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Howardena Pindell: Reclaiming Abstraction

Howardena Pindell: Reclaiming Abstraction

Cowan, Sarah Louise

Hardcover

Art HistoryAmerican Art - African American & BlackIndividual Artists

Publisher Price: $60.00

ISBN10: 0300264291
ISBN13: 9780300264296
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: Nov 29 2022
Pages: 280
Weight: 2.92
Height: 1.07 Width: 8.32 Depth: 10.29
Language: English
Exploring the art and life of this important American artist whose work bridged the gaps between abstraction, feminism, and Blackness

A deeply informative, inventive monograph that adroitly traces Pindell's multi-media practice, the intermingling evolution of her aesthetic and political positions, and the critical context in which her work was received and evaluated.--Blake Oetting, caa.reviews

Howardena Pindell: Reclaiming Abstraction is a fascinating examination of the multifaceted career of artist, activist, curator, and writer Howardena Pindell (b. 1943). It offers a fresh perspective on her abstract practice from the late 1960s through the early 1980s--a period in which debates about Black Power, feminism, and modernist abstraction intersected in uniquely contentious yet generative ways. Sarah Louise Cowan not only asserts Pindell's rightful place within the canon but also recenters dominant historical narratives to reveal the profound and overlooked roles that Black women artists have played in shaping modernist abstraction. Pindell's career acts as a springboard for a broader study of how artists have responded during periods of heightened social activism and used abstraction to convey political urgency. With works that drew on Ghanaian textiles, administrative labor, cosmetics, and postminimalism, Pindell deployed abstraction in deeply personal ways that resonated with collective African diasporic and women's practices. In her groundbreaking analysis, Cowan argues that such work advanced Black feminist modernisms, diverse creative practices that unsettle racist and sexist logics.

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