Glenn Ligon: America (Whitney Museum of American Art)

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine (with minor signs of shelf wear - see photos). Whitney Museum of American Art, 2011. First edition, first printing. Out of print and rare. This copy is signed and dated by American Artist Glenn Ligon. Signed following a lecture at the National Gallery of Art, March, 2013. Very rare signed copy of the first printing. Out of print. Comes with pamphlet from event. Seller will bubble wrap book and ship it with tracking. Please note, this is an oversized book, and as such, shipping costs may be higher than standard rates.

American artist Glenn Ligon (b. 1960) is best known for his landmark body of text-based paintings, made since the late 1980s, which draw on the writings and speech of diverse figures including Jean Genet, Zora Neale Hurston, Jesse Jackson, and Richard Pryor. Throughout his career, Ligon has pursued an incisive exploration of American history, literature, and society across a body of work that builds critically on the legacies of modern painting and more recent conceptual art. His subject matter ranges widely from the Million Man March and the aftermath of slavery to 1970s coloring books and the photography of Robert Mapplethorpe—all treated within artworks that are both politically provocative and beautiful to behold.

Glenn Ligon: AMERICA, created in close collaboration with the artist, surveys twenty-five years of Ligon's art, including paintings, sculptural installations, prints, and drawings. Essays examine his working methods in depth and situate his output within a broad cultural context, while lavish new photography highlights the formal subtlety of his art. This first comprehensive survey of Ligon's career will greatly advance our appreciation of his pioneering oeuvre.