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Wangechi Mutu : I am speaking, are you listening? / Claudia Schmuckli with Isaac Julien and Wangechi Mutu.

By: Schmuckli, Claudia [author, curator, interviewer].
Contributor(s): Wangechi Mutu [author, artist, interviewee] | Julien, Isaac [interviewer] | Legion of Honor (San Francisco, Calif.) [host institution].
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: San Francisco : Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, Copublished with DelMonico Books DAP, [2021]Copyright date: ©2021Description: 159 pages, 9 unnumbered pages : colour illustrations ; 28 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781636810058 (hardback).Subject(s): Wangechi Mutu -- Exhibitions | Women, Black, in art -- 21st century -- Exhibitions | Collage -- Kenya -- 21st century | Art, Kenyan | Women artists, Black -- Kenya -- 21st centuryDDC classification: 709.2 WAN
Contents:
Foreword / Thomas P. Campbell -- Art as a "weapon of mass construction" / Claudia Schmuckli -- Making histories / Wangechi Mutu in conversation with Isaac Julien and Claudia Schmuckli -- I am speaking / Wangechi Mutu -- Gallery -- Checklist of the exhibition
Summary: "Over the past two decades, Wangechi Mutu has created chimerical constellations of powerful female characters, hybrid beings, and fantastical landscapes. With a rare understanding of the need for powerful new mythologies beyond simple binaries and stereotypes, Mutu breaches common distinctions between human, animal, plant, and machine. At once seductive and threatening, her figures and environments take the viewer on journeys of material, psychological, and socio-political transformation. An artist who calls both Nairobi and New York City home, she moves voraciously between cultural traditions to challenge colonialist, racist, and sexist world views with her visionary projection of an alternate universe informed by Afrofuturism, Posthumanism, and Feminism. This presentation of Mutu's work-mounted at the Legion of Honor, a museum designed in the neoclassical style and built to showcase European art from antiquity through Impressionism-merges the histories, conventions, and traditions of her African origins and her Western education. The dazzling catalogue that will accompany this presentation will showcase Mutu's new work on view at the Legion, along with a greater selection from her oeuvre as it has grown in the time since her groundbreaking exhibition at the Nasher Museum of Art in 2013" - publisher's description.
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number Status Date due Barcode
General lending MTU Crawford College of Art and Design Library Lending 709.2 WAN (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Checked out 25/09/2026 00231504
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Between Afrofuturism, fantasy and postcolonialism: the most comprehensive monograph to date on the fantastical worlds of Wangechi Mutu

Published with Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco.

Wangechi Mutu takes viewers on journeys of material, psychological and sociopolitical transformation; this volume explores her most recent groundbreaking work. Over the past two decades, Mutu has created chimerical constellations of powerful female characters, hybrid beings and fantastical landscapes. With a rare understanding of the need for powerful new mythologies beyond simple binaries and stereotypes, Mutu breaches common distinctions between human, animal, plant and machine.
An artist who calls both Nairobi and New York City home, Mutu moves voraciously between cultural traditions to challenge colonialist, racist and sexist worldviews with her visionary projection of an alternate universe informed by Afrofuturism, posthumanism and feminism.
This dazzling book accompanies a presentation of Mutu's new work on view at the Legion, along with a greater selection from her landmark oeuvre. It is the most comprehensive book on the artist to date.

Published on the occasion of the exhibition Wangechi Mutu: I am speaking, are you listening? at the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, May 7-November 7, 2021.

Includes bibliographical references.

Foreword / Thomas P. Campbell -- Art as a "weapon of mass construction" / Claudia Schmuckli -- Making histories / Wangechi Mutu in conversation with Isaac Julien and Claudia Schmuckli -- I am speaking / Wangechi Mutu -- Gallery -- Checklist of the exhibition

"Over the past two decades, Wangechi Mutu has created chimerical constellations of powerful female characters, hybrid beings, and fantastical landscapes. With a rare understanding of the need for powerful new mythologies beyond simple binaries and stereotypes, Mutu breaches common distinctions between human, animal, plant, and machine. At once seductive and threatening, her figures and environments take the viewer on journeys of material, psychological, and socio-political transformation. An artist who calls both Nairobi and New York City home, she moves voraciously between cultural traditions to challenge colonialist, racist, and sexist world views with her visionary projection of an alternate universe informed by Afrofuturism, Posthumanism, and Feminism. This presentation of Mutu's work-mounted at the Legion of Honor, a museum designed in the neoclassical style and built to showcase European art from antiquity through Impressionism-merges the histories, conventions, and traditions of her African origins and her Western education. The dazzling catalogue that will accompany this presentation will showcase Mutu's new work on view at the Legion, along with a greater selection from her oeuvre as it has grown in the time since her groundbreaking exhibition at the Nasher Museum of Art in 2013" - publisher's description.