Author: Henry TaylorThis volume encompasses the entire four-decade career of LA–based artist Henry Taylor. Uniting around 100 works, including paintings, sculptures and installations, the monograph evinces Taylor’s lifelong dedication to depicting Black American life and the human condition in all its diversity. Taylor interweaves personal experiences, collective memories and reinterpretations of iconic art – notably works by David Hammons, Philip Guston and Pablo Picasso – with kinetic, loose brushwork.In addition to high-quality reproductions, this eponymous monograph features an overarching essay on the artist’s career by curator Joanne Snrech; an interview by Cécile Debray; a critical essay on the representation of American history in the artist’s oeuvre by art historian Elvan Zabunyan; a reprint of a text by curator Laura Hoptman published in 2012 for MoMA; and a chronology by curator François DareauISBN 9782373722451. Éditions Dilecta/Musée Picasso. hb. 224 pages. 120 colour ills. 21 x 27.3 cm.available to order
