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Lorna Simpson, Okwui Enwezor ; curator's foreword by Helaine Posner ; essay by Hilton Als ; conversation with the artist, Isaac Julien and Thelma Golden ; with a preface by Shamim M. Momin

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 152-153) and index

illustrations

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Lorna Simpson

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Okwui Enwezor ; curator's foreword by Helaine Posner ; essay by Hilton Als ; conversation with the artist, Isaac Julien and Thelma Golden ; with a preface by Shamim M. Momin

"Lorna Simpson, which accompanies a major mid-career retrospective organized by the American Federation of Arts, offers a comprehensive examination of this artist's remarkable achievement over a period of more than twenty years of production. The works featured include examples of the artist's earliest photograph and text works, in which she introduces the basic elements of combining a figure whose body is often cropped or whose face is hidden from view with fragments of text that confound the viewer's expectations of narrative and identity. Simpson's illustrious career is charted up to the present with film and video installations from 1997 to 2004, as well as the artist's most recent photographs."--BOOK JACKET

Acknowledgments -- Curators foreword / Helaine Posner -- Repetition and differentiation, Lorna Simpson's iconography of the racial sublime / Okwui Enwezor -- Conversation with the artist / Issac Julien and Thelma Golden ; preface by Shamim M. Momin -- Marianne lately: Lorna Simpson and the cinema of feminine illusion / Hilton Als -- Checklist of the exhibition -- Exhibition history -- Selected bibliography -- Index -- Photo credits