{"title":"Jack Whitten","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"jack-whitten-the-messenger-hardcover","title":"Jack Whitten: The Messenger – Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\"A book as rich with insight as the show itself\" — \u003cem\u003eArtNews \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\"A Peak MoMA Moment . . . sweeping and scintillating . . . an art whose messages are historical, mystical, personal, by a radically inventive artist who ranks right at the top of abstraction’s pantheon\" — \u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\"[The] retrospective of the major abstract painter Jack Whitten . . . blew our reviewer away.\" — \u003cem\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\"The American artist moved from the segregated South to the New York art world and beyond as he forged unique processes . . . which are now on view in a staggering retrospective.\" — \u003cem\u003eWall Street Journal\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cstrong id=\"docs-internal-guid-aea37371-7fff-8d91-2e9c-381a49413e11\"\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, 'Open Sans', 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif;\"\u003eEdited by Michelle Kuo, with contributions by Glenn Ligon, Julie Mehretu, Anna Deavere Smith, Sampada Aranke, Mark Godfrey, Michael Duffy, Annie Wilker, Dana Liljegren, George E. Lewis, Richard Shiff.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eJack Whitten (1939–2018) offered the world a new way to see. Raised under racial segregation in the US South, Whitten moved to New York in 1960 and, over the next six decades, dared to invent novel techniques for making art, with tools and materials ranging from acrylic paint to Afro-combs to electrostatic printing. A lifelong advocate for Civil Rights and social justice, Whitten was under great pressure to produce realistic art as a means of activism. But he persisted in creating revelatory forms of abstract art—and, in the process, changed the relationship between culture, society, and memory.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003ePublished to accompany the first comprehensive survey of Whitten’s remarkable career, held at The Museum of Modern Art, this beautifully illustrated volume features major contributions by prominent writers, artists, and curators including Michelle Kuo, Julie Mehretu, Glenn Ligon, Anna Deavere Smith, and George E. Lewis; pathbreaking technical studies of Whitten’s ingenious methods and innovative materials; and newly published archival photographs, documents, and the artist’s own writings reflecting on his singular journey—for which art, he said, was his “compass to the cosmos.”\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MUSEUM OF MODERN ART 700003","offers":[{"title":"Multi \/ One Size","offer_id":45682191565030,"sku":"900170-900170","price":75.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0623\/7962\/2630\/files\/5fc76133-6f18-4aab-b02e-a78c5c08b93f.jpg?v=1741286033"}],"url":"https:\/\/store.moma.org\/en-mt\/collections\/jack-whitten.oembed","provider":"MoMA Design Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}