
Jamal Cyrus: The End of My Beginning
Jamal Cyrus(Artist)
Inventory Press LLC
Published on 2. June 2022
Book
Hardback
136 pages
978-1-941753-44-6 (ISBN)
Description
Transnational cultural hybrids of the Afro-Atlantic
The first full-length monograph of Houston-based visual artist Jamal Cyrus (born 1973), this publication features an overview of Cyrus' practice of cobbling modern artifacts that trace the evolution of Black identity as it migrates across the African Diaspora, Middle Passage, jazz age and civil rights movements from the 1960s to now.
Published to accompany Cyrus' first career survey exhibition at the Blaffer Art Museum, the catalog includes materially diverse and conceptually charged textile-based pieces, assemblages, performances, installations, paintings and works on paper produced in the past two decades, including his ongoing Pride Records installation series.
Together, these multidisciplinary artworks demonstrate Cyrus' commemoration, translation and reactivation of sociopolitical struggles in African American history-forging a revised chronicle of histories, hybridity and redemption.
The first full-length monograph of Houston-based visual artist Jamal Cyrus (born 1973), this publication features an overview of Cyrus' practice of cobbling modern artifacts that trace the evolution of Black identity as it migrates across the African Diaspora, Middle Passage, jazz age and civil rights movements from the 1960s to now.
Published to accompany Cyrus' first career survey exhibition at the Blaffer Art Museum, the catalog includes materially diverse and conceptually charged textile-based pieces, assemblages, performances, installations, paintings and works on paper produced in the past two decades, including his ongoing Pride Records installation series.
Together, these multidisciplinary artworks demonstrate Cyrus' commemoration, translation and reactivation of sociopolitical struggles in African American history-forging a revised chronicle of histories, hybridity and redemption.
Reviews / Votes
This work sheds light on Cyrus's process, which often takes viewers on an associative journey across time. -- Wendy Vogel * Bookforum *More details
Language
English
Place of publication
NY
United States
Illustrations
50 Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 268 mm
Width: 214 mm
Thickness: 18 mm
Weight
896 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-941753-44-6 (9781941753446)
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Schweitzer Classification
Persons
Artist
Text by
Interviewer
Foreword