Accompanying a major exhibition, this book provides a comprehensive look at this MacArthur Fellows award winning artist s ongoing exploration of the African-American experience. Whitfield Lovell: Kin centers on a sumptuously reproduced portfolio of the artist s Kin series, in which images of anonymous African-Americans are paired with found objects evoking their personalities and experiences. Tangible presences that powerfully connect with the viewer, Lovell s works invoke issues of cultural heritage and personal identity as they imaginatively reflect the lives of forgotten...
Accompanying a major exhibition, this book provides a comprehensive look at this MacArthur Fellows award winning artist s ongoing exploration of the A...