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Henry Taylor

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The fascinating life and work of Los Angeles legend Henry Taylor, celebrated painter, is chronicled for the first time in a lush monograph. Henry Taylor’s first major monograph will collect 200 of the painter’s portraits and street scenes; more importantly, it will collect his thoughts. For three decades the iconic artist has worked his way through New York, Los Angeles, and more recently Africa, on a dizzying quest to document what he sees. In his circle are artists, musicians, writers, and performers from Skrillex to friends from his ten years as a psychiatric technician. It is the artist’s roving and empathetic eye that allows him to imagine his figures with grace–not better than they are, or more glamorous–but part of a big good world. Flat, brushy flows of colour rough in figures that often float in surreal landscapes abstracted from the barbeque in the park, or neighbouring street.

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Dimensions 254 × 305 mm
Author

Rachel Kaadzi Ghansah

Author Bio

Rachel Kaadzi Ghansah is an essayist and critic whose writing has appeared in the Paris Review, New York Times Magazine, New York Observer, Bookforum, and Rolling Stone. Ghansah has drawn particular recognition for her longform profiles of subjects like Kendrick Lamar and Toni Morrison. In 2014, Ghansah's profile in The Believer of elusive comedian Dave Chappelle was a National Magazine Award finalist and collected in The Best American Nonrequired Reading. (Hometown: Philadelphia; Residence: NYC)

Zadie Smith FRSL is an English novelist, essayist, and short-story writer. She was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2002. In a 2004 BBC poll of cultural researchers, Smith was named among the top twenty most influential people in British culture. In 2003 and 2013, she was included on Granta's list of 20 best young authors. Smith has won the Orange Prize for Fiction, the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award, and her novel White Teeth was included in Time magazine's list of the 100 best English-language novels from 1923 to 2005. Her most recent book is Swing Time, published in 2016.

Charles Gaines is highly regarded as both a leading practitioner of conceptualism and an influential educator at the California Institute of the Arts. Since his work first came to international attention at the Whitney Biennial in 1975, Gaines's work has been exhibited internationally, including Museum of Contemporary Art, L.A., the Hammer Museum, The Studio Museum in Harlem, and the 56th Venice Biennale. Currently represented by Paula Cooper Gallery, NY, he has received an NEA grant and Guggenheim Fellowship. Gaines has written for art journals and catalogues, including Kerry James Marshall (Phaidon Press, 2017).

Hilton Als is an American writer and theatre critic. He is an associate professor of writing at Columbia University and a staff writer and theatre critic for The New Yorker magazine.

ISBN

9780847863105

Number of Pages

272

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