May 12
The Index
1 result(s)
- The Old, Weird America
1- Charlie White, 1957, 2006. C-print, 44 3/4 x 56 inches
Courtesy Wohnmaschine, Berlin
2- Jeremy Blake, Video still from Winchester, 2002, DVD: color, sound, 18 minutes (continuous loop)
Courtesy Kinz, Tillou and Feign, New York
The Contemporary Arts Museum Houston examines the return of folk. From the first Thanksgiving in 1621 to the early hours of the Space Age in 1957, a crowd of characters has aggregated to form the great procession of American folklore. Cunning Indians and brave cowboys, Founding Fathers and pious settlers, victims of the Civil War or the Great Depression... From the western to Happy Days, the iconography is bountiful and the subjects a-plenty. In a country upset by brutal social and political transformations, and haunted by the memory of September 11, the most contemporary of artists seek, through their own mythology, a way to re-bind their identity to the land's master narratives.
Exhibition The Old, Weird America, at the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, May 10 through July 20, 08
