Wangechi Mutu
Subtitle: a fantastic journey
By: edited by Trevor Schoonmaker ; essays, Trevor Schoonmaker, Kristine Stiles, Greg Tate
Contributors: Schoonmaker, Trevor, editor, writer of supplementary textual content, interviewer; Stiles, Kristine, writer of supplementary textual content; Tate, Greg, writer of supplementary textual content; Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University; Brooklyn Museum; Museum of Contemporary Art (North Miami, Fla.); Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art
Publisher: Nasher Museum of Art, Duke University; Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University; Duke University Press Books
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Durham, N.C.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 167
ISBN-13: 9780938989363
Copyright date: 2013
Subjects: Exhibitions; Interviews; Women, Black, in art; Kenyan Art; Modern Art; Multimedia (Art); Collage; Social problems in art; Black Women artists
Other titles: Fantastic journey
Work titles: Works
Description: "This richly illustrated full-color catalog accompanies the first major solo museum exhibition and most comprehensive survey of the artist Wangechi Mutu's work, on view at the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University from March 21, 2013, through July 21, 2013, before traveling to the Brooklyn Museum. Born in Nairobi, Kenya, in 1972, and now based in Brooklyn, Mutu renders the complex global sensibility of the early twenty-first century through a distinctly hybrid aesthetic. She combines found materials and magazine cutouts with sculpture and painted imagery, sampling from sources and phenomena as diverse as African traditions, international politics, the fashion industry, and science fiction. In her work, Mutu marries poetic symbolism with sociopolitical critique to explore issues of gender, race, war, colonialism, and, particularly, the exoticization of the black female body. The many images included in Wangechi Mutu: A Fantastic Journey highlight the most important and iconic works that Mutu has created since the mid-1990s, as well as portray new collages, drawings, videos, and site-specific installations. The catalog also offers an intimate look into her sketchbooks and includes an interview with the artist conducted by the exhibition's curator, Trevor Schoonmaker. Essays by Schoonmaker, the art historian Kristine Stiles, and the critic, musician, and producer Greg Tate are paired with an illustrated chronology of Mutu's work."--Publisher's website.
Notes: Published to accompany an exhibition held at the Nasher Museum of Art, Duke University, March 21-July 21, 2013; Brooklyn Museum, October 11, 2013-March 9, 2014; Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami, April 11-July 6, 2014; and Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, September 19-December 7, 2014.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: A fantastic journey / Trevor Schoonmaker; title: Wangechi Mutu's family tree / Kristine Stiles; title: The Gikuyu mythos vs. the Cullud grrl from out of space, a Wangechi Mutu feature / Greg Tate; title: A conversation / Wangechi Mutu and Trevor Schoonmaker; title: A fantastic journey at the Nasher Museum of Art; title: Wangechi Mutu : selected biography; title: Contributors; title: Exhibition checklist.