Research Catalog

Details

Additional authors

1. Julien, Isaac
2. Wangechi Mutu
3. Legion of Honor (San Francisco, Calif.), host institution.

Description

1. 159 pages, 9 unnumbered pages : color illustrations; 28 cm

Summary

1. "Wangechi Mutu takes viewers on journeys of material, psychological and sociopolitical transformation; this volume explores her most recent groundbreaking work. Over the past two decades, Mutu has created chimerical constellations of powerful female characters, hybrid beings and fantastical landscapes. With a rare understanding of the need for powerful new mythologies beyond simple binaries and stereotypes, Mutu breaches common distinctions between human, animal, plant and machine. An artist who calls both Nairobi and New York City home, Mutu moves voraciously between cultural traditions to challenge colonialist, racist and sexist worldviews with her visionary projection of an alternate universe informed by Afrofuturism, posthumanism and feminism. This dazzling book accompanies a presentation of Mutu's new work on view at the Legion, along with a greater selection from her landmark oeuvre. It is the most comprehensive book on the artist to date."--Provided by publisher.

Alternative title

1. I am speaking, are you listening?

Subject

1. Wangechi Mutu > Exhibitions
2. Wangechi Mutu > Interviews
3. Wangechi Mutu
4. 2000-2099
5. Women, Black, in art > 21st century > Exhibitions
6. Art, Kenyan > United States > Exhibitions
7. Art, Modern > 21st century > Exhibitions
8. Collage > Kenya > 21st century
9. Collage > United States > 21st century > Exhibitions
10. Installations (Art) > Exhibitions
11. Multimedia (Art) > United States > 21st century > Exhibitions
12. Women artists, Black > Kenya > 21st century
13. Art, Kenyan
14. Art, Modern
15. Collage
16. Multimedia (Art)
17. Women artists, Black
18. Women, Black, in art
19. Kenya
20. United States

Genre/Form

1. Exhibition catalogs.
2. Interviews.

Contents

1. Foreword / Thomas P. Campbell -- Art as a "weapon of mass construction" / Claudia Schmuckli -- Making histories / Wangechi Mutu in conversation with Isaac Julien and Claudia Schmuckli -- I am speaking / Wangechi Mutu -- Gallery -- Checklist of the exhibition -- Acknowledgments.

Call number

1. Sc F 22-133

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references.

Exhibitions (note)

1. Published on the occasion of the exhibition Wangechi Mutu: I am speaking, are you listening? at the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, May 7-November 7, 2021.

Author

1. Schmuckli, Claudia, author, curator, interviewer.

Title

1. Wangechi Mutu : I am speaking, are you listening? / Claudia Schmuckli with Isaac Julien and Wangechi Mutu.

Publisher

1. San Francisco, CA : Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco ; New York, NY : DelMonico Books · D.A.P., [2021]

Copyright date

1. ©2021

Type of content

1. still image
2. text

Type of medium

1. unmediated

Type of carrier

1. volume

Bibliography

1. Includes bibliographical references.

Exhibitions

1. Published on the occasion of the exhibition Wangechi Mutu: I am speaking, are you listening? at the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, May 7-November 7, 2021.

Chronological term

1. 2000-2099

Added author

1. Julien, Isaac, interviewer.
2. Wangechi Mutu, artist, author, interviewee.
3. Legion of Honor (San Francisco, Calif.), host institution.

ISBN

1. 9781636810058 (hardcover)
2. 1636810055 (hardcover)

Research call number

1. Sc F 22-133