The Culture: Hip Hop & Contemporary Art in the 21st Century
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A sweeping survey of hip hop’s resounding impact on contemporary art and culture across the past 20-plus years Accompanying a groundbreaking exhibition originating at the Baltimore Museum of Art, this book captures the extraordinary influence of hip hop, which has driven innovations in music, visual and performing arts, fashion, and technology and grown into a global phenomenon since its emergence in the 1970s. It features approximately 70 objects by both established and emerging artists, design houses, streetwear icons and musicians working in a wide range of mediums to demonstrate hip hop’s proliferation from the street to the runway, the studio to the museum gallery, and countless sites in between. The exhibition also explores how hip hop has and continues to challenge structures of power, dominant cultural narratives, and political and social systems of oppression. This fully illustrated monograph documents the exhibition and contains texts and interviews from more than 30 artists and scholars. Artists include : Nina Chanel Abney, Dionne Alexander, Maxwell Alexandre, Devin Allen, Alvaro Barrington, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Grace Wales Bonner, Mark Bradford, Jordan Casteel, Willy Chavarria, Caitlin Cherry, Troy Chew II, William Cordova, Carl Jones, Stan Douglas, John Edmonds, Gajin Fujita, Monica Ikegwu, Shabez Jamal, Kahlil Joseph, Nia June, LA II, Deana Lawson, Eric N. Mack, Emmanuel Massillon, Julie Mehretu, Murjoni Merriweather, Jayson Musson, Rashaad Newsome, Yvonne Osei, Zéh Palito, Gordon Parks, Adam Pendleton, Robert Pruitt, Rammellzee, Sheila Rashid, Rozeal, Joyce J. Scott, Tschabalala Self, Tariku Shiferaw, Devan Shimoyama, Hank Willis Thomas, Carrie Mae Weems, Vivienne Westwood and Malcolm McLaren, Abbey Williams, Pharrell Williams and Wilmer Wilson IV. Authors include : Ebony Haynes, Todd Boyd, Lester Spence, Jordana Moore Saggese, Greg Tate, Misa Hylton, Elena Romero, Ekow Eshun, Devin Allen, Michael Holman, Simone White, Salome Asega, Alphonse Pierre, David A.M. Goldberg and Tahir Hemphill, Jacolby Satterwhite, Wendel Patrick, Simon Reynolds, Seph Rodney, Jesse McCarthy, Danez Smith, Noriko Manabe, Lindsay Knight and Charity Marsh, Shaheem Sanchez, Jeffrey Q. McCune, Jr., Sekou Cooke, Jessica N. Pabón-Colón, Martha Cooper, Skeme, Alex de Mora and Lawrence Burney. Review: Good Detailed Book - A good coffee table book. Review: It's okay - The product arrived in great condition brand new. I went to the exhibition in St. Louis and it was STUNNING! The book? This book is not well done. It's too much. It's like they tried to cram all this information in but I would have preferred that it be more about the exhibit. That is in there but it's mixed in with all this other stuff no one asked for.
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| Customer Reviews | 4.2 out of 5 stars 18 Reviews |
J**S
Good Detailed Book
A good coffee table book.
P**0
It's okay
The product arrived in great condition brand new. I went to the exhibition in St. Louis and it was STUNNING! The book? This book is not well done. It's too much. It's like they tried to cram all this information in but I would have preferred that it be more about the exhibit. That is in there but it's mixed in with all this other stuff no one asked for.
J**D
Good Book But Poorly Designed
I really do like this read. I’ve been using this book as a part of my coffee table collection and have only opened this book 3 times. When I opened the packaging, the spine looked like it wouldn’t hold, but then I thought that the publisher may have used a strong adhesive. Last night, the entire cover came off… super disappointed.
D**X
Interesting, but not really about hip hop's influence on fine art
A beautifully done and opulent book that covers multiple aspects of THE CULTURE from beat to art. But in the end it's mainly (to a rather large degree) about hip hop's influence on fashion, style, street art, photography, design, music – pop culture, if you will. I personally (yep, 100% my bad) expected something else, namely how hip hop came to have influence on art in general – think Basquiat (he's obviously in the book / the exhibition). The artists featured in THE CULTURE (especially black female artists) are being represented with works that deal with themes you'll also find in hip hop (gender types & stereotypes, body, sexuality, style, selfexpression, identity, consumerism, power, …). Hip hop's influence, it seems, is somewhat confined when it comes to fine art. It's different with fashion, style, street art, photography, design, music, where hip hop has been and still is a force majeure – in art (opposite to my expectation) it's seemingly different as hip hop has not been able to exert an influence truly mainstreamy. Which is something one can lament, or adress. BUT: I sent the book back primarily because it arrived damaged. I had to send the replacement back as well because it also arrived damaged. I think Amazon should reconsider their packaging for art books. Standard packaging does not work here. +++ Ein großartige gemachtes und opulentes Buch, das viele Aspekte von THE CULTURE vom Beat bis zur Kunst abdeckt. Letztendlich geht es aber hauptsächlich (zu einem ziemlich großen Teil) um den Einfluss von Hip Hop auf Mode, Stil, Street Art, Fotografie, Design, Musik - Popkultur, wenn man so will. Ich persönlich (ja, 100 % meine Schuld) hatte etwas anderes erwartet, nämlich wie Hip-Hop die Kunst im Allgemeinen beeinflusst hat - man denke an Basquiat (der ist natürlich im Buch / in der Ausstellung). Die in THE CULTURE vorgestellten Künstler (vor allem schwarze Künstlerinnen) sind mit Werken vertreten, die sich mit Themen befassen, die auch im Hip-Hop zu finden sind (Geschlechtertypen und Stereotypen, Körper, Sexualität, Stil, Selbstdarstellung, Identität, Konsumverhalten, Macht, ...). Der Einfluss von Hip-Hop in der bildenden Kunst scheint insofern begrenzt. Denn anders ist es bei Mode, Style, Street Art, Fotografie, Design, Musik, wo Hip-Hop eine Macht war und immer noch ist - in der Kunst (da hatte ich eine andere Erwartung) scheint es anders zu sein. Hier hatte Hip-Hop bislang noch keinen wirklich mainstreamigen Einfluss. Das ist etwas, was man beklagen kann. Oder thematisieren. ABER: Zurückgeschickt habe ich das Buch in erster Linie, weil es beschädigt ankam. Auch das (sehr schnell) gelieferte Ersatzbuch musste ich zurückschicken, weil es ebenfalls beschädigt ankam. Amazon müsste sich einmal Gedanken zu Verpackungen für Kunstbücher machen. Mit den Standardumschlägen funktioniert das jedenfalls nicht.
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