Arthur Jafa: A Series of Utterly Improbable, Yet Extraordinary Renditions
Walther König, 2018. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Serpentine Gallery and Koenig Books, 2018. Hardcover in pictorial cloth boards. First Edition, First Printing. A large, thick, heavy book. 14 x 11 x 3.5 inches. 839 pages with numerous photographic images throughout accompanied by various essays in English. Arthur Jafa (born 1960) has worked as a cinematographer with such legendary directors as Stanley Kubrick and Spike Lee; he has also worked on music videos for well-known artists such as Jay-Z, Beyoncé and Solange Knowles. However, Los Angeles-based Jafa has recently emerged as a powerful artist in his own right. A Series of Utterly Improbable, Yet Extraordinary Renditions presents Jafa's image-based work through the chopping and juxtaposition of found visual sequences covering subjects such as race, conflict, the cosmos and nature. These, in turn, are placed in conversation with texts by authors and artists of such range as Hilton Als, Jean Baudrillard, Amiri Baraka, Judith Butler, Samuel R. Delany, Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, Fred Moten and Cecil Taylor. This mammoth tome stands as a document of an experienced filmmaker breaking through with a powerful, fully formed voice into the fine art world. BOOK CONDITION: Fine; a solid, tight, clean copy. . Fine. Item #11235
ISBN: 9783960981589
Price: $750.00