Main entry:

Filipovic, Elena, author.

Title & Author:

David Hammons : Bliz-aard Ball Sale / Elena Filipovic.

Publication:

London : Afterall Books, 2017.
Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press

Description:

1 online resource (157 pages) : illustrations (some color)

Series:

One work

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 141-157).
Part 1. What We Know: The Images ; The Myth -- Part 2. The Evasions of David Hammons: Where He's From ; Making a Stereotype Literal ; Outside ; The Bad Guy ; Exit -- Part 3. Stalking Bliz-aard Ball Sale: A Blizzard ; The Daringness of the Act ; Fugitive Evidence ; Temporary Business Ventures ; The Colour of Money ; As Black as Their Art is White ; Like Dirt to a Snowball ; Black Skin, White Cubes ; Colour Theory ; Ice and Dust and Rumours ; The Last Snowball ; What It Is.

Summary:

"One wintry day in 1983, alongside other street sellers in the East Village, David Hammons peddled snowballs of various sizes. He had neatly laid them out in graduated rows and spent the day acting as obliging salesman. He called the evanescent and unannounced street action 'Bliz-aard Ball Sale', thus inscribing it into a body of work that, from the late 1960s to the present, has used a lexicon of ephemeral actions and self-consciously black materials to comment on the nature of the artwork, the art world, and race in America. And although 'Bliz-aard Ball Sale' has been frequently cited and is increasingly influential, it has long been known only through a mix of eyewitness rumors and a handful of photographs. Its details were as elusive as the artist himself; even its exact date was unrecorded. Like so much of the artist's work, it was conceived, it seems, to slip between our fingers -- to trouble the grasp of the market, as much as of history and knowability. In this study, Elena Filipovic collects a vast oral history of the ephemeral action, uncovering rare images and documents, and giving us singular insight into an artist who made an art of making himself difficult to find."--Provided by publisher

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Front cover
Front cover, high quality
Front cover thumbnail

ISBN:

9781846381898 (electronic bk.)
1846381894 (electronic bk.)
9781846381881 (e-book)
1846381886
9781846381874 (ePub ebook)
1846381878 (ePub ebook)
(pbk.)
9781846381867
184638186X

Subject:

Hammons, David, 1943- Criticism and interpretation.
Hammons, David, 1943- Critique et interprétation.
Hammons, David, 1943-
ART Performance.
ART Reference.

Form/genre:

Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Added entries:

One work.

Bliz-aard Ball Sale
Blizaard Ball Sale