Carrie Mae Weems
Subtitle: kitchen table series
By: foreword by Sarah Lewis ; essay by Adrienne Edwards ; design by Takaaki Matsumoto
Contributors: Lewis, Sarah Elizabeth, 1979- writer of foreword; Edwards, Adrienne (Art critic), writer of added text; Matsumoto, Takaaki, book designer
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 85
ISBN-13: 9788862084628
Subjects: Kitchens; African American women; Artistic Photography; African Americans; Pictorial works; Women
Other titles: Kitchen table series
Description: "'Kitchen Table Series' is the first publication dedicated solely to this early and important body of work by the American artist Carrie Mae Weems. The 20 photographs and 14 text panels that make up the artwork tell a story of one womans life, as conducted in the intimate setting of her kitchen. The kitchen, one of the primary spaces of domesticity and the traditional domain of women, frames her story, revealing to us her relationships--with lovers, children, friends--and her own sense of self, in her varying projections of strength, vulnerability, aloofness, tenderness, and solitude. 'Kitchen Table Series' seeks to reposition and reimagine the possibility of women and the possibility of people of color, and has to do with, in the artists words “unrequited love."" -- Publisher's website
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Foreword  -- Sarah Lewis; title: Scenes of the Flesh: Thinking-Feeling Carrie Mae Weem's Kitchen Table Series Twenty-Five Years On  -- Adrienne Edwards; title: Kitchen Table Series, 1990 --; title: About the Artist.