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OverviewOn the reconstitution of a body, death, translation, and editing This first monograph on artist and filmmaker Nicole Miller focuses on a single sculpture by the artist: Michael in Black (2018). This book brings together a cohort of writers and other artists through newly commissioned texts and works for the page, as well as republished texts and images that exist as their own whole. Some texts hinge on the sculpture, others are tangents. The book's texts and images build on each other, functioning as a prism for the publication's subject. Michael in Black (2018) is a bronze cast of Michael Jackson's kneeling figure, poured from a mold made directly from his body around 1986. This talismanic object comprises myriad aspects of celebrity and image: the objecthood of the performer, the potency and perversity of objects, death, and grief. This sculpture is an outlier in Miller's work, though it excavates some concerns she has similarly articulated in moving image: her recurring interest in the self-performance of her film subjects; the dehumanizing effects of the mass gaze; the celebrity as a host object for contemporary projections; the tactility of film, the sculptural qualities of editing; and the potential for self-storytelling to reconstitute an individual's wholeness. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Nicole Miller , Lauren Mackler , Pier Paolo Pasolini , Anna Deavere SmithPublisher: New York Consolidated Imprint: New York Consolidated Dimensions: Width: 16.00cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 24.10cm Weight: 0.658kg ISBN: 9781954939004ISBN 10: 1954939000 Pages: 256 Publication Date: 21 June 2022 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In stock We have confirmation that this item is in stock with the supplier. It will be ordered in for you and dispatched immediately. Table of ContentsReviewsA monograph-as-moodboard...a patchwork of interrelated excerpts all loosely orbiting around what Miller describes as the urge to [consume] ideas of people. --Kate Sutton Bookforum "A monograph-as-moodboard...a patchwork of interrelated excerpts all loosely orbiting around what Miller describes as the urge to ""[consume] ideas of people.""--Kate Sutton ""Bookforum""" Author InformationTab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |