Kehinde Wiley : a portrait of a young gentleman

McCurdy, Melinda. Container of (work): Twenty-first-century Blue boy. (Added Author). Gaines, Malik. Container of (work): Overrepresented. (Added Author). Chrisman-Campbell, Kimberly. Container of (work): Van Dyke habit. (Added Author). Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery, (organizer,, host institution.).

Summary: "This book is published in conjunction with the exhibition Kehinde Wiley: a portrait of a young gentleman, organized by the Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens. Malik Gaines investigates the artist's post-modern strategy of inserting Black subjects into canonical European settings. Kimberly Chrisman-Campbell situates Wiley's work within the traditions and trappings of grand manner eighteenth-century portraiture"--

Record details

ISBN: 1646570200
ISBN: 9781646570201
Physical Description: 69 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
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Publisher: San Marino, California : The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, 2022.

Content descriptions

Formatted Contents Note:

Twenty-First-Century Blue Boy / Melinda McCurdy -- Overrepresented : In Which L.A. Blue Boy Visits San Marino, a City Named After a Plantation named after Europe's Oldest Sovereign State, Situated on a Tongva Village / Malik Gaines -- "A Van Dyke Habit" : Dressing Blue Boy / Kimberly Chrisman-Campbell.