Wangechi Mutu : a fantastic journey

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Wangechi Mutu : a fantastic journey

edited by Trevor Schoonmaker ; essays, Trevor Schoonmaker, Kristine Stiles, Greg Tate

Nasher Museum of Art, Duke University , Distributed by Duke University Press, c2013

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Fantastic journey

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Published to accompany an exhibition held at the Nasher Museum of Art, Duke University, March 21-July 21, 2013; Brooklyn Museum, October 11, 2013-March 9, 2014; Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami, April 11-July 6, 2014; and Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, September 19-December 7, 2014

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This richly illustrated full-color catalog accompanies the first major solo museum exhibition and most comprehensive survey of the artist Wangechi Mutu's work, on view at the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University from March 21, 2013, through July 21, 2013, before traveling to the Brooklyn Museum. Born in Nairobi, Kenya, in 1972, and now based in Brooklyn, Mutu renders the complex global sensibility of the early twenty-first century through a distinctly hybrid aesthetic. She combines found materials and magazine cutouts with sculpture and painted imagery, sampling from sources and phenomena as diverse as African traditions, international politics, the fashion industry, and science fiction. In her work, Mutu marries poetic symbolism with sociopolitical critique to explore issues of gender, race, war, colonialism, and, particularly, the exoticization of the black female body.The many images included in Wangechi Mutu: A Fantastic Journey highlight the most important and iconic works that Mutu has created since the mid-1990s, as well as portray new collages, drawings, videos, and site-specific installations. The catalog also offers an intimate look into her sketchbooks and includes an interview with the artist conducted by the exhibition's curator, Trevor Schoonmaker. Essays by Schoonmaker, the art historian Kristine Stiles, and the critic, musician, and producer Greg Tate are paired with an illustrated chronology of Mutu's work. Publication of the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University

Table of Contents

Foreword / Sarah Schroth 13 Curator's Acknowledgments / Trevor Schoonmaker 15 Artist's Acknowledgments / Wangechi Mutu 17 A Fantastic Journey / Trevor Schoonmaker 21 Wangechi Mutu's Family Tree / Kristine Stiles 51 The Gikuyu Mythos vs. the Cullud Grrrl from Out of Space, A Wangechi Mutu Feature / Greg Tate 83 A Conversation / Wangechi Mutu and Trevor Schoonmaker 95 A Fantastic Journey at the Nasher Museum of Art 118 Wangechi Mutu: Selected Biography 146 Contributors 153 Exhibition Checklist 156 Wangechi Mutu: Selected Bibliography 165 Biography Reproduction Credits 167

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