Gary Simmons : public enemy / edited by René Morales and Jadine Collingwood ; [contributors, Jadine Collingwood, Thelma Golden, Arthur Jafa, René Morales [and four others]].

Covering 30 years of sculptures, paintings, works on paper, large-scale wall drawings, installations and site-specific works, this book presents the art of Gary Simmons, one of the most respected artists of his generation. Since the late 1980s, Simmons has played a key role in situating questions of...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Authors: Museum of Contemporary Art (Chicago, Ill.) (Host institution, Organizer)
Pérez Art Museum Miami (Host institution, Organizer)
Other Authors: Simmons, Gary, 1964- (Artist)
Collingwood, Jadine, 1985- (Editor, essay contributor.)
Morales, René (Editor)
Golden, Thelma (essay contributor.)
Jafa, Arthur (essay contributor.)
Language:English
Published: Chicago, IL : New York, NY : Museum of Contemporary Art ; DelMonico Books + D.A.P., [2023]
Subjects:
Simmons, Gary, > 1964- > Criticism and interpretation.
Simmons, Gary, > 1964- > Exhibitions.
Simmons, Gary, > 1964-
Exhibition catalogs.
Genre:
Exhibitions.
Exhibition catalogs.
Physical Description:208 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 30 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Directors' foreword
  • Acknowledgments
  • The theater of redemption: History and memory in the work of Gary Simmons / René Morales
  • Sonic bassline: A conversation with Gary Simmons / Thelma Golden
  • 1964 / Jadine Collingwood
  • The ghosts that haunt our ruins / Seph Rodney
  • Slippery ground, sousrealism, and the specter of justice: Gary Simmons's disruptive groundwork / Nicholas Mirzoeff
  • Recapturing memories: A conversation with Gary Simmons / Arthur Jaffa
  • Plates
  • Reflection of a future past: A visual chronology / Jack Schneider
  • Ever forward / Franklin Sirmans
  • Exhibition checklist
  • Biography and selected exhibition history
  • Selected biography
  • Contributors