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Click on the image for a larger view (33K) or here for the largest view (50K). . The Door (Getty ArtsEdNet) David Hammons The Door African American (b. Click on the image for a larger view (33K) or here for the largest view (50K). . |
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At the age of twenty, he moved to Los Angeles and attended the Los Angeles City College for a year. Then he went to Los Angeles Technical College and Otis Art Institute where he studied advertising. While at Otis, Hammons sought out Charles White, a draughtsman and printmaker who Hammons had initially found out about through exhibitions and reproductions and eventually studied privately with him. At that time African Americans studying artists for thirty and forty years was a shock to Hammons and other black artists. 2 In the late 1960s, young artists emerged in the climate of Black Power and Black Cultural Nationalism. |
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At the age of twenty, he moved to Los Angeles and attended the Los Angeles City College for a year. Then he went to Los Angeles Technical College and Otis Art Institute where he studied advertising. While at Otis, Hammons sought out Charles White, a draughtsman and printmaker who Hammons had initially found out about through exhibitions and reproductions and eventually studied privately with him. At that time African Americans studying artists for thirty and forty years was a shock to Hammons and other black artists. 2 In the late 1960s, young artists emerged in the climate of Black Power and Black Cultural Nationalism. |
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. If you would like to purchase this title, we recommend that you occasionally check this page to see if it has become available. Hammons's work avoids the trap of marginality by using an iconography and methodology springing from and presented within his urban African American context. Though he has made plenty of works imbued with art-historical references--works subsequently installed at the Venice Bieniele and at hip galleries--these are his marginalia instead of his crowning crossover accomplishments. Even more surprising than the artist's ability to control the spin of his work is this book's success in conveying Hammons's art in its original environment--which most readers will find alien. |
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