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MONOGRAPHS
PROFILED In this conceptually driven photographic project, Gonzales-Day looks to the depiction of race and the construction of whiteness as points of departure from which to consider the evolution and transformation of Enlightenment ideas about freedom, class, gender, and even the location of the soul, in the depiction of the human form, the portrait bust in particular. Profiled begins after these dated ideologies and their aesthetic manifestations have run their course, but the project is as much about the present as it is the past. Cast, carved, burned, and broken, these are the shadows of people that once lived in this world, or in the imaginations of their makers; they are subtle reminders of the kinds of philosophical, metaphysical, spiritual, legal, and scientific claims that once depended upon appearance alone. This project seeks to integrate these motionless—yet multivalent--forms into the complex history of racial formation. Encompassing everything from memorials of emperors and kings to gods and goddesses, Orientalist follies, and racial typologies—together they provide a new perspective on what it means to be profiled in our own time. Click Here to order.
Accounts of lynching in the United States have primarily focused on violence against African Americans in the South. This book reveals racially motivated lynching as a more widespread practice, chronicling over 350 instances of lynching that occurred in the state of California between 1850 and 1935. An artist and writer, Ken Gonzales-Day began this study by photographing
lynch sites in order to document the absences and empty spaces that
are emblematic of the forgotten history of lynching in the West. Drawing
on newspaper articles, periodicals, court records, historical photographs,
and souvenir postcards, he attempted to reconstruct the circumstances
surrounding the lynchings that had occurred in the spaces he was photographing.
The result is an unprecedented textual and visual record of a largely
unacknowledged manifestation of racial violence in the United States.
Including sixteen color illustrations, Lynching in the West juxtaposes
Gonzales-Day's evocative contemporary photographs of lynch sites with
dozens of historical images. Click Here to order. ANTHOLOGIES, BOOKS, EXHIBITION CATALOGS
How Many Billboards? Art In Stead Exhibition catalogue for How Many Billboards? Art In Stead, an urban exhibition that debuted 21 newly commissioned artworks by leading contemporary artists, presented simultaneously on billboards throughout Los Angeles. This 168 page, full-color publication documents and reflects upon the exhibition and its context, and includes contributions by project initiator and MAK Center director Kimberli Meyer; co-curators Lisa Henry, Nizan Shaked, and Gloria Sutton; public art consultant Sara Daleiden; attorney and intellectual property expert Christine Steiner; curator, critic, and director of the Master of Public Art Studies Program: Art/Curatorial Practices in the Public Sphere at USC Joshua Decter; writer, artist and curator Janet Owen-Driggs; and artist and director of Freewaves Anne Bray. Photographs of the artworks in situ by architect Gerard Smulevich and photographer patricia parinejad are featured. The book was edited by C.E.O and Artistic Director of the MAK Vienna, Peter Noever, and Kimberli Meyer; published by Verlag für moderne Kunst Nürnberg; and distributed by D.A.P. Click Here to order.
From Yodeling to Quantum Physics: v. 3
LACMA is pleased to present Ken Gonzales-Day's work in the exhibition Phantom Sightings: Art after the Chicano Movement. Chicano art, traditionally described as work created by Americans of Mexican descent, was established as a politically and culturally inspired movement during the counterculture revolutions of the late 60s and early 70s. The exhibition includes approximately 125 works in all media, including painting, sculpture, installation, conceptual, video, performance art, and intermedia works. Click HERE to order the book of the exhibition Phantom Sightings.
Exile of the Imaginary: Politics Aesthetics Love This collection of art-historic, psychoanalytic and linguistic essays ponders the relationship between post-conceptual art practice and the legacy of Roland Barthes's famed A Lover's Discourse: Fragments--specifically, Barthes's assertion that love can be a critical "medium" in politically turbulent times. With select artworks. Click HERE to order the book of the exhibition Exhile of the Imaginary, presented by the Generali Foundation, Vienna.
Whiteness: A Wayward Construction Whiteness, A Wayward Construction is an exhibition catalogue on the work of twenty-eight contemporary individual artists and collaborative teams employing various media who explore representations of whiteness in the United States. The selection of artists was not restricted to whites but includes artists of various ethnicities. The exhibition was about the image of whiteness in the public imagination and in contemporary art. The publication includes essays by Tyler Stallings, Amelia Jones, David Roediger, and Ken Gonzales-Day.Click HERE to order the book of the exhibition Whiteness: A Wayward Construction, presented by the Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach.
Project Series 30: Hang Trees Project Series 30: Ken Gonzales-Day,is an exhibition catalogue on the work exhibited at the Pomona College Museum of Art. The catalogue includes essays, images, and three removable postcards from the Erased Lynching Series. Click HERE to order.
The Body and The Screen: Theories of Internet Spectatorship Internet and computer users are often represented onscreen as active and empowered—as in AOL's striding yellow figure and the interface hand that appears to manipulate software and hypertext links. In The Body and the Screen Michele White suggests that users can more properly be understood as spectators rendered and regulated by technologies and representations, for whom looking and the mediation of the screen are significant aspects of engagement. Drawing on apparatus and feminist psychoanalytic film theories, art history, gender studies, queer theory, critical race and postcolonial studies, and other theories of cultural production, White conceptualizes Internet and computer spectatorship and provides theoretical models that can be employed in other analyses. She offers case studies and close visual and textual analysis of the construction of spectatorship in different settings. Click HERE to order.
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