Description
A new and stimulating way of looking at Old Master paintings, juxtaposing 4 newly commissioned works with iconic works in the Frick’s collection.
“This work should be included in any art library. . . . The book’s grounding as not just about four Queer artists’ works, but as a larger discussion of portraiture and art history, allows this book to be helpful in a variety of classes or projects.”—Art Libraries Society of North America, (ARLIS/NA)
Living Histories: Queer Views and Old Masters is an exciting volume featuring the work of four New York-based artists, each presenting a single new work in conversation with celebrated paintings in The Frick Collection. The works place particular emphasis on issues of gender and queer identity typically excluded from narratives of early modern European art. The idea of commissioning four works to display at Frick Madison emerged when four masterpieces from the collection by Vermeer, Holbein and Rembrandt. were loaned to exhibitions. Works by Jenna Gribbon, Doron Langberg, Toyin Ojih Odutola and Salman Toor were commissioned to replace them alongside other works by these artists. This book is the result of the four New York artists’ responses to the Frick’s collection, and the conversations their work engendered.
Author biographies
Foreword by Hanya Yanagihara
Written contributions are provided by Jonathan Anderson, Jessica Bell Brown, Christopher Y. Lew, Jason Reynolds, Legacy Russell and Russell Tovey.
Aimee Ng is curator at The Frick Collection, New York
Xavier F. Salomon is deputy director and Peter Jay Sharp Chief Curator at The Frick Collection, New York
Stephen Truax is an artist, writer and curator based in New York
Table of Contents
- Foreword: Look at Us by Hanya Yanagihara
- Director’s Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Why by Xavier F. Salomon
- “We Can Occupy This Space Now” by Stephen Truax
- Jenna Gribbon and Toyin Ojih Odutola: Color as Communiqué by Jessica Bell Brown
- Hindsight by Aimee Ng
- The Future Eats the Past, Eats the Future by Russell Tovey
- Catalogue
- What Am I Doing Here? I Should Ask You the Same by Jenna Gribbon
- Jenna Gribbon in Conversation with Legacy Russell
- Lover by Doron Langberg
- Doron Langberg in Conversation with Jonathan Anderson
- Museum Boys by Salman Toor
- Salman Toor in Conversation with Christopher Y. Lew
- The Listener by Toyin Ojih Odutola
- Toyin Ojih Odutola in Conversation with Jason Reynolds
- Artist Biographies
- Resources
- Index
- Image Credits
