David Hammons: Body Prints, 1968-1979 Hammons David
David Hammons: Body Prints, 1968-1979 Hammons David On Hammons' seminal series that ingeniously merged print and performance, celebration and critiqueThe first book dedicated to these pivotal early…
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David Hammons: Body Prints, 1968-1979 Hammons David
On Hammons' seminal series that ingeniously merged print and performance, celebration and critiqueThe first book dedicated to these pivotal early works on paper, David Hammons: Body Prints, 1968-1979 brings together the monoprints and collages in which the artist used the body as both a drawing tool and printing plate to explore performative, unconventional forms of image making. The resulting impressions are intimately direct indexes of faces, skin, and hair that exist somewhere between spectral portraits and physical traces. Hammons created the body prints by greasing his own body--or that of another person--with substances including margarine and baby oil, pressing or rolling body parts against paper, and sprinkling the surface with charcoal and powdered pigment.
Hammons' body prints represent the origin of his artistic language, one that has
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