Mark Bradford: Scorched Earth - Hardcover

Butler, Connie

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 3791354299 ISBN 13: 9783791354293

Publisher: Prestel, 2015

Synopsis

This generously illustrated volume features Mark Bradford’s newest work which deals with the body and the performance of identity. Mark Bradford’s layered, multi-textured paintings have earned him wide critical acclaim. His latest body of work comprises a new group of paintings and a video, each of which cycles around the idea of the body in crisis. Bradford witnessed the LA riots (1992) from his studio and has translated the fury, fear, outrage, pandemonium, and lasting wounds into artworks. This volume reproduces in full new paintings in which Bradford carved into the layered surface of the work creating depressions and arteries that structure these otherwise abstract compositions. Bradford’s new video references the history of black standup comedy taking on Eddie Murphy’s controversial concert film “Delirious” (1983). In the video Bradford takes on Murphy’s searing comments on sexuality, reinterpreting this important cultural moment while considering the modalities of gender and its performance. Accompanying texts include Bradford's trenchant performance script and a scholarly text by Butler explores Bradford’s critique of pervasive cultural racism and homophobia in society as a whole.

About this title

About the Author:

Connie Butler is the chief curator at the Hammer Museum. She is the co-author of Made in L.A. 2014 (DelMonico BooksPrestel).

About this edition

• Publisher: Prestel
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 3791354299
• ISBN 13: 9783791354293
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 208