Rashid Johnson
by Claudia Rankine, Sampada Aranke, and Akili Tommasino
Publication Date: Nov 08, 2023
List Price: $54.95
Format: Paperback, 160 pages
Classification: Nonfiction
ISBN13: 9781838663261
Imprint: Phaidon Press
Publisher: Phaidon Press
Parent Company: Phaidon Press
‘Johnson is a leading voice of his generation.’ — New York Times
The most comprehensive publication to date on widely celebrated artist Rashid Johnson.
Working with a variety of media that includes painting, sculpture, photography, video, and performance, Rashid Johnson has created a nuanced and iconographic body of work that connects literature, music, and art. Personal references and pervasive cultural narratives are interweaved with the legacy of modernist abstraction, producing what critics have labelled ‘conceptual post-black art’. A precocious talent (his work was included in the seminal ‘