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Summary:

One of the most arresting figurative artists working in Britain today, Claudette Johnson (b. 1959, Manchester, UK) creates larger than life studies of black women that are both intimate and powerful. Modern Art Oxford?s major show of her work, 'Claudette Johnson: I Came to Dance' (2019) is her first major institutional exhibition in almost three decades and included approximately 30 paintings and drawings in pastel, paint, ink and charcoal from the early 1980s to 2019. Throughout her career, Johnson has continued to redefine the space assigned to images of black women. Musing that "it is a very small twisted space that is offered", Johnson invites her sitters to "Take up space in a way that is reflective of who they are." The texts in this exhibition catalogue offer fresh insights into her practice and the dynamic impact of her event at the First National Black Arts Convention organised by the Blk Art Group in Wolverhampton, 1982.

Table of Contents:

• I came to dance : Claudette Johnson interview with Emma Ridgway
• Chiselled from pastel : the work of Claudette Johnson / Gilane Tawadros
• In this skin : featuring Claudette Johnson / Steve McQueen
• How many do you have now? / Claudette Johnson
• Doing the discourse : spaces of black feminist subjectivity in British art history / Ella S. Mills
• Curating another artist : Lubaina Himid on Claudette Johnson / Courtney J. Martin.

Contributors:

Johnson, Claudette, 1959- , artist, interviewee, contributor

Ridgway, Emma , editor, interviewer

Tawadros, Gilane , contributor

McQueen, Steve, 1969- , contributor

Mills, Ella S. , contributor

Martin, Courtney J. , contributor

Modern Art Oxford , host institution, issuing body, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/his, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/isb

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Subjects:

Johnson, Claudette, 1959- — Exhibitions

Johnson, Claudette, 1959- — Interviews

Art, Modern — 20th century

Art, Modern — 21st century

1900-2099

Art, Modern

Genres:

Exhibition catalogs

Interviews

General Notes:

"Published in 2019 by Modern Art Oxford on the occasion of the exhibition Claudette Johnson: I Came to Dance, 1 June - 8 September, 2019"--Colophon.
Includes bibliographical references.

Physical Description:

111 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), facsimiles, portraits ; 30 cm

Physical Characteristics:

facsimile; illustration; portrait

Call Numbers:

N6797.J557 A4 2019

ISBNs:

199964042X (paperback)
9781999640422 (paperback)

Library of Congress Control Numbers:

2019452888

OCLC Numbers:

1115083053