Jimmie Durham

by Calvino, Italo; Durant, Mark Alice; Durham, Jimmie

• ISBN13: 9780714833484
• ISBN10: 0714833487
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1995-10-19
• Publisher: Phaidon Press

Summary

This text examines the work of Jimmie Durham, the sculptor and performancertist of Cherokee descent.;The book is part of a series of studies ofmportant artists of the late-20th century. Each title offers a comprehensiveurvey of the artist's work, providing analyses and multiple perspectives onontemporary art and its inspiration.

Author Biography

Laura Mulvey is a filmmaker and film theorist. She is Professor of Film and Media Studies at Birkbeck College, University of London, and author of Visual and Other Pleasures and Death 24 x a Second.

Dirk Snauwaert is Artistic Director of Wiel in Brussels and was Curator of the Kunstverein in Munich, the IAC at Villeurbanne in France and the Palais des Beaux Arts in Brussels, where he co-curated Jimmie Durham's first restrospective in 1993.

Mark Alice Durant is an artist and author whose writings on photography, activist art and cultural resistance have appeared in such art journals as Art in America and Artscribe. He currently teaches at the University of Maryland in College Park and at Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York.

Table of Contents

Interview with Jimmie Durham	p. 6
Changing Objects, Preserving Time	p. 32
The Caliban Codex or A Thing Most Brutish	p. 76
The Tavern, 1969	p. 92
Six Memos from the Next Millennium, 1988	p. 95
The Poor People, 1970	p. 98
I Think We Will Have to Break Out, 1973	p. 99
Columbus Day, 1975	p. 100
Tarascan Guitars, 1976	p. 101
The Mystery of the Two Islands, 1986	p. 102
Interview with a 10,000 Year Old Artist, 1983	p. 110
Shoot Three Hands, 1988	p. 114
Covert Operations, 1993	p. 118
Gado usdi hia?, 1993	p. 128
How I Made My Sauce, 1993	p. 134
Gilgamesh and Me, 1993	p. 136
A Friend of Mine Said That Art Is a European Invention, 1994	p. 140
Chronology	p. 148
Bibliography	p. 159
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