
Kitchen Table Series
Carrie Mae Weems(Author)
Damiani (Publisher)
Published on 2. August 2016
Book
Hardback
86 pages
978-88-6208-471-0 (ISBN)
Description
This Collector's Edition includes the book Kitchen Table Series and this print numbered and signed by Carrie Mae Weems: Untitled (Man Reading Newspaper), 1990/1999, Gelatin silver print, 25.2 x 25.2 cm. The photograph has been printed in 2015 in a limited edition of 25 copies plus 5 Artist Proofs.
Kitchen Table Series is the first publication dedicated solely to this early and important body of work by the American artist Carrie Mae Weems. The 20 photographs and 14 text panels that make up Kitchen Table Series tell a story of one woman's life, as conducted in the intimate setting of her kitchen. The kitchen, one of the primary spaces of domesticity and the traditional domain of women, frames her story, revealing to us her relationships-with lovers, children, friends-and her own sense of self, in her varying projections of strength, vulnerability, aloofness, tenderness, and solitude. As Weems describes it, this work of art depicts "the battle around the family ...monogamy ...and between the sexes." Weems herself is the protagonist of the series, though the woman she depicts is an archetype. 'Kitchen Table Series' seeks to reposition and reimagine the possibility of women and the possibility of people of color, and has to do with, in the artist's words "unrequited love."
Kitchen Table Series is the first publication dedicated solely to this early and important body of work by the American artist Carrie Mae Weems. The 20 photographs and 14 text panels that make up Kitchen Table Series tell a story of one woman's life, as conducted in the intimate setting of her kitchen. The kitchen, one of the primary spaces of domesticity and the traditional domain of women, frames her story, revealing to us her relationships-with lovers, children, friends-and her own sense of self, in her varying projections of strength, vulnerability, aloofness, tenderness, and solitude. As Weems describes it, this work of art depicts "the battle around the family ...monogamy ...and between the sexes." Weems herself is the protagonist of the series, though the woman she depicts is an archetype. 'Kitchen Table Series' seeks to reposition and reimagine the possibility of women and the possibility of people of color, and has to do with, in the artist's words "unrequited love."
More details
Edition
Limited Collector's Edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Bologna
Italy
Edition type
Special edition
Illustrations
Illustrated in black and white throughout
Dimensions
Height: 345 mm
Width: 248 mm
Weight
1820 gr
ISBN-13
978-88-6208-471-0 (9788862084710)
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Person
Carrie Mae Weems (born 1953) is considered one of the most in influential contemporary American artists. In a career spanning over 30 years, she has investigated family relationships, cultural identity, sexism, class, political systems, and the consequences of power. Weems's complex body of art employs photographs, text, fabric, audio, digital images, installation, and video. Weems has received numerous awards, grants, and fellowships, including the prestigious MacArthur "Genius" grant. She is represented in public and private collections around the world, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; the Museum of Modern Art, New York; and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles.