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member: Pope.L, 1978-2001

Hardback

Main Details

Title member: Pope.L, 1978-2001
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Stuart Comer
By (author) C. Carr
By (author) Valerie Cassel Oliver
By (author) Adrienne Edwards
By (author) Darby English
Physical Properties
Format:Hardback
Pages:144
Dimensions(mm): Height 200,Width 250
Category/GenreIndividual artists and art monographs
ISBN/Barcode 9781633450868
Audience
General
Illustrations 100 Illustrations, unspecified

Publishing Details

Publisher Museum of Modern Art
Imprint Museum of Modern Art
Publication Date 31 October 2019
Publication Country United States

Description

The first-in depth publication to critically investigate the impact of Pope.L's early performances on his career Pope.L (b. 1955) is a consummate thinker and provocateur whose practice across multiple mediums - including painting, drawing, installation, sculpture, theatre and video - utilizes abjection, humour, endurance, language and absurdity to confront and undermine rigid systems of belief. Spanning works made primarily from 1978 to 2001, member: Pope.L, 1978-2001 features a combination of videos, photographs, sculptural elements, ephemera and live actions. This volume, published in conjunction with an exhibition at The Museum of Modern Art, presents a detailed study of thirteen early works that helped define Pope.L's career. It features essays by curators, artists, filmmakers and art historians, plus an intervieww and artistic interventions by the artist. These components are supplemented by thirteen detailed plate entries that highlight key details of each work. The entries engage performances that are rooted in experimental theatre such as Egg Eating Contest (1990) and Aunt Jenny Chronicles (1991) as well as street interventions such as Thunderbird Immolation a.k.a. Meditation Square Piece (1978), ATM Piece (1996), and The Great White Way: 22 miles, 9 years, 1 street (2001-2009), among others. Together these works highlight the role of that performance has played within a seditious, emphatically interdisciplinary career that has established Pope.L as an influential force in the history of contemporary art.

Author Biography

Stuart Comer is Chief Curator in the Department of Media and Performance at The Museum of Modern Art, New York.

Reviews

[Pope L.'s] aim is to surface the realities of American life--uncomfortable economic, social, and political truths; and the yawning gaps between living while black and white. Published in conjunction with his survey at the Museum of Modern Art, "member: Pope.L, 1978-2001" examines 13 early works, street interventions and experimental theater that largely defined his career.--Victoria L Valentine "Culture Type" The current political situation has made the wit and social commentary in all of [Pope L.'s] performances achingly topical--sad for the country, then as now, but a good time to make art.--James Hannaham "4 Columns"