Cauleen Smith: Give It or Leave It - Paperback
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by Cauleen Smith (Artist), Rhea Anastas (Text by (Art/Photo Books)), Rodney McMillian (Text by (Art/Photo Books))
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.
Number of Pages: 82
Dimensions: 0.6 x 9 x 6.7 IN
Publication Date: October 22, 2019