10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «OFILI»
Discover the use of
Ofili in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
Ofili and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
An outstanding artist whose work garners attention worldwide, Ofili was closely involved with the preparation of this volume.
Chris Ofili, Judith Nesbitt, Okwui Enwezor, 2010
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African Cultures, Visual Arts, and the Museum: Sights/sites ...
6 Ofili expresses the need to negotiate these preconceptions which affect the way
in which his art is viewed. It is my claim that as a response to such expectations
from a significant section of Ofili's audience, he employs the strategies of irony ...
3
High Art Lite: British Art in the 1990s
Martin Maloney, for instance, sees Ofili as pioneering a move away from a 'hands
-off cool school' that had dominated abstract painting in Britain. Maloney
marshals a rich cluster of art-historical references to bolster Ofili's claim to be a
great ...
Earlier we made mention of Chris Ofili, another British painter of African descent,
who has gained even greater visibility than Shonibare within the British
mainstream. In the mid-1990s Ofili quickly rose to fame by making dot paintings
prodded ...
5
Gardner's Art through the Ages: The Western Perspective
CHRIS OFILI Another contemporary artist who has explored his ethnic and racial
heritage in his art is Chris Ofili (b. 1968). One theme Ofili has treated is religion,
interpreted through the eyes of a British-born Catholic of Nigerian descent. Ofili's
...
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Colored White: Transcending the Racial Past
When I later saw a larger, full-color reproduction in the catalog from Ofili's major
exhibition in Great Britain, the mystery of the dung was solved. The Virgin's bare
breast was made of the stuff, shaped and processed to a sheen. 3 The painting ...
7
Art in Context: Understanding Aesthetic Value
Recently, the work of Chris Ofili, as I mention in chapter 2, was at the center of a
major controversy surrounding a Brooklyn Art Museum exhibition. Ofili created an
eight-by-six-foot painting called The Holy Virgin Mary. The depiction of Mary is ...
8
Chris
Ofili: Afro Margin
Published on the occasion of Chris Ofili's exhibition at David Zwirner in New York, this limited-edition catalogue documents a new body of work titled Afro Margin, and is produced in an edition of 500 copies numbered and signed by the ...
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Art, Culture, & Education: Artful Teaching in a Fractured ...
While there are profound exceptions to this breakdown, many Christian Africans
argued that Africans have no special penchant for dung and that Ofili's work
cheapened African-based art. Individuals with traditional African religious
viewpoints ...
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The Bodies That Were Not Ours: And Other Writings
And Other Writings Coco Fusco. CAPTAIN SHIT AND OTHER ALLEGORIES OF
BLACK STARDOM The Work of Chris Ofili 1999 Word got to me long before I
made it to London last fall that Chris Ofili's enfant terrible-style and affection for
the ...
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «OFILI»
Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term
Ofili is used in the context of the following news items.
Diamond League-Sainsbury's Anniversary Games Results
6, Cindy Ofili, Britain, 12.90. Serita Solomon, Britain, DNF. Lolo Jones, United States, DQ. 400 Hurdles_1, Zuzana Hejnova, Czech Republic, ... «San Francisco Chronicle, Jul 15»
What is African art?
Or megastars such as the Turner Prize-winning Chris Ofili, whose parents were Nigerian but who grew up in Manchester, was counted among ... «Financial Times, Jul 15»
Anniversary Games: Sisters face up to biggest hurdle - beating each …
When Cindy Ofili took up the hurdles, her older sister Tiffany Porter advised her to stick to volleyball. It was a comment without any sororal ... «The Independent, Jul 15»
Mo Farah says he has put Salazar issue to one side before …
... this year; the 2008 Olympic champion Dawn Harper-Nelson, who recently won the US trials; Britain's Tiffany Porter and her sister Cindy Ofili. «The Guardian, Jul 15»
Michigan, Six Individuals Earn USTFCCCA All-Academic Recognition
Erin Finn and Cindy Ofili are also repeat performers, having earned the recognition in 2014. Including the Scholar Athletes of the Year, a total of ... «MGoBlue, Jul 15»
The Terrorists' Veto
But in May, the Times blithely ran a story on Chris Ofili's painting The Holy Virgin Mary, “which caused a furor when it was shown at the ... «The Weekly Standard, Jul 15»
Conservatives Do Not Like Artist's Pornographic Mandalas, No One …
You know, like Andres Serrano's "Piss Christ" or Chris Ofili's "The Holy Virgin Mary." The latest artist to ruffle feathers with her cocktail of the ... «Huffington Post, Jul 15»
Letter: Disgusted by Aspen Art Museum exhibit
The work by Chris Ofili titled “The Holy Virgin Mary,” which incorporates elephant dung as the basis for the virgin's bare breast, is truly ... «Aspen Times, Jul 15»
London Mega Collectors Fatima and Eskander Maleki Settle with …
Shariat helped the Malekis buy works by contemporary artists such as Chris Ofili. Photo: Courtesy of Christie's. Eskander Maleki told the court, ... «artnet News, Jul 15»
Art and tastefulness
One of those paintings was Chris Ofili's “The Holy Virgin Mary,” which was the subject of controversy and a lawsuit between the City of New ... «Troy Daily News, Jul 15»
