Fred Wilson: Objects and Installations 1979-2000If social justice is Fred Wilson's subject, the museum is his medium. By placing meticulously rendered objects in environments that carefully recreate the details of a museum setting, down to their wall colors, lighting, display cases and wall labels, Wilson incisively explores the question of how the museum consciously and unconsciously perpetuates racist beliefs and behavior. From Egyptian and classical Greek and Roman sculpture to African-American memorabilia, from the primativist painting of Picasso to the uniforms worn by often black museum guards, Wilson's provocative juxtapositions speak to a complex history of museological omission, manipulation and oversight. This book marks the artist's first mid-career survey. |
Common terms and phrases
aesthetic African African American American Art ancient archive Art Gallery Art Museum artifacts artist and Metro audience Baltimore Center century City collection College color conceptual Contemporary Art context Courtesy the artist created critical cultural curators display Egypt Egyptian exhibition experience Face Fred Wilson Gallery guard High ideas images included installation institution interested Invisible issues labels lives look mannequins Maryland Historical Society material meaning Memorial Metaphors Metro Pictures Mining the Museum Mixed Modern Art Museum of American Museum of Art native nature never objects paintings past Photograph Politics portrait practice present Press question race relations relationship represented reveal Review San Francisco sculpture Seattle Selected slave social space Street texts things University various View viewer visitors Visual voice wall Whitney Museum writes York