Product Description: This book of photographs and drawings by American artist Jimmie Durham (born 1940) is described by the artist as a "road book." Its story begins with the French founding of Detroit, explores the city's race riots in the twentieth century and then segues into a brief history of the American automobile industry...read more
9783865609205 | Pap/dvd bl edition (Walther Konig, September 30, 2011), cover price $55.00 | About this edition: This book of photographs and drawings by American artist Jimmie Durham (born 1940) is described by the artist as a "road book.
Product Description: Staged in the eighteenth-century convent church Sala Verónicas, the year-long exhibition project Dominó Canibal invited a succession of artists to create his or her work based on that of the preceding artist, either destroying, appropriating or reinterpreting it...read more
9788434312623 | Poligrafa Ediciones Sa, June 30, 2011, cover price $40.00 | About this edition: Staged in the eighteenth-century convent church Sala Verónicas, the year-long exhibition project Dominó Canibal invited a succession of artists to create his or her work based on that of the preceding artist, either destroying, appropriating or reinterpreting it.
Product Description: Internationally known in the 1980s for the colorful, pseudo-ethnographic objects and installations in which he wittily attacked Western colonizing tendencies, Jimmie Durham's more recent work has been underrepresented. Since the artist settled in Europe in 1994, he has been producing startling bricolages, objects and installations, a retrospective of which will be exhibited over the course of this year...read more
9789075380743 | Artimo Foundation, December 30, 2006, cover price $50.00 | About this edition: Internationally known in the 1980s for the colorful, pseudo-ethnographic objects and installations in which he wittily attacked Western colonizing tendencies, Jimmie Durham's more recent work has been underrepresented.
Product Description: This retrospective of the first five years of Trace, an independent art gallery in Cardiff, Wales, celebrates its standing as an international center for installation and real-time art. Essays by cultural historian Heike Roms and artist Julie Bacon chronicle the history of the gallery, and photographs capture the controversial and inventive works that have passed through the gallery doors since opening day...read more
9781854114082 | Seren Books/Poetry Wales Pr Ltd, December 30, 2006, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: This retrospective of the first five years of Trace, an independent art gallery in Cardiff, Wales, celebrates its standing as an international center for installation and real-time art.
Product Description: Principally working with salvaged materials, Cherokee Jimmie Durham--poet, writer, and visual artist--makes tongue-in-cheek assaults on the enduring colonial foundations which are firmly anchored to the base of Western culture. Durham, an activist in the American Indian Movement in the 1970s, can sum up his artistic and political process in his will to "be so surgically specific it becomes universal...read more
9788881584925 | Charta, July 30, 2005, cover price $37.95 | About this edition: Principally working with salvaged materials, Cherokee Jimmie Durham--poet, writer, and visual artist--makes tongue-in-cheek assaults on the enduring colonial foundations which are firmly anchored to the base of Western culture.
Product Description: This text examines the work of Jimmie Durham, the sculptor and performance artist of Cherokee descent. The book is part of a series of studies of important artists of the late-20th century. Each title offers a comprehensive survey of the artist's work, providing analyses and multiple perspectives on contemporary art and its inspiration...read more
9780714833484 | Phaidon Inc Ltd, October 19, 1995, cover price $45.00 | About this edition: This text examines the work of Jimmie Durham, the sculptor and performance artist of Cherokee descent.
Product Description: This book features Jimmie Durham’s poems, prose, drawings, and speeches, giving an overview of his place in his society, world society, time, and history.”The mystical drawings complement these hard-edged, lyric, bitter, humorous and always honest poems, which at their best are, as the writer intended, ‘as eloquent as the sound of a rattlesnake...read more
9780931122309 | West End Pr, August 1, 1983, cover price $8.95 | About this edition: This book features Jimmie Durham’s poems, prose, drawings, and speeches, giving an overview of his place in his society, world society, time, and history.