A critical history and comprehensive catalog of the celebrated and controversial works created by activist and artist Tim Rollins and Kids of Survival.
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A critical history and comprehensive catalog of the celebrated and controversial works created by activist and artist Tim Rollins and Kids of Survival.
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Very good. Format is approximately 10 inches by 11.5 inches. Decorative cover. Essays by Julie Ault, Larry Rinder, Susan Cahan, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, David Deitcher, Eleanor Heartney, James Romaine, Interview with the artist by Ian Berry. Includes Works in the Exhibition, Contributors, Tim Rollins and K.O.S. Biographies, Exhibition History, Bibliography. Acknowledgments, and Credits. The publication accompanied the exhibition Tim Rollins and K.O.S. : A History curated by Ian Berry. The Exhibition was shown as The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery, Skidmore College, Saratoga springs, New York, February 28--August 23, 2009; Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, September 11-December 6, 2009, and Frye Art Museum Seattle, Washington January 23-May 31, 2010. In August 1981, Tim Rollins, then twenty-six years old, was recruited by George Gallego, principal of Intermediate School 52 in the South Bronx, to develop a curriculum that incorporated art-making with reading and writing lessons for students classified as academically or emotionally "at risk." Together, Rollins and his students developed a collaborative strategy that combined lessons in reading and writing with the production of works of art. In a process they call "jammin', " Rollins or one of the students read aloud from the selected text while the other members drew, relating the stories to their own experiences. Their signature style was born as Rollins and K.O.S. began producing works of art directly on the pages of these books, cut out and laid in a grid on canvas. A critical history and comprehensive catalog of the celebrated and controversial works created by activist and artist Tim Rollins and Kids of Survival. This book unfolds that history, offering the first comprehensive catalog of work created collaboratively by Rollins and several generations of students, now known as the Kids of Survival. Rollins and his students developed a way of working that combined art-making with reading literature and writing personal narratives: Rollins or a student would read aloud from classic literary texts by such authors as Shakespeare and Orwell while the rest of the class drew or wrote on the pages being read, connecting the stories to their own experiences. Often, Rollins and his students (who later named themselves Kids of Survival or K.O.S. ) cut out book pages and laid them on a grid on canvas before undertaking their graphic interventions. This process developed into the group's signature style, which they applied to literary texts, musical scores, and other printed matter. This book and the accompanying major museum retrospective document the history of the groundbreaking practice of Tim Rollins and K.O.S., with full color images of paintings, drawings, sculptures, and prints. These include a caricature of Jesse Helms with an animal body drawn on the pages of Animal Farm; graffiti-like images painted in acrylic on the pages of Frankenstein; a gleaming pattern of fantastical golden horns on Kafka's Amerika; and a series of red letter A's on The Scarlet Letter.
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New. 026201355X. *** FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request ***-*** IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT-Flawless copy, brand new, pristine, never opened--Text in English. 220 pp. With 120 col. Ills. 23 x 30 cm. --with a bonus offer--