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PUBLISHER
Stephen Friedman Gallery

BOOK FORMAT
Clth, 8.75 x 11.5 in. / 59 pgs / 32 color.

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Pub Date
Out of stock indefinitely

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D.A.P. Exclusive
Catalog: FALL 2014 p. 127   

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ISBN 9780957567481 TRADE
List Price: $40.00 CDN $54.00 GBP £35.00

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Kehinde Wiley: The World Stage Jamaica

Text by Ekow Eshun.

Kehinde Wiley: The World Stage JamaicaThe painting of New York-based Kehinde Wiley (born 1977) fuses portraiture and pattern, situating modern subjects in traditional heroic poses against richly patterned backgrounds. Despite the multitude of layers, the abundance of allusions both traditional and contemporary, the results are conceptually clear and impressive. In the works reproduced in Kehinde Wiley: The World Stage Jamaica, the artist paints young, urban Jamaican men and women in poses appropriated from colonial-era British portraiture, who are placed against and intertwined with backgrounds from British textile designer William Morris. Wiley thus restages history: the race and gender of the colonial hero have been transformed. The dignified, strong pose refers not only to the conventions of the genre, but also to the symbolism of Jamaican culture and its particular ideals of style and beauty. Within a single frame, Wiley combines a traditional mode of portraiture, the ongoing complexities of colonialism and a proud, unique, modern culture--a narrative of contemporary Jamaica. Alongside full-color illustrations and installation images from Wiley's exhibition at the Stephen Friedman Gallery, an extensive essay from leading British-Ghanaian cultural commentator Ekow Eshun explicates the symbolism at play in Wiley's work.

"John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester" (2013) is reproduced from Kehinde Wiley: The World Stage Jamaica.

Kehinde Wiley: The World Stage Jamaica

STATUS: Out of stock indefinitely.

KEHINDE WILEY MONOGRAPHS + ARTIST'S BOOKS

Kehinde Wiley: An Archaeology of Silence

KEHINDE WILEY: AN ARCHAEOLOGY OF SILENCE

DelMonico Books/Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco

ISBN: 9781636810980
USD $50.00
| CAN $70 UK £ 43

Pub Date: 10/17/2023
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Kehinde Wiley: A Portrait of a Young Gentleman

KEHINDE WILEY: A PORTRAIT OF A YOUNG GENTLEMAN

The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens

ISBN: 9781646570201
USD $40.00
| CAN $54 UK £ 32

Pub Date: 3/22/2022
Active | In stock


Kehinde Wiley: The World Stage: Haiti

KEHINDE WILEY: THE WORLD STAGE: HAITI

Roberts & Tilton

ISBN: 9780991488926
USD $40.00
| CAN $54 UK £ 35

Pub Date: 5/26/2015
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Kehinde Wiley: The World Stage: Israel

KEHINDE WILEY: THE WORLD STAGE: ISRAEL

Roberts & Tilton

ISBN: 9781427613752
USD $40.00
| CAN $54 UK £ 35

Pub Date: 3/31/2012
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