Chris Ofili: Night and Day
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Chris Ofili: Night and Day by Massimiliano Gioni
A major survey including new and celebrated works by Turner Prize-winning artist Chris Ofili. Set to accompany the first major museum show in the United States of contemporary British artist Chris Ofili, this richly illustrated volume surveys two decades of artworks that meld figuration, abstraction, and decoration to yield hybrid juxtapositions of high and low culture. Best known for intricately constructed works featuring beadlike dots of paint, elephant dung, and images culled from popular media, Ofili's unique lexicon combines African culture, Western art history, and hip-hop music, spanning a wide variety of sources which include the Bible, Zimbabwean cave paintings, Blaxploitation films, and William Blake's poems. Animated by exotic characters, outlandish landscapes, and folkloric myths, Ofili's most recent work resonates with references to the paintings of Henri Matisse and Paul Gauguin. This compelling new book offers a fresh perspective on the artist's vital practice, which both celebrates and calls into question the power of images and their ability to address fundamental questions of representation.
Massimiliano Gioni is associate director and director of exhibitions, Gary Carrion-Murayari is curator, and Margot Norton is assistant curator at the New Museum, New York.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780847844562 |
| ISBN 10 | 0847844560 |
| Title | Chris Ofili: Night and Day |
| Author | Massimiliano Gioni |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Rizzoli International Publications |
| Year published | 2014-10-28 |
| Number of pages | 240 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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