Common Practice: Basketball & Contemporary Art - Rilegato

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ISBN 10: 8857243974 ISBN 13: 9788857243979

Casa editrice: Skira, 2021

Riassunto

The first, comprehensive, illustrated publication to explore the relationship between basketball and contemporary art

From David Hammons' Higher Goals and Robert Indiana’s Mecca Floor to the more recent works of Nina Chanel Abney and Titus Kaphar, basketball has proven an especially popular sport in art. Whether in the depiction of players, abstract use of motifs, or as a means of examining social inequality and political justice, this collection takes readers on a journey to understand the game of basketball, not only as a physical activity played between a series of lines, but also as a reflection of a greater human experience.
Gathering work by more than 250 artists from the 20th century to now, this volume reveals a little-discussed point of overlap between art and sport, in part to be found in the titular phrase “common practice”—“practice” in the sense of “to perform an activity or exercise regularly in order to improve or maintain one’s proficiency.” This book argues that the need to rehearse, discover and explore through the act of doing makes these two very different ideas of perfecting one’s craft very similar.
Artists include: Nina Chanel Abney, Emma Amos, Romare Bearden, Salvador Dalí, Elaine de Kooning, Keith Haring, David Hammons, Barkley Hendricks, Robert Indiana, JR, KAWS, Titus Kaphar, Jacob Lawrence, Roy Lichtenstein, Sharon Lockhart, Robert Longo, Claes Oldenburg, Paul Pfeiffer, Alex Prager, Richard Prince, Robert Rauschenberg, Faith Ringgold, Lorna Simpson, Andy Warhol, Ai Weiwei and Wendy White.
Carlos Rolón is a visual artist known for his multi-disciplinary practice whose work explores themes of craft, ritual, beauty, spirituality, identity and its relationship to art history and the institution.
Dan Peterson is the founder of Project Backboard, a nonprofit organization devoted to renovating basketball courts and improving public spaces across the country through art and community.
John Dennis is an artist and filmmaker, and creative director at NXTHVN—an arts incubator and residency program based in New Haven, CT.

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Carlos Rolón is a visual artist known for his multi-disciplinary practice whose work explores themes of craft, ritual, beauty, spirituality, identity and its relationship to art history and the institution.

Dan Peterson is the founder of Project Backboard, a non profit organization devoted to renovating basketball courts and improving public spaces across the country through art and community. 10% of book sales of “Common Practice” will go to supporting Project Backboard.

John Dennis is a film maker and photographer whose work involves helping build and amplify artists voices. As an advocate for the arts, one of his current roles is creative lead at NXTHVN, an arts incubator and residency program based in New Haven, CT.

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Common Practice seeks to examine the ways in which contemporary art relates with the sport and surrounding culture of basketball.

Basketball has long proven to inform and inspire works of art across generations, from David Hammon’s “Higher Goals” and Robert Indiana’s “Mecca Floor”, to the current day works of Nina Chanel Abney and Titus Kaphar. Many of the artists represented have at one point or more throughout their practice shared an interest in utilizing the ubiquity of basketball iconography as a means to shine a light on issues of social inequality, political justice and other formidable cultural commentary.

This publication serves as a journey to further understand basketball not only as a physical activity played between a series of lines, but to see the game outside of those lines through the wider lens of art. One hope is to advance the idea, especially for young people, that both artists and athletes have more in common than one might believe, and in doing so further disseminate the idea that creativity is not exclusive to just one type of person, but something we all have an intrinsic accessibility to.

“Common Practice” is a colloquial term in every sense. The irony of joining the two contrasting worlds of art and basketball is a play on this idea, the thread between them being practice: “to perform an activity or exercise regularly in order to improve or maintain one’s proficiency”. It is precisely this underlying need to rehearse, discover and explore through the act of doing, that makes these two very different ideas of perfecting one’s craft, much the same.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Skira
• Data di pubblicazione: 2021
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 8857243974
• ISBN 13: 9788857243979
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 341
• Redattore: Roln Carlos, Peterson Dan, Dennis John
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• Persona responsabile: non disponibile