Basketball & Contemporary Art Rolon Carlos
The first, comprehensive, illustrated publication to explore the relationship between basketball and contemporary artFrom David Hammons' Higher Goals and Robert Indiana's Mecca Floor to the more…
Specifikacia Basketball & Contemporary Art Rolon Carlos
The first, comprehensive, illustrated publication to explore the relationship between basketball and contemporary artFrom David Hammons' Higher Goals and Robert Indiana's Mecca Floor to the more recent works of Nina Chanel Abney and Titus Kaphar, basketball has proven an especially popular sport in art. Whether in the depiction of players, abstract use of motifs, or as a means of examining social inequality and political justice, this collection takes readers on a journey to understand the game of basketball, not only as a physical activity played between a series of lines, but also as a reflection of a greater human experience.Gathering work by more than 250 artists from the 20th century to now, this volume reveals a little-discussed point of overlap between art and sport, in part to be found in the titular phrase "common