Young, Gifted and Black: A New Generation of Artists: The Lumpkin-Boccuzzi Family Collection of Contemporary Art
Description
What's new, now and next from contemporary Black artists
A New York Times 2020 holiday gift guide pick
This book surveys the work of a new generation of Black artists, and also features the voices of a diverse group of curators who are on the cutting edge of contemporary art. As mission-driven collectors, Bernard I. Lumpkin and Carmine D. Boccuzzi have championed emerging artists of African descent through museum loans and institutional support. But there has never been an opportunity to consider their acclaimed collection as a whole until now. Edited by writer Antwaun Sargent (author of The New Black Vanguard: Photography Between Art and Fashion), Young, Gifted and Black draws from this collection to shed new light on works by contemporary artists of African descent. At a moment when debates about the politics of visibility within the art world have taken on renewed urgency, and establishment voices such as the New York Times are declaring that "it has become undeniable that African American artists are making much of the best American art today," Young, Gifted and Black takes stock of how these new voices are impacting the way we think about identity, politics and art history itself. Young, Gifted and Black contextualizes artworks with contributions from artists, curators and other experts. It features a wide-ranging interview with Bernard Lumpkin and Thelma Golden, director and chief curator of the Studio Museum in Harlem; and an in-depth essay by Antwaun Sargent situating Lumpkin in a long lineage of Black art patrons. A landmark publication, this book illustrates what it means (in the words of Nina Simone) to be young, gifted and Black in contemporary art. Artists include: Mark Bradford, David Hammons, Glenn Ligon, Kerry James Marshall, Julie Mehretu, Adam Pendleton, Pope.L, LaToya Ruby Frazier, Henry Taylor, Mickalene Thomas, Lynette Yiadom-Boakye, Tunji Adeniyi-Jones, Sadie Barnette, Kevin Beasley, Jordan Casteel, Jonathan Lyndon Chase, Bethany Collins, Noah Davis, Cy Gavin, Allison Janae Hamilton, Tomashi Jackson, Samuel Levi Jones, Deana Lawson, Norman Lewis, Eric N. Mack, Arcmanoro Niles, Jennifer Packer, Christina Quarles, Jacolby Satterwhite, Paul Mpagi Sepuya, Sable Elyse Smith, Chanel Thomas, Stacy Lynn Waddell, D'Angelo Lovell Williams, Brenna Youngblood, and more.Product Details
Price
$49.95
$46.45
Publisher
D.A.P./Lumpkin-Boccuzzi Family Collection
Publish Date
September 22, 2020
Pages
256
Dimensions
9.5 X 11.2 X 1.2 inches | 4.02 pounds
Language
English
Type
Hardcover
EAN/UPC
9781942884590
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About the Author
My name is Jessica Brown and I am studying Secondary Education. Writing is something I've always enjoyed as a hobby as it helps put my jumbled thoughts into words and allows me to use my voice. By disgust of how normalised sexual assualt is in Australia, I decided to write poems of my own and others experience to raise awareness of the issue.
Connie H. Choi (Author) is Assistant Curator, American Art, Brooklyn Museum, where she has contributed to the catalogues Witness: Art and Civil Rights in the Sixties (2014) and John Singer Sargent Watercolors (2013). Her interests include African American artists, the history of photography, modern art, and the intersections between race, history, and culture. She is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Art History and Archaeology at Columbia University, New York. She received an Ed.M. from Harvard University in 2007 and has contributed research and text to several museum and university publications, including the catalogue for Now Dig This!: Art and Black Los Angeles, 1960‒1980 (Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, 2011).
The author has practised as a barrister, QC, judge and Law Professor over a career spanning 50 years. He is also a musician and songwriter. He is the Jazzer in the Rocker & Jazzer band that has recorded a number of albums and he has co-written numerous songs that have been covered in the USA and Europe. He has written a number of published text books and his fiction, REFLECTIONS OF TINY VICTORIES, JERRY O and MONKEY MAN are available in print or as EBooks.
Antwaun Sargent is a director and curator at Gagosian. His writing has appeared in The New York Times, The New Yorker, and The New York Review of Books, among other publications, and he has contributed essays to museum and gallery catalogues. Sargent has co-organized exhibitions including Social Works at Gagosian in New York (2021) and The Way We Live Now at the Aperture Foundation in New York (2018). His first book, The New Black Vanguard: Photography between Art and Fashion, was released by Aperture in 2019.
Reviews
Collectors Bernard I. Lumpkin and Carmine D. Boccuzzi have championed emerging artists of African descent through acquisitions, museum loans, and institutional support. This lavishly illustrated volume showcases their mission-driven collection and contextualizes works by more than 30 artists.--Victoria Valentine "Culture Type"
There's a renaissance of sorts happening in the contemporary art world right now, in which artists of African descent, particularly emerging artists, are enjoying unprecedented influence and visibility--Emily Dinsdale "Dazed"
With early works by renowned artists like Kara Walker and Mickalene Thomas presented alongside more recent creations from emerging artists like Sable Elyse Smith and Arcmanoro Niles, the show creates a dialogue with itself. Taken together, one gets a survey of the ways in which two subsequent generations of black artists are exploring everything from language and social abstraction to landscapes and the colour black.--Wilbert L. Cooper "i-D"
an impressive collection of African-American art, with works by both emerging and well-known artists--Sarah Cascone "Artnet"
Young, Gifted and Black' elaborates a kind of laundry list of luminaries [...] a roll call of two generations of Black artists who are preeminent across a range of media.--Seph Rodney "Hyperallergic"
a symphony of voices and visions from across generations all around the globe, creating a mellifluous confluence of style, media, and subject matter.--Sara Rosen "Document Journal"
For Bernard Lumpkin, collecting art has always been about family.--Victoria Valentine "Artsy"
There's a renaissance of sorts happening in the contemporary art world right now, in which artists of African descent, particularly emerging artists, are enjoying unprecedented influence and visibility--Emily Dinsdale "Dazed"
With early works by renowned artists like Kara Walker and Mickalene Thomas presented alongside more recent creations from emerging artists like Sable Elyse Smith and Arcmanoro Niles, the show creates a dialogue with itself. Taken together, one gets a survey of the ways in which two subsequent generations of black artists are exploring everything from language and social abstraction to landscapes and the colour black.--Wilbert L. Cooper "i-D"
an impressive collection of African-American art, with works by both emerging and well-known artists--Sarah Cascone "Artnet"
Young, Gifted and Black' elaborates a kind of laundry list of luminaries [...] a roll call of two generations of Black artists who are preeminent across a range of media.--Seph Rodney "Hyperallergic"
a symphony of voices and visions from across generations all around the globe, creating a mellifluous confluence of style, media, and subject matter.--Sara Rosen "Document Journal"
For Bernard Lumpkin, collecting art has always been about family.--Victoria Valentine "Artsy"
