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Cauleen Smith: Give It or Leave It

by Cauleen Smith , Rhea Anastas , Rodney McMillian
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Book cover type: Paperback
  • ISBN13: 9780884541462
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Institute of Contemporary Art, University of
  • Publisher Imprint: Institute of Contemporary Art, University of
  • Publication Date:
  • Pages: 82
  • Original Price: USD 30.0
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 454 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Individual Artists / Monographs

A multimedia portrait of four famed utopian sites celebrating a Black, spiritual America

Through films, objects, and installation, Chicago-based filmmaker Cauleen Smith (born 1967) offers an emotional axis by which to navigate four distinct universes: Alice Coltrane and her Sai Anantam ashram; a 1966 photo shoot by Bill Ray at Simon Rodia's Watts Towers in Los Angeles; Noah Purifoy and his desert assemblages in Joshua Tree; and black spiritualist Rebecca Cox Jackson and her Shaker community in 19th-century Philadelphia.

These locations, while not technically utopian societies, embody sites of historical speculation and radical generosity between artist and community. In reimagining a future through this mix, Smith casts a world that is black, feminist, spiritual and unabashedly alive.

This volume, wrapped in a frosted and foil-stamped dust jacket, contains full-color photographs of the multi-room installation and provides further insight into Smith's creative process and myriad influences through two interviews and a manifesto written by the artist.

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