Barbara Chase-Riboud : the Malcolm X steles
Barbara Chase-Riboud (Artist, Author), Carlos Basualdo (Editor, Author), Timothy Rub (Director), Gwendolyn DuBois Shaw, Ellen Handler Spitz, John Vick, Philadelphia Museum of Art (Host institution), University Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (Host institution)
Born in Philadelphia and living and working between Paris and Rome, Barbara Chase-Riboud is an internationally celebrated visual artist, novelist and poet. This important publication focuses on her monumental series of sculptures dedicated to the assassinated civil rights leader Malcolm X. Begun in 1969, Chase-Riboud's series is explored in terms of developing artistic practice; her travels to China and North Africa; and her experiences in Europe, particularly during the cultural, political and social upheavals of the 1960s. The volume also includes a fascinating analysis of the Malcom X sculptures in light of critical debates on abstract art's role in memorialising the past. This book presents an illustrated checklist of the 13 sculptures in the series, related drawings and sculptures, and a chronology of Chase-Riboud's life and career
Print Book, English, 2013
Philadelphia Museum of Art in association with Yale University Press, Philadelphia, PA, 2013