Kehinde Wiley, The World Stage: China

Kehinde Wiley, 2007. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Hardcover. An exhibition catalog featuring the art of Kehinde Wiley, the artist chosen to paint Obama's official portrait. 11 1/4" X 8 3/4". 40pp. Very mild shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of unclipped dust jacket. Gentle rubbing and a couple spots of toning to covers and edges of red silk over boards. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. An overall clean, solid copy of this catalogue published in conjunction with with exhibition, The World Stage: China, presented at the John Michael Kohler Arts Center from February 11-May 6, 2007.

ABOUT THIS BOOK:
Exhibited at the John Michael Kohler Arts Center in Wisconsin, The World Stage: China is a series of monumental paintings that continues his investigation into the blurry divide between urban/highbrow and traditional/contemporary representations. These paintings evolved as a result of an invitation to Wiley to start a studio in Beijing. While interested in working in China, Wiley felt it was important for the paintings to embody a specific reference to Chinese culture. In his discovery of historic propaganda posters from China's Cultural Revolution, Wiley found a correlation between the ways in which African American identity has and continues to be manufactured and manipulated by both the media and society, and how Chinese national identity was distorted during the Maoist era.(Publisher).