Through personal essays
and artists - by pairing fifty participants from the original exhibition with fifty contemporary artists representing the next generation of practitioners to use - and upend - the traditional methods and materials of craft to create new forms of art
Since our very first moments on Earth
and Fusilloni with zucchini
Including 300 color illustrations
Wangechi Mutu Edition:Standard Edition Through personal essaysThe first monograph on the work of celebrated and influential Kenyan American artist Wangechi Mutu Wangechi Mutu's remarkable body of work touches on such issues as sexuality, ecology, politics, and the rhythms and chaos that govern the world. Her paintings, sculptures, and collages, often enriched with culturally charged materials including tea, synthetic hair, Kenyan soil, feathers, and sand, interweave fact with fiction, generating a unique form of