Rashid Johnson : blocks.

Rashid Johnson : blocks.

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Johnson, Rashid, 1977- artist, interviewee.
Imprint:	Berlin : Hauser & Wirth, in collaboration with Distanz, [2016] ©2016
Description:	68 pages : color illustrations ; 28 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	Johnson, Rashid, -- 1977- -- Exhibitions. Johnson, Rashid, -- 1977- -- Interviews. Johnson, Rashid, -- 1977- Site-specific installations (Art) -- New York (State) -- New York -- Exhibitions. Installations (Art) -- New York (State) -- New York -- Exhibitions. Outdoor art -- New York (State) -- New York -- Exhibitions. African American art -- New York (State) -- New York -- Exhibitions. Public art -- New York (State) -- New York -- Exhibitions. Public sculpture. Art metal-work. Public sculpture. Installations (Art) Art metal-work. African American art. Outdoor art. High Line (New York, N.Y. : Park) -- Exhibitions. New York (State) -- New York. New York (State) -- New York -- High Line (Park) Interviews. Exhibition catalogs. Exhibition catalogs. Interviews.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12526440

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Varying Form of Title:	Blocks
Other authors / contributors:	Alemani, Cecilia, interviewer. Galerie Hauser & Wirth, publisher. Friends of the High Line.
ISBN:	9783954761685 3954761688
Provenance:	Book has special paperback binding with only one side fixed to the book (spine not attached).
Notes:	"High Line Art, presented by Friends of the High Line"--Colophon.
Summary:	The High Line is a 1.45-mile stretch of disused elevated freight tracks on Manhattan's West Side that was converted into a park between 2006 and 2014. In 2015, the American artist Rashid Johnson (b. Chicago, Ill., 1977; lives and works in New York, N.Y.) installed a publicly accessible sculpture on the tracks. Commissioned by the High Line Art program, it consisted of a shelf-like black metal construction that housed a number of bright yellow busts. Blocks presents comprehensive photographic documentation of the eponymous work's evolving interaction with the lush vegetation into which it intervened. Over the course of the full year for which the sculpture stood on the site, plants of different species grew through its grid structure, lending it a forever changing aspect as the seasons passed. The pictures illustrate the poetic quality of the time-limited relationship between a man-made construction and nature, touching on themes such as optimism, failure, regeneration, and desolation. A conversation between Cecilia Alemani, chief curator of High Line Art, and Rashid Johnson sheds light on the genesis of Blocks and the artist's approach to making work for public settings.

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Call Number:	N6537.J627 A4 2016
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