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Subject(s)

• Smokehouse Associates [Browse]
• Williams, William T. (William Thomas) 1942-—Interviews [Browse]
• Edwards, Melvin 1937-—Interviews [Browse]
• Ciarcia, Guy—Interviews [Browse]
• Community arts projects—New York (State)—New York—History—20th century [Browse]
• Artists and community—New York (State)—New York—History—20th century [Browse]

Editor

• Booker, Eric [Browse]

Contributor

• Booker, Eric [Browse]
• Davis, Charles L., II [Browse]
• Trainor, James [Browse]

• Booker, Eric [Browse]
• Booker, Eric [Browse]
• Davis, Charles L., II [Browse]
• Trainor, James [Browse]
• James, Ashley (Ashley Nicole) [Browse]
• Studio Museum in Harlem [Browse]

Interviewer

• James, Ashley (Ashley Nicole) [Browse]

Issuing body

• Studio Museum in Harlem [Browse]

Summary note

Between 1968 and 1970, the artist collective Smokehouse Associates transformed Harlem with vibrant, community-oriented abstract murals and sculptures. Established by William T. Williams and including Melvin Edwards, Guy Ciarcia, and Billy Rose, Smokehouse grew to encompass a range of creative practitioners united around the revolutionary potential of public art. Though relatively unknown today, Smokehouse was ambitious in its scale, community engagement, and interaction with the built environment. Published over fifty years after the collective's founding, Smokehouse Associates offers the first critical examination of the group's work. Eric Booker provides a historical overview of the collective; Charles Davis II and James Trainor delve into contextual histories of public art, urban design, and architecture; and an artist roundtable moderated by Ashley James presents critical reflections. With previously unpublished images and ephemera and a rich chronology, Smokehouse Associates serves as a sourcebook that expands the narrative of public art and social practice in the United States to include the contributions of artists of African descent.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

• Director's foreword / Thelma Golden
• Acknowledgments / Eric Booker
• Smokehouse: abstract potential / Eric Booker
• Archival reproductions
• The social life of abstraction / Charles L. David II
• Summers of Smokehouse / James Trainor
• Photographic documentation
• In conversation: William T. Williams, Melvin Edwards, and Guy Ciarcia / Ashley James
• Chronology 1962-78
• Unrealized works
• Photo index.

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ISBN

• 9780300267204 ((hardcover))
• 0300267207 ((hardcover))

LCCN

2022943131

OCLC

1309868119

Other standard number

• 99993608804

RCP

C - S

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