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PUBLISHER
Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania

BOOK FORMAT
Paperback, 6.5 x 9 in. / 82 pgs / 125 color / 35 bw.

PUBLISHING STATUS
Pub Date
Out of stock indefinitely

DISTRIBUTION
D.A.P. Exclusive
Catalog: SPRING 2020

PRODUCT DETAILS
ISBN 9780884541462 TRADE
List Price: $30.00 CAD $45.00 GBP £27.00

AVAILABILITY
Not available

TERRITORY
WORLD

EXHIBITION SCHEDULE

Los Angeles, CA
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Summer 2020

Seattle, WA
Frye Art Museum, 06/01/19–09/01/19

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INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ART, UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA

Cauleen Smith: Give It or Leave It

Text by Anthony Elms, Rhea Anastas, Cauleen Smith, Rodney McMillian.

A multimedia portrait of four famed utopian sites celebrating a Black, spiritual America

Through films, objects, and installation, Chicago-based filmmaker Cauleen Smith (born 1967) offers an emotional axis by which to navigate four distinct universes: Alice Coltrane and her Sai Anantam ashram; a 1966 photo shoot by Bill Ray at Simon Rodia's Watts Towers in Los Angeles; Noah Purifoy and his desert assemblages in Joshua Tree; and black spiritualist Rebecca Cox Jackson and her Shaker community in 19th-century Philadelphia.

These locations, while not technically utopian societies, embody sites of historical speculation and radical generosity between artist and community. In reimagining a future through this mix, Smith casts a world that is black, feminist, spiritual and unabashedly alive.

This volume, wrapped in a frosted and foil-stamped dust jacket, contains full-color photographs of the multi-room installation and provides further insight into Smith's creative process and myriad influences through two interviews and a manifesto written by the artist.


Cauleen Smith: Give It or Leave It

STATUS: Out of stock indefinitely.

CAULEEN SMITH MONOGRAPHS + ARTIST'S BOOKS

Cauleen Smith: Breaking Cinema

CAULEEN SMITH: BREAKING CINEMA

Mousse Publishing

ISBN: 9788867496372
USD $22.00
| CAD $33

Pub Date: 2/25/2025
Forthcoming