Anthony Downey

Yinka Shonibare

Rachel Kent

Robert Carleton Hobbs

Shonibare employs a wide range of media????????????????????????sculpture, painting, photography, video, and installation pieces????????????????????????to explore matters of race, class, cultural identity, and history. The artist is best-known for his use of a Dutch-wax fabric, which, though labeled as "African," actually originated in Dutch Indonesia and was introduced to Africa by British manufacturers via Dutch colonizers in the nineteenth century. Incorporating the fabric into Victorian dresses, covering sculptures of alien figures with it or stretching it onto canvases, Shonibare uses the fabric as a metaphor to address issues of origin and authenticity. Published as a companion to Shonibare's first retrospective at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia, and the Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York, this survey explores all aspects of Shonibare's work, offering a fully comprehensive portrait of his projects. Whether he is lampooning Victorian propriety or commenting on the latent ambiguities of the term "alien," Shonibare makes art that challenges straightforward interpretations. Essays by Rachel Kent and Robert Hobbs, together with a generous selection of color illustrations explore this talented young artist's work.

Yinka Shonibare MBE

James Siena, 1991-2001

Kara Elizabeth Walker

Slavery! Slavery!

Kara Walker

Amy Myers

The Opera Inside the Atom

David Moos

Frank Thiel

This extensive monograph is the first to feature all of Thiel's important groups of works on this theme. His photographs seem to capture moments in time that refer to a larger narrative context. Simultaneously, he is continually engaged in exploring the relationship of photography to painting and sculpture. Thiel's monumental works are not merely documentation, but picture a city reborn after a tumultuous history.

1995 - 2005

A Berlin decade

Robert Carleton Hobbs

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