Details

ISBN-10: 1735762962
ISBN-13: 9781735762968
Publisher: Mw Editions
Publish Date: 11/01/2022
Dimensions: 13.90" L, 10.10" W, 0.70" H

Carrie Mae Weems: Kitchen Table Series

Photographer:Carrie Mae Weems
Foreword by: Sarah Elizabeth Lewis

Hardcover

Price: $60.00

Overview

“In book form, Kitchen Table is more intimate…. Unlike the experience of meandering through a museum, stepping back to appreciate the images and nearing the text panels to skim them, the pace of exploration is now in a person’s hands.” -Hilary Moss, New York Times

This publication is dedicated solely to the early and canonical body of work by American artist Carrie Mae Weems (born 1953). The 20 photographs and 14 text panels that make up Kitchen Table Series tell a story of one woman’s life, as conducted in the intimate setting of her kitchen. The kitchen, one of the primary spaces of domesticity and the traditional domain of women, frames her story, revealing to us her relationships–with lovers, children, friends–and her own sense of self, in her varying projections of strength, vulnerability, aloofness, tenderness and solitude.
As Weems describes it, this work of art depicts “the battle around the family … monogamy … and between the sexes. Weems herself is the protagonist of the series, though the woman she depicts is an archetype. Kitchen Table Series seeks to reposition and reimagine the possibility of women and the possibility of people of color, and has to do with, in the artist’s words, “unrequited love.”

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Kitchen Tables Series, which encompasses Carrie Mae Weems' possibly best-known body of work, is always worth revisiting.–Allison Schaller "Vanity Fair"
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Details

ISBN-10: 1735762962
ISBN-13: 9781735762968
Publisher: Mw Editions
Publish Date: 11/01/2022
Dimensions: 13.90" L, 10.10" W, 0.70" H
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