Art Book- Radcliffe Bailey: Memory as Medicine, 2011 by Carol Thompson

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This book offers the first mid-career survey of work by emerging American artist, Radcliffe Bailey. Ceaseless experimentation is the driving … Read more This book offers the first mid-career survey of work by emerging American artist, Radcliffe Bailey. Ceaseless experimentation is the driving force behind Radcliffe Bailey's extraordinarily diverse body of work. In the past decade alone he has created sculptures, paintings, installations, and works on paper, incorporating everything from coffee to glass to sheet music to tobacco leaves. This volume features more than 70 works, many of which have never been published before, and considers Bailey's work in a major essay and four shorter discussions. In these large- and small-scale pieces Bailey explores ideas of ancestry, race, memory, struggle, and sacrifice, including the artist's own engagement with African sculpture in connection with an investigation into his family's DNA., The author, Carol Thompson, is the Fred and Rita Richman Curator of African Art at the High Museum of Art. Hardcover, 160pp See less