Senga Nengudi - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1944379029 ISBN 13: 9781944379025

Publisher: Dominique Lévy, 2016

Synopsis

In the 1970s, Colorado-based artist Senga Nengudi (born 1943) worked in Los Angeles as part of an emerging community of African American artists that engaged with multiple radical political movements underway in the US and around the globe, including the Black Power and feminist movements. Using quotidian materials to create installations, sculptures, performances and videos, these artists were key participants in the emergence of a postminimal aesthetic. This volume features Nengudi’s recent nylon mesh pantyhose and sand sculptures that respond directly to her performative, biomorphic series Répondez s’il vous plaît (RSVP) (1975–77). Engaging in a dialogue with both postminimalism and second-wave feminism, the stretched, twisted and knotted fabric of the RSVP works and more recent Reverie sculptures recall contorted flesh. Nengudi’s corporeal sculptures, which often suggest genitalia and breasts, take on feminist associations as “part-objects” (to use psychoanalyst Melanie Klein’s term) in the absence of adjoining bodies.

About this title

About the Author

Jessica Brown is Chair in Philosophy at the University of St. Andrews, Scotland.

Edition details

• Publisher: Dominique Lévy
• Publication date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1944379029
• ISBN 13: 9781944379025
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 92
• Editor: Yasar Begum