PUBLISHER
Williams College Museum of Art

BOOK FORMAT
Flexi, 9.25 x 11 in. / 128 pgs / 100 color.

PUBLISHING STATUS
Pub Date 11/30/2012
Active

DISTRIBUTION
D.A.P. Exclusive
Catalog: FALL 2012 p. 116

PRODUCT DETAILS
ISBN 9780913697306 TRADE
List Price: $24.99 CAD $34.50 GBP £22.00

AVAILABILITY
Out of stock

TERRITORY
WORLD

EXHIBITION SCHEDULE

Williamstown, MA
Williams College Museum of Art, 08/18/12-11/25/12

Minneapolis, MN
Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum, University of Minnesota, 03/02/13-06/30/13

Ithaca, NY
Herbert F. Johnson Museum, Cornell University, 09/07/13-12/22/13

THE FALL 2024 ARTBOOK | D.A.P. CATALOG

Preview our FALL 2024 catalog, featuring more than 500 new books on art, photography, design, architecture, film, music and visual culture.

WILLIAMS COLLEGE MUSEUM OF ART

Laylah Ali: The Greenheads Series

Edited by Deborah Rothschild. Introduction by Katy Kline. Text by Julia Bryan-Wilson, Kevin Young. Interview by Deborah Rothschild.

This book is the first complete documentation of the Greenheads series by Laylah Ali (born 1968), created between 1996 and 2005. Consisting of over 80 works, Ali’s exquisitely rendered gouache-on-paper paintings chronicle the dystopian world of her enigmatic green-headed figures. This provocative imagery is open-ended, darkly humorous and triggers a range of associations through their references to the media, historical events and racial and gender tropes. The catalogue allows viewers to examine the evolution of the critically acclaimed series, from the early paintings, which focus on charged exchanges between groups of figures, to the later works, where the events and figures are radically and starkly pared down. The Greenheads Series includes texts by art historian and critic Julia Bryan-Wilson and poet Kevin Young, as well as an interview with the artist by curator Deborah Rothschild.