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David Hammons : Bliz-aard Ball Sale / Elena Filipovic.
Author
Filipovic, Elena
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Format
Book
Language
English
Published/Created
London : Afterall Books, 2017.
Cambridge, MA : The MIT Press
©2017
Description
157 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 21 cm.
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Marquand Library - Remote Storage (ReCAP): Marquand Library Use Only
N6537.H313 F55 2017
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Hammons, David 1943-
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Criticism and interpretation
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Summary note
One wintry day in 1983, alongside other street sellers in the East Village, David Hammons peddled snowballs of various sizes. He had neatly laid them out in graduated rows and spent the day acting as obliging salesman. He called the evanescent and unannounced street action 'Bliz-aard Ball Sale', thus inscribing it into a body of work that, from the late 1960s to the present, has used a lexicon of ephemeral actions and self-consciously black materials to comment on the nature of the artwork, the art world, and race in America. And although 'Bliz-aard Ball Sale' has been frequently cited and is increasingly influential, it has long been known only through a mix of eyewitness rumors and a handful of photographs. Its details were as elusive as the artist himself; even its exact date was unrecorded. Like so much of the artist's work, it was conceived, it seems, to slip between our fingers -- to trouble the grasp of the market, as much as of history and knowability.0In this study, Elena Filipovic collects a vast oral history of the ephemeral action, uncovering rare images and documents, and giving us singular insight into an artist who made an art of making himself difficult to find.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references (pages 141-157).
Contents
Machine generated contents note: pt. 1 What We Know
The Images
The Myth
pt. 2 The Evasions of David Hammons
Where He's From
Making a Stereotype Literal
Outside
The Bad Guy
Exit
pt. 3 Stalking Bliz-aard Ball Sale
A Blizzard
The Daringness of the Act
Fugitive Evidence
Temporary Business Ventures
The Colour of Money
As Black as Their Art is White
Like Dirt to a Snowball
Black Skin, White Cubes
Colour Theory
Ice and Dust and Rumours
The Last Snowball
What It Is.
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Bliz-aard Ball Sale
Blizaard Ball Sale
ISBN
9781846381867 (pbk.)
184638186X (pbk.)
LCCN
2017446897
OCLC
978286351
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