claims. Hammons's work avoids the trap of marginality by using an iconography and methodology springing from and presented within his urban African American context. Though he has made plenty of works imbued with art-historical references--works subsequently installed at the Venice Bieniele and at hip galleries--these are his marginalia instead of his crowning crossover accomplishments. Even more surprising than the artist's ability to control the spin of his work is this book's success in conveying Hammons's art in its original environment--which most readers will find alien. Three contrasting essays--a traditional retrospective, a 'rap-poem' evoking both the physical and psychic New York, and an essay "On the Ideology of Dirt"--encourage readers to focus on "the questions suggested by the work itself." Highly recommended for all contemporary American art collections. --Eric Bryant, "Library Journal"
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Rousing the Rubble [RARE 1991 1ST EDITION]
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The Institute for Contemporary Art, P.S. 1 Museum / MIT Press, 1991
ISBN 10: 0262031841
ISBN 13: 9780262031844
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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: fine. First Edition, First Printing. New York; The Institute for Contemporary Art, P.S. 1 Museum / MIT Press, 1991. Hardcover in pictorial dust jacket. 95 pages with numerous photographic images and illustrations throughout. Original boards with printed dustjacket. The book was published in conjunction with the retrospective exhibition of Hammons's works. With texts by Kellie Jones, Tom Finkelpearl and Steve Cannon, and an introduction by Alanna Heiss. Photographic essays by Dawoud Bey and Bruce Talamoun. From the publisher: "Rousing the Rubble celebrates the energetic work of American artist David Hammons, who until now has ducked the attention of art critics, traditional galleries and museums. Preferring to 'do things in the street', Hammons, a recent recipient of a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship, places himself as an artist between Arte Povera and Marcel Duchamp. He creates his art from urban refuse and the detritus of African American life -- chicken wings, Night Train bottles, clippings of African American hair. Hammons' witty and elegant sculptures, body prints and installations are the product of his deeply felt views on racism and cultural stereotypes." BOOK CONDITION: Fine; a solid, tight, clean copy in a Fine dust jacket. Seller Inventory # 11217
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David Hammons: Rousing the Rubble
ISBN 10: 0262031841
ISBN 13: 9780262031844
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Dust Jacket Condition: dj. First Edition. First edition and first printing. Hardcover. 95 pages. A relatively early monograph on David Hammons published in conjunction a traveling exhibition. Features an introduction by Alanna Heiss and essays by Steve Cannon, Kellie Jones, and Tom Finkelpearl. Includes photographs by Dawoud Bey and Bruce Talamon. A clean and tight very near fine copy in cloth boards and in a very near fine dust jacket. A lovely copy. Seller Inventory # 216542
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David Hammons: Rousing the Rubble
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Hardcover with dustjacket, 96 pages; good condition; spine slightly slanted; 1-inch tear to dj at top edge of rear; pen writing to 3 pages. Foreign shipping may be extra. Seller Inventory # DaHaPS500.1
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hardcover. Condition: Like New. Dust Jacket Condition: Like New. First Edition. Publisher: MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 1991.FINE hardcover book in FINE mylar-protected dust-jacket. Previous owner's artistic embossed stamp at bottom of the black front free end paper (Barely noticeable), otherwise as new. First Edition, First Printing. Seller Inventory # 2312100004
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David Hammons: Rousing the Rubble
Seller: Glands of Destiny First Edition Books, Sedro Woolley, WA, U.S.A.
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hardcover. Condition: Like New. Dust Jacket Condition: Like New. First Edition. Publisher: MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 1991.FINE hardcover book in FINE mylar-protected dust-jacket. Previous owner's artistic embossed stamp at bottom of the black front free end paper (Barely noticeable), otherwise as new. First Edition, First Printing. Seller Inventory # 2312100005