Kehinde Wiley: Columbus - Hardcover

WILEY, Kehinde

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0918881625 ISBN 13: 9780918881625

Publisher: Columbus Museum of Art / Roberts & Tilton, 2006

Synopsis

"Kehinde Wiley's portraits of African American men collate modern culture with the influence of Old Masters. Incorporating a range of vernaculars culled from art historical references, Wiley's work melds a fluid concept of modern culture, ranging from French Rococo to today's urban landscape. By collapsing history and style into a unique contemporary vision, Wiley interrogates the notion of master painter, "making it at once critical and complicit." Vividly colorful and often adorned with ornate gilded frames, Wiley's large-scale figurative paintings, which are illuminated with a barrage of baroque or rococo decorative patterns, posit young black men, fashioned in urban attire, within the field of power reminiscent of Renaissance artists such as Tiepolo and Titian"

About this edition

• Publisher: Columbus Museum of Art / Roberts & Tilton
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0918881625
• ISBN 13: 9780918881625
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 40