Bisa Butler : portraits
2020
Book
Bisa Butler (born 1973) is an American artist who creates arresting and psychologically nuanced portraits composed entirely of vibrantly colored and patterned fabrics that she cuts, layers, and stitches together. Often depicting scenes from African American life and history, Butler invites viewers to invest in the lives of the people she represents while simultaneously expanding art-historical narratives about American quiltmaking.
Item Details
ISBN: 9780300254310
Description: 1 volume : illustrations (black and white, and colour) ; 31 cm
Contents:
- Rearranging memory : Bisa Butler's portraits and the discourse of art history / Erica Warren
- Photography and quiltmaking transformed : a new approach to portraiture / Michèle Wije
- Fabulating blackness : Bisa Butler's fluorescence and Faith Ringgold's black light / Jordan Carter
- Catalogue entries / Bisa Butler, Jordan Carter, Isabella Ko, Erica Warren, Michèle Wije.
Control Number: 3031027
Publisher: Chicago : Art Institute of Chicago, 2020.