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Adam Pendleton: Who Is Queen? A Reader

By Lynne Tillman and Danielle A. Jackson and Adrienne Edwards and Stuart Comer and Mario Gooden and Adam Pendleton
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Adam Pendleton: Who Is Queen? A Reader explores the artistic practice and conceptual framework of Adam Pendleton through a rich compilation of engaging essays and reflections. It delves into themes of identity, cultural history, and abstraction, offering a multifaceted view of his work. The book serves as a dynamic dialogue between the contributors and Pendleton's innovative approach to art and culture.
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You might enjoy this book if you are intrigued by contemporary art and the intersection of culture, identity, and history. It offers a rich exploration of creative expression, featuring contributions from notable voices in the arts and cultural commentary. If you're interested in discovering how modern artists navigate and challenge societal narratives, this book could be quite appealing to you.

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The Adam Pendleton: Who Is Queen? reader will serve as a primer and handbook to the exhibition and will be compiled of photocopied textual sources. Who Is Queen? brings together text and imagery that foregrounds the relationship between abstraction and politics.

The Adam Pendleton: Who Is Queen? reader will serve as a primer and handbook to the exhibition and will be compiled of photocopied textual sources. Drawing on the work of figures as disparate as Michael Hardt, Ruby Sales, and Glenn Gould, Who Is Queen? bring together text and imagery that foregrounds the relationship between abstraction and politics.

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Adam Pendleton (American, b. 1984) is a conceptual artist who uses historical and aesthetic content from visual culture to explore the ways in which context influences meaning. Drawing from a substantial archive that references both artistic and cultural movements, including Dada, Minimalism, Black Power, and the Civil Rights movement, among others, Pendleton reconfigures words, forms, and images to provoke critical questioning.

Published to accompany a multimedia installation at MoMA, this reader serves as a primer and handbook to the exhibition and features an artist intervention of photocopied textual sources, many of which directly relate to the content and programming of the exhibition. The project questions the notion of the museum as repository, and addresses the influence that mass movements, including those of the last decade such as Black Lives Matter and Occupy, can have on the exhibition as form.

Drawing on the work of figures as disparate as Michael Hardt, Ruby Sales, and Glenn Gould, Who Is Queen? seeks to explore the nexus of abstraction and politics.

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Adam Pendleton: Who Is Queen? A Reader has been praised for its innovative blend of fonts, textures, and graphic elements that create a rhythmic experience across its pages. The book is likened to a university course reader mixed with a designer’s process book, featuring influential thinkers addressing themes of abstraction, political histories, and identity complexities. It challenges societal identity labels, drawing from Pendleton’s personal experiences, and offers a multidisciplinary reading experience through its harmonised collection of diverse voices.

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ISBN: 9781633451100

Publisher: Museum of Modern Art

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 16 September 2021

Country: United States

Imprint: Museum of Modern Art

Illustration: 255 Illustrations

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 200.0mm

Height: 250.0mm

Weight: 1220g

Pages: 272

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Adam Pendleton Adrienne Edwards Arts & Culture Danielle A. Jackson Education & Reference Lynne Tillman Mario Gooden Non-Fiction Stuart Comer

About the Author

Stuart Comer is The Lonti Ebers Chief Curator, Department of Media and Performance at The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Adrienne Edwards is Engell Speyer Family Curator and Curator of Performance at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. Danielle A. Jackson is a Curatorial Assistant in the Department of Media and Performance at MoMA. Mario Gooden is a principal and founder of Huff + Gooden Architects. Adam Pendleton is a conceptual artist works in a wide array of mediums (painting, collage, video, and installation), Pendleton's methodology is known as "Black Dada," a process that brings together disparate voices while simultaneously addressing the codes of representation and abstraction, the aesthetics of blackness, and the uses of language. Lynne Tillman is a novelist, short story writer, and cultural critic.

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