124 Pages
14 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
124 Pages
14 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
124 Pages
14 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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This book investigates Jimmie Durham’s community-building process of making and display in four of his projects in Europe: Something … Perhaps a Fugue or an Elegy (2005); two Neapolitan nativities (2016 and ongoing); The Middle Earth (with Maria Thereza Alves, 2018); and God’s Poems, God’s Children (2017).
Andrea Feeser explores these artworks in the context of ideas about connection... Read more
Introduction. Art Exists for Us Socially
1. Art Matters: Something … Perhaps a Fugue, or an Elegy, 2005
2. Neighbors and Faith in Community: Durham’s Neapolitan Presepi, 2016 and Ongoing
3. Civilization and its Dis(Contents): Maria Thereza Alves and Jimmie Durham’s The Middle Earth, 2018
4. Animals are Our Brethren: God’s Children, God’s Poems, 2017
Conclusion. Humanity Is Not a Completed Project
Biography
Andrea Feeser is Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art History, Theory, and Criticism at Clemson University.
