Chris Ofili : night and day / Massimiliano Gioni ; with contributions by Glenn Ligon, Minna Moore Ede, Alicia Ritson, Matthew Ryder, Robert Storr, Lynette Yiadom-Boakye ; exhibition organized by Massimiliano Gioni with Gary Carrion-Murayari and Margot Norton.

By:

Ofili, Chris, 1968- [artist.]

Contributor(s):

Material type: Text

TextNew York, NY : Skira Rizzoli : New Museum, [2014]ISBN:

0847844560
9780847844562

Other title:

Night and day

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

759.2 OFI

Contents:

Lush life / Massimiliano Gioni -- Inspired by Ovid / Minna Moore Ede -- It don\'t mean a thing if it ain\'t got that sting / Robert Storr -- Blue black / Glenn Ligon -- Blue devils / Matthew Ryder -- Between heaven and hell: the Holy Virgin Mary at the Brooklyn Museum / Alicia Ritson -- Within reach: tricolor/jet-black epic / Lynette Yiadom-Boakye.

Summary: 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-- Publisher\'s website.

Holdings
Item type	Current library	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Standard Loan	LSAD Library Main Collection	759.2 OFI (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	Available		39002100590349

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

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.

Catalog of an exhibition held at New Museum, New York, October 29, 2014 - February 1, 2015.

Includes bibliographical references.

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-- Publisher\'s website.

Author notes provided by Syndetics

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.