Terry Adkins : recital : The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College

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Object Details

artist
Adkins, Terry 1953-2014
issuing body
Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery
host institution
Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art
publisher
Prestel Verlag
Subject
Adkins, Terry 1953-2014
Catalog of an exhibition held at the Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery, July 14-December 2, 2012, and at the Mary & Leigh Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University, January 11-March 24, 2013.
"Terry Adkins Recital" : July 14-December 2, 2012, The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, New York, United States.
"Terry Adkins Recital" : January 11-March 24, 2013, Mary & Leigh Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, United States.
Contents
Introduction / Ian Berry -- Notes on the precious few A. D. / Terry Adkins -- Magus and Adnachiel / Lauren Haynes -- Wanting more: A dialogue with Terry Adkins / Ian Berry -- Smoke stack / Adrienne Edwards -- The sound of Terry Adkins / George E. Lewis -- Last trumpet / Akili Tommasino -- Chanting bees and other translations: the video projects of Terry Adkins / Charles Gaines -- A path, as long as the ear can hear / Anthony Elms -- A certain kind of luminescence: the recitals of Terry Adkins / Okwui Enwezor -- Catalogue of the exhibition -- Archive / compiled by Hillary Reder -- Concentrated Passion of the Circle and the Square / Michael Brenson -- Terry Adkins at LedisFlam / Nancy Princenthal -- Interview with Terry Adkins / Deirdre L. Bibby -- Living space / Terry Adkins -- Terry Adkins: Later Coltrane / Nancy Princenthal -- A short note on content and intent: Terry Adkins and John Brown After Flame / Carl Hazlewood -- Might could be / Annette Dimeo Carlozzi -- Imagined history: The work of Terry Adkins / Cheryl Finley -- Thunderbolt Special: The Great Electric Show and Dance (after Sam Lightnin' Hopkins): Project Row Houses / Valerie Cassel Oliver -- Terry Adkins / Cathryn Drake -- Seeing Voices: Terry Adkins's Darkwater Record / Kenneth W. Warren -- Terry Adkins / Casey Ruble -- Exhibition history
Summary
"In his sculpture, performance, photography, and video, Terry Adkins (1953-2014) transformed found materials, archival imagery, and reclaimed actions in a process he called potential disclosure. His provocative art and ideas often pay homage to the legacies of enigmatic figures such as John Coltrane, Bessie Smith, W. E. B. Du Bois, John Brown, and Matthew Henson. Adkins's creative research intended to resuscitate his chosen subjects from historical erasure, and to shed light on willfully neglected or lesser-known aspects of their biographies. This book includes new writings, archival essays and reviews, Adkins's last interviews and his own writings about his life and art"--Back cover.
2017
20th century
Type
Exhibitions
Music
Exhibition catalogs
Physical description
299 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), portraits ; 30 cm
Place
United States
Title
Recital : The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College
Smithsonian Libraries
Topic
Sound sculpture
African Americans--Influence
African American artists
Record ID
siris_sil_1099521
Metadata Usage (text)
CC0