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Museum of Contemporary Art (Chicago, Ill.)
254 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), portraits ; 31 cm
"From his early self-portraits to his site-specific installations, this volume underscores Rashid Johnson's fearless engagement with the central themes, questions, and aesthetics of the contemporary era. Co-organized by the Guggenheim New York and the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, A Poem for Deep Thinkers is a three-decade survey of Rashid Johnson's artistic career. It situates the artist within three interconnected spheres: as a scholar of art history; as a mediator of Black popular culture and its widespread commodification; and as an artist engaged with the globalization of contemporary art. The exhibition and accompanying catalogue feature nearly 90 artworks, including early photographs, Cosmic Slops, spray-painted text works, collage paintings, Broken Men mosaics, film projects, and key sculptures and installations that incorporate materials such as shea butter, black soap, plants, ceramic vessels, and wax. These explorations demonstrate Johnson's uncommon fluency with multiple materials and forms as well as a nuanced ability to synthesize the condition of the human psyche." --
Introduction -- Many gods / Andrea karnes with Julian Myers-Szupinska -- Preface to a twenty volume suicide note / LeROI-Jones -- The Blackstone rangers / Gwendolyn Brooks -- A (w)hole in the shape of me / Naomi Beckwith -- The white boy shuffle / Paul Beatty -- Freed and caught in looking / Kevin Quashie -- The blacks: a clown show / Jean Genet -- The bluest eye / Toni Morrison -- Death takes the piss... / Tiona Nikkia McClodden -- Rashid Johnson's Elegies of Life / Nana Adusei-Poku -- G O D / Hendrik Folkerts -- Conversation with Rashid Johnson / Odili Donald Odita.
edited by Naomi Beckwith and Andrea Karnes ; with contributions by Nana Adusei-Poku [and six others].
Published on the occasion of the exhibition held at Guggenheim New York, April 18, 2025 - January 18, 2026 ; Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, March 8 - October 4, 2026 ; Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, November 7, 2026 - April 25, 2027.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-251).