Lorna Simpson

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Tent. Losn Angeles, Museum of Contemporary Art, 16-04-2006, 10-07-2006 ; Miami, Miami Art Museum, 13-10-2006, 21-01-2007 ; New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, 08-02-2007, 06-05-2007 ; Charleston, The Gibbes Museum of Art, 07-09-2007, 02-12-2007. - Monografie over de fotografe Lorna Simpson (Brooklyn 1960) die gezien wordt als vertegenwoordigster van de Afro-Amerikaanse visuele cultuur met haar foto's van zwarte vrouwen. - Lorna Simpson is one of the leading artists of her generation, devoted to the beauty of image-making, innovatively juxtaposing the figure and gesture with text and narrative. This rich monograph, created to accompany the major retrospective of Simpson's work touring in Los Angeles, Miami, and New York (among other destinations) beginning this spring, includes insightful essays by curator and critic Okwui Enwezor and "New Yorker" writer Hilton Als, and a conversation with the artist, Isaac Julien, and Thelma Golden, along with 126 reproductions from Simpson's formally elegant, subtly provocative body of work-including her recent work.