Michael Armitage : the promised land
Michael Armitage: The Promised Land will be the artist's first exhibition in Australia, presenting recent work with a suite of new paintings that reflect on the recent Kenyan elections and the political rallies and dissidence that followed. Sumptuous and explicit in their representation of the...
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Format : | Livre |
Langue : | anglais |
Titre complet : | Michael Armitage : the promised land / edited by Natasha Bullock with essays by Sean O'Toole, Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor and poems by Mukoma Wa Ngugi |
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Sydney :
Museum of Contemporary Art Australia
, 2019 |
Description matérielle : | 1 volume (154 pages) |
Titre conventionnel : | Exposition. Sydney. Museum of Contemporary Art Australia. 2019 |
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Résumé : | Michael Armitage: The Promised Land will be the artist's first exhibition in Australia, presenting recent work with a suite of new paintings that reflect on the recent Kenyan elections and the political rallies and dissidence that followed. Sumptuous and explicit in their representation of the human body, Armitage's paintings reconsider cultural traditions and stereotypes, spinning the exoticising gaze of Western art history into a different direction |
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Notes : | Première publication à l'occasion de l'exposition "Michael Armitage : The Promised Land" Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, du 28 juin au 22 septembre 2019 |
ISBN : | 978-1-925806-03-8 1-925806-03-0 |