Barkley L. Hendricks: Birth of the Cool accompanies the first career retrospective of the renowned American artist Barkley L. Hendricks, on view at the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University from February 7, 2008 through July 13, 2008. Hendricks was born in 1945 in Philadelphia. His unique work contains elements of both American realism and postmodernism, occupying a space between the portraitists Chuck Close and Alex Katz and the pioneering black conceptualists David Hammons and Adrian Piper. Hendricks is best known for his life-sized portraits of people of color from the urban northeast. His bold portrayal of his subject's attitude and style elevates the common person to celebrity status. Cool, empowering, and sometimes confrontational, Hendricks' artistic privileging of a culturally complex black body has paved the way for today's younger generation of artists. This richly illustrated book contains 100 color images of paintings created from 1964 to the present. It focuses primarily on the artist's full-figure portraits, as well as lesser known early works and the artist's more recent portal-like landscape paintings.
The catalog includes the most comprehensive bibliography on Hendricks to date, a timeline of the artist's life, and an interview with the artist by Thelma Golden, Director and Chief Curator at the Studio Museum in Harlem. It also includes essays by Barkley L. Hendricks, Duke University art historian Richard J. Powell, exhibition curator Trevor Schoonmaker, and Franklin Sirmans, Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Menil Collection. Publication of the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University
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"One of [Connecticut's] most gifted but least-known artists... Critics and curators have come to regard Mr. Hendricks's portraits as some of the most distinctive in recent art." -- Benjamin Genocchio New York Times
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163 illustrations (incl. 146 in color)
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978-0-938989-31-8 (9780938989318)
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Trevor Schoonmaker is Curator of Contemporary Art at the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University. He is the editor of Street Level: Mark Bradford, William Cordova and Robin Rhode, the catalog of a 2007 exhibition at the Nasher Museum of Art. He is also the editor of Black President: The Art and Legacy of Fela Anikulapo-Kuti, D Troit: The Art, Music, and Culture of the Motor City, and Fela: West Africa to West Broadway.
Director's Foreword / Kimerly Rorschach 8 Curator's Acknowledgments / Trevor Schoonmaker 11 Artist's Acknowledgments / Barkley L. Hendricks 12 Birth of the Cool / Trevor Schoonmaker 14 Barkley L. Hendricks, Anew / Richard J. Powell 38 Conversation with Barkley Hendricks / Thelma Golden 58 Barkley Hendricks: Ordinary People / Franklin Sirmans 78 Palette Scrapings / Barkley L. Hendricks 88 Selected Artist Chronology / Barkley L. Hendricks 116 About the Contributors 128 Exhibition Checklist 130 Selected Bibliography 133 Reproduction Credits 137
