书名：LaToya Ruby Frazier: Monuments of Solidarity / 拉托亚·鲁比·弗雷泽：团结的纪念碑
定价：550.0
ISBN：9781633451599
作者：Roxana Marcoci
版次：1
出版时间：2024-05

内容提要：

书 名：LaToya Ruby Frazier: Monuments of Solidarity / 拉托亚·鲁比·弗雷泽：团结的纪念碑

作 者：Roxana Marcoci

出 版：The Museum of Modern Art, New York ，2024

装 帧：平装，256页

语 种：英语

尺 寸：24.1*30.4 cm

 

 

弗雷泽以其独特的方式排列这些引人入胜的照片，展现了黑人工人阶级社区面临的众多社会和政治斗争。

 

二十多年来，艺术家兼活动家拉托亚·鲁比·弗雷泽一直通过摄影、文字、动态影像和表演等形式，复兴并保存后工业时代被遗忘的劳动、性别和种族叙事。弗雷泽的创作实践建立在20世纪30年代社会纪实传统、20世纪60至70年代的摄影概念探索，以及厄普顿·辛克莱、詹姆斯·鲍德温和贝尔·胡克斯等具有社会意识的作家的作品之上。《团结的丰碑》颂扬了在工业化与去工业化、种族和环境不公正、性别差异、医疗和清洁水资源分配不均，以及基本人权被剥夺等困境中仍然存在的创造力和合作精神。作为一种黑人女性主义的世界构建方式，弗雷泽非传统的“劳动者思想纪念碑”要求人们认识到女性和有色人种在历史以及当今的劳动力和工人阶级中所扮演的关键角色。

 

《团结的纪念碑》一书配合首次全面介绍这位艺术家的博物馆展览而出版，展现了其创作的全貌，包括一些罕见作品和全新系列作品。展览策展人罗克萨娜·马尔科奇撰写了一篇富有启发性的综述文章，书中还收录了艺术家本人的宣言，以及由其他策展人和学者撰写的一系列专题论文。

 

Frazier’s personalized arrangements of her compelling photographs recognize the myriad social and political struggles of Black working-class communities

 

For more than two decades, artist-activist LaToya Ruby Frazier has used photography, text, moving images and performance to revive and preserve forgotten narratives of labor, gender and race in the postindustrial era. Frazier has cultivated a practice that builds on the legacy of the social documentary tradition of the 1930s, the photo-conceptual forays of the 1960s and 1970s, and the work of socially conscious writers such as Upton Sinclair, James Baldwin and bell hooks. Monuments of Solidarity celebrates the creativity and collaboration that persist in the face of industrialization and deindustrialization, racial and environmental injustice, gender disparities, unequal access to health care and clean water, and the denial of fundamental human rights. A form of Black feminist world-building, Frazier’s nontraditional “monuments for workers’ thoughts” demand recognition of the crucial role that women and people of color have played, and continue to play, in histories of labor and the working class.

Published in conjunction with the first comprehensive museum survey dedicated to the artist, Monuments of Solidarity presents the full range of her practice and includes both rarely seen and brand-new bodies of work. An illuminating overview essay by the exhibition’s curator, Roxana Marcoci, is accompanied by a manifesto by the artist and a suite of focused essays by other curators and scholars.