Edited with text by Naomi Beckwith. Foreword by Madeleine Grynsztejn. Text by Romi Crawford, Antwaun Sargent, Malik Gaines, Krista Thompson, Meida Teresa McNeal. Interviews by Naomi Beckwith, Nick Cave, Nona Hendryx, Linda Johnson Rice, Damita Jo Freeman.
With a wealth of images and commentary, this is the essential career survey of Cave's socially responsive art
The definitive volume on the ever-evolving and shape-shifting work of the Chicago-based artist, Nick Cave: Forothermore highlights the way Cave’s practice has shifted and continues to shift in response to our history and current moment of cultural crisis. Including several new, never-before-seen works, the book shows an artist at the height of his power. Addressing topics ranging from art history to social justice, Nick Cave: Forothermore includes essays from Naomi Beckwith, Romi Crawford, Antwaun Sargent, Malik Gaines, Krista Thompson and Meida Teresa McNeal. Punctuating these contributions are interviews with the artist exploring his life, work and teaching practice, as well as a roundtable discussion between Cave and dancer Damita Jo Freeman, musician Nona Hendryx and publisher Linda Johnson Rice on Cave's art and influences, as well as pivotal cultural phenomena from Soul Train to Ebony magazine. Nick Cave: Forothermore reveals the way art, music, fashion and performance can help us envision a more just future. Nick Cave (born 1959) is an artist and educator working between the visual and performing arts through a wide range of mediums, including sculpture, installation, video, sound and performance. Cave is well known for his Soundsuits, sculptural forms based on the scale of his body, initially created in direct response to the police beating of Rodney King in 1991. Cave has had major exhibitions at MASS MoCA (2016), Cranbrook Art Museum (2015), Saint Louis Art Museum (2014–15), ICA Boston (2014), Denver Art Museum (2013), Seattle Art Museum (2011) and the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (2009), among others. Cave lives and works in Chicago.
Featured image is reproduced from 'Nick Cave: Forothermore'.
PRAISE AND REVIEWS
Vanity Fair
Madison Reid
His hundreds of subsequent Soundsuits, which produce a cacophony of noise when combined with movement, contain infinite contradictions: obfuscation and hypervisibility, refuge and escape—somber reminders of injustice and joyful imaginings of a more utopic future.
Hyperallergic
Debra Brehmer
With explosions of color and materiality, Cave has his own enigmatic ways to funnel the funk through histories of adversity.
New Yorker
Johanna Fateman
Achieves a paradoxical tone of elegiac flamboyance in his work, confronting the spectre of anti-Black brutality with glittering feats of assemblage and couturier-level craft.
Dallas Morning News
Gina Mayfield
This book shows what a tour de force of originality he is, and it also absolutely forces you to think.
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Soundsuit (2008) is from Nick Cave: Forothermore, a staff favorite year-round, but also an essential volume in our Pride Month Staff Picks booklist. “In a sense, the dysmorphic physical forms of Cave’s pretty monsters resist a want for racial or gendered assignation,” Romi Crawford writes. “The Soundsuits might therefore be interpreted in terms not unlike those used to describe the status of the Black dandy, who, as Monica L. Miller explains, ‘brought along with him a destabilization of other categories of identity; he was essentially nothing but mixed, a product of interracial relations, a sliding point on the spectrum of gender and sexuality.’ Cave’s objects welcome a state of, and a space for, alternate or next-level otherness, instantiating secure pockets and emplacements that secure gender and racial autonomy and inventiveness.” continue to blog
Featured spreads are from Nick Cave: Forothermore, the superb catalog to the critically-acclaimed mid-career survey on view now through October 2, 2022, at the MCA Chicago. “In Cave’s art, material realities simultaneously encompass journeys of Black oppression and excellence,” Antwaun Sargent writes. “His reconstitution of found materials that are often uncommon in contemporary fashion design—but which are found in histories of costume and craft—is an experiment in exceeding traditions as a way of extending the possibilities of identity. It’s a re-stylization of the conditions of the present into an aesthetic politic that provides a space of hope for the Black body. It is a constructed space where the Black body can transcend the violence prescribed to Black identity with glamour, authority and noise. Cave’s is a language that is built on the past, operates from the present, but thrusts the imagination far into the future.” continue to blog
FORMAT: Hbk, 9 x 11 in. / 304 pgs / 250 color. LIST PRICE: U.S. $65.00 LIST PRICE: CANADA $88 GBP £52.00 ISBN: 9781942884965 PUBLISHER: DelMonico Books/Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago AVAILABLE: 6/21/2022 DISTRIBUTION: D.A.P. RETAILER DISC: TRADE PUBLISHING STATUS: Active AVAILABILITY: In stock TERRITORY: WORLD
Published by DelMonico Books/Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago. Edited with text by Naomi Beckwith. Foreword by Madeleine Grynsztejn. Text by Romi Crawford, Antwaun Sargent, Malik Gaines, Krista Thompson, Meida Teresa McNeal. Interviews by Naomi Beckwith, Nick Cave, Nona Hendryx, Linda Johnson Rice, Damita Jo Freeman.
With a wealth of images and commentary, this is the essential career survey of Cave's socially responsive art
The definitive volume on the ever-evolving and shape-shifting work of the Chicago-based artist, Nick Cave: Forothermore highlights the way Cave’s practice has shifted and continues to shift in response to our history and current moment of cultural crisis. Including several new, never-before-seen works, the book shows an artist at the height of his power.
Addressing topics ranging from art history to social justice, Nick Cave: Forothermore includes essays from Naomi Beckwith, Romi Crawford, Antwaun Sargent, Malik Gaines, Krista Thompson and Meida Teresa McNeal. Punctuating these contributions are interviews with the artist exploring his life, work and teaching practice, as well as a roundtable discussion between Cave and dancer Damita Jo Freeman, musician Nona Hendryx and publisher Linda Johnson Rice on Cave's art and influences, as well as pivotal cultural phenomena from Soul Train to Ebony magazine. Nick Cave: Forothermore reveals the way art, music, fashion and performance can help us envision a more just future.
Nick Cave (born 1959) is an artist and educator working between the visual and performing arts through a wide range of mediums, including sculpture, installation, video, sound and performance. Cave is well known for his Soundsuits, sculptural forms based on the scale of his body, initially created in direct response to the police beating of Rodney King in 1991. Cave has had major exhibitions at MASS MoCA (2016), Cranbrook Art Museum (2015), Saint Louis Art Museum (2014–15), ICA Boston (2014), Denver Art Museum (2013), Seattle Art Museum (2011) and the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (2009), among others. Cave lives and works in Chicago.
