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David Hammons : Bliz-aard Ball Sale /

One wintry day in 1983, alongside other street sellers in the East Village, David Hammons peddled snowballs of various sizes. He had neatly laid them out in graduated rows and spent the day acting as obliging salesman. He called the evanescent and unannounced street action 'Bliz-aard Ball Sale&...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Filipovic, Elena (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London : Afterall Books, 2017.
Series:One work.
Subjects:
Hammons, David, > 1943- > Criticism and interpretation.
Hammons, David, > 1943-
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Table of Contents:
  • Machine generated contents note: pt. 1 What We Know
  • The Images
  • The Myth
  • pt. 2 The Evasions of David Hammons
  • Where He's From
  • Making a Stereotype Literal
  • Outside
  • The Bad Guy
  • Exit
  • pt. 3 Stalking Bliz-aard Ball Sale
  • A Blizzard
  • The Daringness of the Act
  • Fugitive Evidence
  • Temporary Business Ventures
  • The Colour of Money
  • As Black as Their Art is White
  • Like Dirt to a Snowball
  • Black Skin, White Cubes
  • Colour Theory
  • Ice and Dust and Rumours
  • The Last Snowball
  • What It Is.