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| barbara chase riboud interview: The Great Mrs. Elias Barbara Chase-Riboud, 2022-02-08 The author of the award-winning Sally Hemings now brings to life Hannah Elias, one of the richest black women in America in the early 1900s, in this mesmerizing novel swirling with atmosphere and steeped in history. A murder and a case of mistaken identity brings the police to Hannah Elias’ glitzy, five-story, twenty-room mansion on Central Park West. This is the beginning of an odyssey that moves back and forth in time and reveals the dangerous secrets of a mysterious woman, the fortune she built, and her precipitous fall. Born in Philadelphia in the late 1800s, Hannah Elias has done things she’s not proud of to survive. Shedding her past, Hannah slips on a new identity before relocating to New York City to become as rich as a robber baron. Hannah quietly invests in the stock market, growing her fortune with the help of businessmen. As the money pours in, Hannah hides her millions across 29 banks. Finally attaining the life she’s always dreamed, she buys a mansion on the Upper West Side and decorates it in gold and first-rate décor, inspired by her idol Cleopatra. The unsolved murder turns Hannah’s world upside-down and threatens to destroy everything she’s built. When the truth of her identity is uncovered, thousands of protestors gather in front of her stately home. Hounded by the salacious press, the very private Mrs. Elias finds herself alone, ensnared in a scandalous trial, and accused of stealing her fortune from whites. Packed with glamour, suspense, and drama, populated with real-life luminaries from the period, The Great Mrs. Elias brings a fascinating woman and the age she embodied to glorious, tragic life. |
| barbara chase riboud interview: Barbara Chase-Riboud Monumentale Christophe Cherix, Courtney J. Martin, Akili Tommasino, Stephanie Weissberg, 2023-05-30 Accompanying the largest monographic exhibition of trailblazing artist Barbara Chase-Riboud's (b. 1939, Philadelphia) work to date, Barbara Chase-Riboud Monumentale: The Bronzes traces the full output of the artist's remarkable career from the 1950s to the present. The catalogue features both celebrated and never-before-seen artworks, highlighting the artist's groundbreaking role in the field of contemporary sculpture. In addition to some fifty sculptures, the book presents twenty works on paper, as well as a selection of Chase-Riboud's internationally acclaimed poetry. It also includes excerpts from an interview with the artist conducted for the Archives of American Art at the Smithsonian Institution. The catalogue offers a careful consideration of the many diverse aspects of the artist's practice, and in doing so, it provides unprecedented insights into her meditations on form, memory, and monument, while revealing a rich array of global art-historical and literary points of inspiration-- |
| barbara chase riboud interview: Barbara Chase-Riboud Barbara Chase-Riboud, Carlos Basualdo, Gwendolyn DuBois Shaw, Ellen Handler Spitz, 2013 Catalogue of an exhibition at Philadelphia Museum of Art, held September 14, 2013 - January 20, 2014 and the University of California, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, February 12 - April 27, 2014. |
| barbara chase riboud interview: Sally Hemings Barbara Chase-Riboud, 2009 A fictional account of the relationship between American statesman Thomas Jefferson and his slave, Sally Hemings. |
| barbara chase riboud interview: To the Realization of Perfect Helplessness Robin Coste Lewis, 2022-12-06 A genre-bending exploration of poetry, photography, and human migration—another revelatory visual expedition from the National Book Award–winning poet who changed the way we see art, the museum, and the Black female figure. • Winner of the PEN/Voelcker Award for Poetry “Lewis pushes the limits of language and image, composing lines alongside a cache of hundreds of photographs found under her late grandmother’s bed only days before the house was slated to be razed.” —Kevin Young, The New Yorker Twenty-five years ago, after her maternal grandmother’s death, Robin Coste Lewis discovered a stunning collection of photographs in an old suitcase under her bed, filled with everything from sepia tintypes to Technicolor Polaroids. Lewis’s family had survived one of the largest migrations in human history, when six million Americans fled the South, attempting to escape from white supremacy and white terrorism. But these photographs of daily twentieth-century Black life revealed a concealed, interior history. The poetry Lewis joins to these vivid images stands forth as an inspiring alternative to the usual ways we frame the old stories of “race” and “migration,” placing them within a much vaster span of time and history. In what she calls “a film for the hands” and “an origin myth for the future,” Lewis reverses our expectations of both poetry and photography: “Black pages, black space, black time––the Big Black Bang.” From glamorous outings to graduations, birth announcements, baseball leagues, and back-porch delight, Lewis creates a lyrical documentary about Black intimacy. Instead of colonial nostalgia, she offers us “an exalted Black privacy.” What emerges is a dynamic reframing of what it means to be human and alive, with Blackness at its center. “I am trying / to make the gods / happy,” she writes amid these portraits of her ancestors. “I am trying to make the dead / clap and shout.” |
| barbara chase riboud interview: Hottentot Venus Barbara Chase-Riboud, 2007-12-18 It is Paris, 1815. An extraordinarily shaped South African girl known as the Hottentot Venus, dressed only in feathers and beads, swings from a crystal chandelier in the duchess of Berry’s ballroom. Below her, the audience shouts insults and pornographic obscenities. Among these spectators is Napoleon’s physician and the most famous naturalist in Europe, the Baron George Cuvier, whose encounter with her will inspire a theory of race that will change European science forever. Evoking the grand tradition of such “monster” tales as Frankenstein and The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Barbara Chase Riboud, prize-winning author of the classic Sally Hemings, again gives voice to an “invisible” of history. In this powerful saga, Sarah Baartman, for more than 200 years known only as the mysterious lady in the glass cage, comes vividly and unforgettably to life. |
| barbara chase riboud interview: The Roots of Educational Inequality Erika M. Kitzmiller, 2021-12-03 The Roots of Educational Inequality chronicles the transformation of one American high school over the course of the twentieth century to explore the larger political, economic, and social factors that have contributed to the escalation of educational inequality in modern America. In 1914, when Germantown High School officially opened, Martin G. Brumbaugh, the superintendent of the School District of Philadelphia, told residents that they had one of the finest high schools in the nation. Located in a suburban neighborhood in Philadelphia's northwest corner, the school provided Germantown youth with a first-rate education and the necessary credentials to secure a prosperous future. In 2013, almost a century later, William Hite, the city's superintendent, announced that Germantown High was one of thirty-seven schools slated for closure due to low academic achievement. How is it that the school, like so many others that serve low-income students of color, transformed in this way? Erika M. Kitzmiller links the saga of a single high school to the history of its local community, its city, and the nation. Through a fresh, longitudinal examination that combines deep archival research and spatial analysis, Kitzmiller challenges conventional declension narratives that suggest American high schools have moved steadily from pillars of success to institutions of failures. Instead, this work demonstrates that educational inequality has been embedded in our nation's urban high schools since their founding. The book argues that urban schools were never funded adequately. Since the beginning of the twentieth century, urban school districts lacked the tax revenues needed to operate their schools. Rather than raising taxes, these school districts relied on private philanthropy from families and communities to subsidize a lack of government aid. Over time, this philanthropy disappeared leaving urban schools with inadequate funds and exacerbating the level of educational inequality. |
| barbara chase riboud interview: Barbara Chase-Riboud, Sculptor Peter Selz, Anthony F. Janson, 1999 This richly illustrated book presents the first comprehensive overview of Chase-Ribound's 30-year career as a sculptor & draftsman. Distinguished art historians Peter Selz & Anthony F. Janson show how history, archaeology, spiritualism, the Baroque tradition, & Chase-Riboud's parallel career as a poet-novelist have influenced her work, from the Malcolm X, Tantra, Zanzibar, & Cleopatra series to her recent monument Africa Rising. |
| barbara chase riboud interview: It Speaks to Me Jori Finkel, 2019 Bernard Piffaretti on Pierrot, formerly known as Gilles by Jean-Antoine Watteau -- Ana Prvacki on Grotto of Sarrazine near Nans-sous-Sainte-Anne by Gustave Courbet -- Pipilotti Rist on Shiva Nataraja from Tamil Nadu -- Julião Sarmento on Portrait of a young woman by Domenico Ghirlandaio -- Mithu Sen on a red sandstone torso from Harappa -- Stephen Shore on the Studiolo from the Ducal Palace in Gubbio -- Shinique Smith on Canyon by Robert Rauschenberg -- Kishio Suga on Tokyo stone line by Richard Long -- Do Ho Suh on Kumgang Mountain by Jeong Seon -- Diana Thater on Video flag Z by Nam June Paik -- Rikrit Tiravanija on Venus of Bangkok by Montien Boonma -- Luc Tuymans on The Virgin and Child with Canon van der Paele by Jan Van Eyck -- Bill Viola on The Annunciation by Dieric Bouts -- Edmund de Waal on The interior of the Grote Kerk at Haarlem by Pieter Saenredam -- Gillian Wearing on Self-portrait at the age of 63 by Rembrandt --. |
| barbara chase riboud interview: The Skies Belong to Us Brendan I. Koerner, 2014-06-17 The true stroy of the longest-distance hijacking in American history. In an America torn apart by the Vietnam War and the demise of '60s idealism, airplane hijackings were astonishingly routine. Over a five-year period starting in 1968, the desperate and disillusioned seized commercial jets nearly once a week, using guns, bombs, and jars of acid. Some hijackers wished to escape to foreign lands; others aimed to swap hostages for sacks of cash. Their criminal exploits mesmerized the country, never more so than when shattered Army veteran Roger Holder and mischievous party girl Cathy Kerkow managred to comandeer Western Airlines Flight 701 and flee across an ocean with a half-million dollars in ransom—a heist that remains the longest-distance hijacking in American history. More than just an enthralling story about a spectacular crime and its bittersweet, decades-long aftermath, The Skies Belong to Us is also a psychological portrait of America at its most turbulent and a testament to the madness that can grip a nation when politics fail. |
| barbara chase riboud interview: The Art of Remembering Gwendolyn DuBois Shaw, 2024-03-01 In The Art of Remembering art historian and curator Gwendolyn DuBois Shaw explores African American art and representation from the height of the British colonial period to the present. She engages in the process of rememory—the recovery of facts and narratives of African American creativity and self-representation that have been purposefully set aside, actively ignored, and disremembered. In analyses of the work of artists ranging from Scipio Moorhead, Moses Williams, and Aaron Douglas to Barbara Chase-Riboud, Kara Walker, Kehinde Wiley, and Deana Lawson, Shaw demonstrates that African American art and history may be remembered and understood anew through a process of intensive close looking, cultural and historical contextualization, and biographic recuperation or consideration. Shaw shows how embracing rememory expands the possibilities of history by acknowledging the existence of multiple forms of knowledge and ways of understanding an event or interpreting an object. In so doing, Shaw thinks beyond canonical interpretations of art and material and visual culture to imagine “what if,” asking what else did we once know that has been lost. |
| barbara chase riboud interview: Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings Annette Gordon-Reed, 1998-03-29 When Annette Gordon-Reed's groundbreaking study was first published, rumors of Thomas Jefferson's sexual involvement with his slave Sally Hemings had circulated for two centuries. Among all aspects of Jefferson's renowned life, it was perhaps the most hotly contested topic. The publication of Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings intensified this debate by identifying glaring inconsistencies in many noted scholars' evaluations of the existing evidence. In this study, Gordon-Reed assembles a fascinating and convincing argument: not that the alleged thirty-eight-year liaison necessarily took place but rather that the evidence for its taking place has been denied a fair hearing. Friends of Jefferson sought to debunk the Hemings story as early as 1800, and most subsequent historians and biographers followed suit, finding the affair unthinkable based upon their view of Jefferson's life, character, and beliefs. Gordon-Reed responds to these critics by pointing out numerous errors and prejudices in their writings, ranging from inaccurate citations, to impossible time lines, to virtual exclusions of evidence—especially evidence concerning the Hemings family. She demonstrates how these scholars may have been misguided by their own biases and may even have tailored evidence to serve and preserve their opinions of Jefferson. This updated edition of the book also includes an afterword in which the author comments on the DNA study that provided further evidence of a Jefferson and Hemings liaison. Possessing both a layperson's unfettered curiosity and a lawyer's logical mind, Annette Gordon-Reed writes with a style and compassion that are irresistible. Each chapter revolves around a key figure in the Hemings drama, and the resulting portraits are engrossing and very personal. Gordon-Reed also brings a keen intuitive sense of the psychological complexities of human relationships—relationships that, in the real world, often develop regardless of status or race. The most compelling element of all, however, is her extensive and careful research, which often allows the evidence to speak for itself. Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings: An American Controversy is the definitive look at a centuries-old question that should fascinate general readers and historians alike. |
| barbara chase riboud interview: Echo of Lions Barbara Chase-Riboud, 1989 Epic saga of slavery in America based on the controversial historical figure - Joseph Cinque. |
| barbara chase riboud interview: Hannah Wilke Glenn Adamson, Connie Butler, 2022-02-15 Eros and Oneness / Tamara H. Schenkenberg -- Elective Affinities: Hannah Wilke's Ceramics in Context / Glenn Adamson -- Needed Erase Her? Don't. / Connie Butler -- Daughter/Mother / Catherine Opie -- Ha-Ha-Hannah / Jeanine Oleson -- Cycling Through Gestures to Strike a Pose / Nadia Myre -- Play and Care / Hayv Kahraman -- Cindy Nemser and Hannah Wilke in Conversation, 1975. |
| barbara chase riboud interview: Valide Barbara Chase-Riboud, 1986 |
| barbara chase riboud interview: Notable Black American Women Jessie Carney Smith, Shirelle Phelps, 1992 Arranged alphabetically from Alice of Dunk's Ferry to Jean Childs Young, this volume profiles 312 Black American women who have achieved national or international prominence. |
| barbara chase riboud interview: Fray Julia Bryan-Wilson, 2021-02 In 1974, women in a feminist consciousness-raising group in Eugene, Oregon, formed a mock organization called the Ladies Sewing Circle and Terrorist Society. Emblazoning its logo onto t-shirts, the group wryly envisioned female collective textile making as a practice that could upend conventions, threaten state structures, and wreak political havoc. Elaborating on this example as a prehistory to the more recent phenomenon of “craftivism”—the politics and social practices associated with handmaking—Fray explores textiles and their role at the forefront of debates about process, materiality, gender, and race in times of economic upheaval. Closely examining how amateurs and fine artists in the United States and Chile turned to sewing, braiding, knotting, and quilting amid the rise of global manufacturing, Julia Bryan-Wilson argues that textiles unravel the high/low divide and urges us to think flexibly about what the politics of textiles might be. Her case studies from the 1970s through the 1990s—including the improvised costumes of the theater troupe the Cockettes, the braided rag rugs of US artist Harmony Hammond, the thread-based sculptures of Chilean artist Cecilia Vicuña, the small hand-sewn tapestries depicting Pinochet’s torture, and the NAMES Project AIDS Memorial Quilt—are often taken as evidence of the inherently progressive nature of handcrafted textiles. Fray, however, shows that such methods are recruited to often ambivalent ends, leaving textiles very much “in the fray” of debates about feminized labor, protest cultures, and queer identities; the malleability of cloth and fiber means that textiles can be activated, or stretched, in many ideological directions. The first contemporary art history book to discuss both fine art and amateur registers of handmaking at such an expansive scale, Fray unveils crucial insights into how textiles inhabit the broad space between artistic and political poles—high and low, untrained and highly skilled, conformist and disobedient, craft and art. |
| barbara chase riboud interview: A History of the African American Novel Valerie Babb, 2017-07-31 This History is intended for a broad audience seeking knowledge of how novels interact with and influence their cultural landscape. Its interdisciplinary approach will appeal to those interested in novels and film, graphic novels, novels and popular culture, transatlantic blackness, and the interfacing of race, class, gender, and aesthetics. |
| barbara chase riboud interview: Carrie Mae Weems Kathryn E. Delmez, 2012-10-30 The work of contemporary artist Carrie Mae Weems (b. 1953) hits hard with a powerful mix of lived life and social commentary. Since the late 1970s, her photographs, films, and installations have become known for presenting realistic and authentic images of African Americans while confronting themes of race, gender, and class. This book, the first major survey of Weems's career, traces the artist's commitment to addressing issues of social justice through her artwork. Her early photographs, which focused on African American women and families, have since led to work that examines more general aspects of the African diaspora, from the legacy of slavery to the perpetuation of debilitating stereotypes. Increasingly, she has broadened her view to include global struggles for equality and justice. This beautifully illustrated book highlights over 200 of Weems's most important works. Accompanying essays by leading scholars explore Weems's interest in folklore, her focus on the spoken and written word, the performative aspect of her constructed tableaux, and her expressions of black beauty. |
| barbara chase riboud interview: Portrait of a Nude Woman as Cleopatra Barbara Chase-Riboud, 1987 |
| barbara chase riboud interview: Conversations with Biographical Novelists Michael Lackey, 2018-10-18 How does a writer approach a novel about a real person? In this new collection of interviews, authors such as Emma Donoghue, David Ebershoff, David Lodge, Colum McCann, Colm Tóibín, and Olga Tokarczuk sit down with literary scholars to discuss the relationship of history, truth, and fiction. Taken together, these conversations clarify how the biographical novel encourages cross-cultural dialogue, promotes new ways of thinking about history, politics, and social justice, and allows us to journey into the interior world of influential and remarkable people. |
| barbara chase riboud interview: 100 Most Popular African American Authors Bernard A. Drew, 2006-11-30 Here's a one stop resource, containing 100 profiles of your favorite contemporary African American writers, along with complete lists of their works. Focusing on writers who have made their mark in the past 25 years, this guide stresses African American writers of popular and genre literature-from Rochelle Alers and Octavia Butler, and Samuel Delaney to Walter Mosley, and Omar Tyree, with a few classic literary giants also included. Short profiles provide an overview of the author's life and summarize his or her writing accomplishments. Many are accompanied by black-and-white photos of the author. The biographies are followed by a complete list of the author's published works. Where can you find information about popular, contemporary African American authors? Web sites can be difficult to locate and unreliable, particularly for some of the newer authors, and their contents are inconsistent and often inaccurate. Although there are a number of reference works on African American writers, the emphasis tends to be on historical and literary authors. Here's a single volume containing 100 profiles of your favorite contemporary African American writers, along with lists of their works. Short profiles provide an overview of the author's life and summarize his or her writing accomplishments. Many are accompanied by black-and-white photos of the author. The biographies are followed by a complete list of the author's published works. Focusing on writers who have made their mark in the past 25 years, this guide covers African American writers of popular and genre literature—from Rochelle Alers, Octavia Butler, and Samuel Delaney to Walter Mosley, Omar Tyree, and Zane. A few classic literary giants who are popular with today's readers are also included—e.g., Maya Angelou, Toni Morrison, and Richard Wright. Readers who want to know more about their favorite African American authors or find other books written by those authors, students researching AA authors for reports and papers, and educators seeking background information for classes in African American literature will find this guide invaluable. (High school and up.) |
| barbara chase riboud interview: A Critical Study of Philip Guston Dore Ashton, 1990-01-01 Dore Ashton has updated the bibliography and added a new concluding chapter to her classic study of the paintings and drawings of Philip Guston, the only study of his work completely authorized by the artist. Philip Guston (1913-1980) was one of the most independent of the painters whose work was loosely linked by the term abstract expressionism during the 1950s, and he baffled admirers of his lushly beautiful abstract expressionist paintings by moving abruptly in mid-career to gritty figurative paintings in an almost cartoon-like style. One of the few critics who saw this at the time as a progressive development in his work was Dore Ashton, who here analyzes Guston's paintings and drawings in the context of the cultural milieu in which he worked, illuminating the dilemma facing artists who try to live with, understand, and express both the ideals of art and the reality of the world. Dore Ashton has updated the bibliography and added a new concluding chapter to her classic study of the paintings and drawings of Philip Guston, the only study of his work completely authorized by the artist. Philip Guston (1913-1980) was one of the most independent of the painters whose work was loosely linked by the term abstract expressionism during the 1950s, and he baffled admirers of his lushly beautiful abstract expressionist paintings by moving abruptly in mid-career to gritty figurative paintings in an almost cartoon-like style. One of the few critics who saw this at the time as a progressive development in his work was Dore Ashton, who here analyzes Guston's paintings and drawings in the context of the cultural milieu in which he worked, illuminating the dilemma facing artists who try to live with, understand, and express both the ideals of art and the reality of the world. |
| barbara chase riboud interview: Jack Whitten Kathryn Kanjo, Quincy Troupe, 2015 For five decades, New York-based artist Jack Whitten (born 1939) has explored the possibilities of paint, the role of the artist and the allure of materials. As a child of the segregated South, he bears witness to expressions of evil and the resilience of the human spirit. From his first spectral canvases to his recent mosaic canvases, Whitten's compelling compositions have spanned a half-century of artistic innovation. Showcasing approximately 60 canvases, this survey--the first substantial volume on the artist--reveals Whitten as an innovator who uses abstraction in its newest idioms to achieve an enduring gravitas. Whitten's abiding engagement with scientific systems (as structure), social issues (as evidence) and commitment to the power of visual expression (materiality) show him to be an artist both of his time and for the present. |
| barbara chase riboud interview: Elmgreen & Dragset Michael Elmgreen, Ingar Dragset, Massimiliano Gioni, Tony Benn, Amelia Saul, 2008 Since their first project together in 1995, Michael Elmgreen and Ingar Dragset have created a much-respected oeuvre, as well as a world entirely of their own. Their amazing architectural sculptures and installations have brought them international renown - for example, there is the multifaceted series Powerless Structures, which now includes over one hundred pieces; the duo's witty permanent installation Prada Marfa in the middle of the Texas desert; and their socio-critical traveling exhibition The Welfare Show. This Is the First Day of My Life introduces the most important works by this artistic duo, as well as previously unpublished creations. Three fictional texts help to expand the Elmgreen/Dragset universe into new, related fields.--BOOK JACKET. |
| barbara chase riboud interview: The African Burial Ground in New York City Andrea E. Frohne, 2015-11-09 In 1991, archaeologists in lower Manhattan unearthed a stunning discovery. Buried for more than 200 years was a communal cemetery containing the remains of up to 20,000 people. At roughly 6.6 acres, the African Burial Ground is the largest and earliest known burial space of African descendants in North America. In the years that followed its discovery, citizens and activists fought tirelessly to demand respectful treatment of eighteenth-century funerary remains and sacred ancestors. After more than a decade of political battle—on local and national levels—and scientific research at Howard University, the remains were eventually reburied on the site in 2003. Capturing the varied perspectives and the emotional tenor of the time, Frohne narrates the story of the African Burial Ground and the controversies surrounding urban commemoration. She analyzes both its colonial and contemporary representations, drawing on colonial era maps, prints, and land surveys to illuminate the forgotten and hidden visual histories of a mostly enslaved population buried in the African Burial Ground. Tracing the history and identity of the area from a forgotten site to a contested and negotiated space, Frohne situates the burial ground within the context of late twentieth- and early twenty-first-century race relations in New York City to reveal its enduring presence as a spiritual place. |
| barbara chase riboud interview: Bad Religion Ross Douthat, 2013-04-16 Traces the decline of Christianity in America since the 1950s, posing controversial arguments about the role of heresy in the nation's downfall while calling for a revival of traditional Christian practices. |
| barbara chase riboud interview: The Barbizon Paulina Bren, 2022-03-15 From award-winning author Paulina Bren comes the captivating portrait (The Wall Street Journal) of New York's most famous residential hotel--The Barbizon--and the remarkable women who lived there. Welcome to New York's legendary hotel for women. Liberated from home and hearth by World War I, politically enfranchised and ready to work, women arrived to take their place in the dazzling new skyscrapers of Manhattan. But they did not want to stay in uncomfortable boarding houses. They wanted what men already had--exclusive residential hotels with maid service, workout rooms, and private dining. Built in 1927, at the height of the Roaring Twenties, the Barbizon Hotel was designed as a luxurious safe haven for the Modern Woman hoping for a career in the arts. Over time, it became the place to stay for any ambitious young woman hoping for fame and fortune. Sylvia Plath fictionalized her time there in The Bell Jar, and, over the years, it's almost 700 tiny rooms with matching floral curtains and bedspreads housed, among many others, Titanic survivor Molly Brown; actresses Grace Kelly, Liza Minnelli, Ali MacGraw, Jaclyn Smith; and writers Joan Didion, Gael Greene, Diane Johnson, Meg Wolitzer. Mademoiselle magazine boarded its summer interns there, as did Katharine Gibbs Secretarial School its students and the Ford Modeling Agency its young models. Before the hotel's residents were household names, they were young women arriving at the Barbizon with a suitcase and a dream. Not everyone who passed through the Barbizon's doors was destined for success--for some, it was a story of dashed hopes--but until 1981, when men were finally let in, the Barbizon offered its residents a room of their own and a life without family obligations. It gave women a chance to remake themselves however they pleased; it was the hotel that set them free. No place had existed like it before or has since. Poignant and intriguing (The New Republic), The Barbizon weaves together a tale that has, until now, never been told. It is both a vivid portrait of the lives of these young women looking for something more and a brilliant many-layered social history of women's ambition and a rapidly changing New York through the 20th century (The Guardian). |
| barbara chase riboud interview: Jackie as Editor Greg Lawrence, 2011-01-04 “A fascinating window into an aspect of Jackie Kennedy Onassis that few of us know.” —USA Today History remembers Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis as the consummate first lady, the nation’s tragic widow, the millionaire’s wife, and, of course, the quintessential embodiment of elegance. Her biographers, however, skip over an equally important stage in her life: her nearly twenty-year-long career as a book editor. Jackie as Editor is the first book to focus exclusively on this remarkable woman’s editorial career. At the age of forty-six, Jacket went to work for the first time in twenty-two years. Greg Lawrence, who had three of his books edited by Jackie, draws from interviews with more than 125 of her former collaborators and acquaintances to examine one of the twentieth century’s most enduring subjects of fascination through a new angle. Over the last third of her life, Jackie shepherded more than a hundred books through the increasingly corporate halls of Viking and Doubleday, publishing authors as diverse as Diana Vreeland, Louis Auchincloss, George Plimpton, Bill Moyers, Dorothy West, Naguib Mahfouz, and even Michael Jackson. Jackie as Editor gives intimate new insights into the life of a complex and enigmatic woman. “Fascinating.” —Town & Country “Perceptive, impressively researched.” —Publishers Weekly “You can tell a lot about the late First Lady’s life by the books she loved, and those she edited in her nearly two decades as a publishing executive.” —O Magazine “A deeply admiring portrait.” —Kirkus Reviews “A must for Jackie fans.” —Sarah Bradford, New York Times–bestselling author of America’s Queen: The Life of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis |
| barbara chase riboud interview: Happy Hour Marlowe Granados, 2021-09-07 With the verve and bite of Ottessa Moshfegh and the barbed charm of Nancy Mitford, Marlowe Granados’s stunning debut brilliantly captures a summer of striving in New York City. Isa Epley, all of twenty-one years old, is already wise enough to understand that the purpose of life is the pursuit of pleasure. She arrives in New York with her newly blond best friend looking for adventure. They have little money, but that’s hardly going to stop them. By day, the girls sell clothes on a market stall, pinching pennies for their Bed-Stuy sublet and bodega lunches. By night, they weave between Brooklyn, the Upper East Side, and the Hamptons among a rotating cast of celebrities, artists, Internet entrepreneurs, stuffy intellectuals, and bad-mannered grifters. Resources run ever tighter and the strain tests their friendship as they try to convert social capital into something more lasting than precarious gigs as au pairs, nightclub hostesses, paid audience members, and aspiring foot fetish models. Through it all, Isa’s bold, beguiling voice captures the precise thrill of cultivating a life of glamour and intrigue as she juggles paying her dues with skipping out on the bill. Happy Hour is a novel about getting by and having fun in a system that wants you to do neither. |
| barbara chase riboud interview: Rita Ackermann Harmony Korine, 2021 This book brings together Rita Ackermann's Mama paintings, a selection of which will be on view in early 2020 at Hauser & Wirth New York, 22nd Street. It brings together screenwriter and filmmaker Harmony Korine's fake interview with Ackermann, a tribute addressed to the artist from Scott Griffin that explores Ackermann's interplay of time and medium, an original poem written by the artist, and a robust plate section that presents all of the Mama works made to date. Exhibition: Hauser & Wirth, New York, USA (20.02.-11.04.2020). |
| barbara chase riboud interview: Hans Ulrich Obrist Hans Ulrich Obrist, 2003 Transcripts of interviews by Hans Ulrich Obrist with architects, artists, curators, film-makers, musicians, philosophers, social theorists and urbanists. |
| barbara chase riboud interview: Old In Art School Nell Painter, 2018-06-19 A finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, this memoir of one woman's later in life career change is “a smart, funny and compelling case for going after your heart's desires, no matter your age” (Essence). Following her retirement from Princeton University, celebrated historian Dr. Nell Irvin Painter surprised everyone in her life by returning to school––in her sixties––to earn a BFA and MFA in painting. In Old in Art School, she travels from her beloved Newark to the prestigious Rhode Island School of Design; finds meaning in the artists she loves, even as she comes to understand how they may be undervalued; and struggles with the unstable balance between the pursuit of art and the inevitable, sometimes painful demands of a life fully lived. How are women and artists seen and judged by their age, looks, and race? What does it mean when someone says, “You will never be an artist”? Who defines what an artist is and all that goes with such an identity, and how are these ideas tied to our shared conceptions of beauty, value, and difference? Bringing to bear incisive insights from two careers, Painter weaves a frank, funny, and often surprising tale of her move from academia to art in this glorious achievement––bighearted and critical, insightful and entertaining. This book is a cup of courage for everyone who wants to change their lives (Tayari Jones, author of An American Marriage). |
| barbara chase riboud interview: Consuming Stories Rebecca Peabody, 2021-02-23 In Consuming Stories, Rebecca Peabody uses the work of contemporary American artist Kara Walker to investigate a range of popular storytelling traditions with roots in the nineteenth century and ramifications in the present. Focusing on a few key pieces that range from a wall-size installation to a reworked photocopy in an artist’s book and from a theater curtain to a monumental sculpture, Peabody explores a significant yet neglected aspect of Walker’s production: her commitment to examining narrative depictions of race, gender, power, and desire. Consuming Stories considers Walker’s sustained visual engagement with literary genres such as the romance novel, the neo-slave narrative, and the fairy tale and with internationally known stories including Roots, Beloved, and Uncle Tom’s Cabin. Walker’s interruption of these familiar works , along with her generative use of the familiar in unexpected and destabilizing ways, reveals the extent to which genre-based narrative conventions depend on specific representations of race, especially when aligned with power and desire. Breaking these implicit rules makes them visible—and, in turn, highlights viewers’ reliance on them for narrative legibility. As this study reveals, Walker’s engagement with narrative continues beyond her early silhouette work as she moves into media such as film, video, and sculpture. Peabody also shows how Walker uses her tools and strategies to unsettle cultural histories abroad when she works outside the United States. These stories, Peabody reminds us, not only change the way people remember history but also shape the entertainment industry. Ultimately, Consuming Stories shifts the critical conversation away from the visual legacy of historical racism toward the present-day role of the entertainment industry—and its consumers—in processes of racialization. |
| barbara chase riboud interview: Rebellious Histories Matthew J. Christensen, 2012-02-16 From the early 1970s to the mid-1990s, playwrights, novelists, filmmakers, visual artists, and prison writers from Sierra Leone and the United States brought a new attention to the events of the 1839 Amistad shipboard slave rebellion. As a testament of the human will to freedom, the story of the Amistad mutineers also describes the wide arc of the international circuits of capital, commerce, juridical power, and diplomacy that structured and reproduced the Atlantic slave trade for nearly four centuries. In Rebellious Histories, Matthew J. Christensen argues that for creative artists struggling to comprehend—and survive—pernicious manifestations of globalization like Sierra Leone's civil war, the Amistad rebellion's narrative of exploitative resource extraction, transatlantic migrations, armed rebellion, and American judicial intervention offers both a historical antecedent and allegory for contemporary global capitalism's reconfiguration of culture and subjectivity. At the same time, he shows how the mutineers' example provides a model for imagining utopian forms of transnationalism. With its wide-ranging comparative approach, Rebellious Histories brings a unique perspective to the study of the cultural histories of both slave resistance and globalization. |
| barbara chase riboud interview: The Movement Clara Bingham, 2024-07-30 A comprehensive and engaging oral history of the decade that defined the feminist movement, including interviews with living icons and unsung heroes—from former Newsweek reporter and author of the “powerful and moving” (New York Times) Witness to the Revolution. For lovers of both Barbie and Gloria Steinem, The Movement is the first oral history of the decade that built the modern feminist movement. Through the captivating individual voices of the people who lived it, The Movement tells the intimate inside story of what it felt like to be at the forefront of the modern feminist crusade, when women rejected thousands of years of custom and demanded the freedom to be who they wanted and needed to be. This engaging history traces women’s awakening, organizing, and agitating between the years of 1963 and 1973, when a decentralized collection of people and events coalesced to create a spontaneous combustion. From Betty Friedan’s The Feminine Mystique, to the underground abortion network the Janes, to Shirley Chisholm’s presidential campaign and Billie Jean King’s 1973 battle of the sexes, Bingham artfully weaves together the fragments of that explosion person by person, bringing to life the emotions of this personal, cultural, and political revolution. Artists and politicians, athletes and lawyers, Black and white, The Movement brings readers into the rooms where these women insisted on being treated as first class citizens, and in the process, changed the fabric of American life. |
| barbara chase riboud interview: Black Post-Blackness Margo Natalie Crawford, 2017-05-12 A 2008 cover of The New Yorker featured a much-discussed Black Power parody of Michelle and Barack Obama. The image put a spotlight on how easy it is to flatten the Black Power movement as we imagine new types of blackness. Margo Natalie Crawford argues that we have misread the Black Arts Movement's call for blackness. We have failed to see the movement's anticipation of the new black and post-black. Black Post-Blackness compares the black avant-garde of the 1960s and 1970s Black Arts Movement with the most innovative spins of twenty-first century black aesthetics. Crawford zooms in on the 1970s second wave of the Black Arts Movement and shows the connections between this final wave of the Black Arts movement and the early years of twenty-first century black aesthetics. She uncovers the circle of black post-blackness that pivots on the power of anticipation, abstraction, mixed media, the global South, satire, public interiority, and the fantastic. |
| barbara chase riboud interview: The Oath Elie Wiesel, 2013-02-13 When a Christian boy disappears in a fictional Eastern European town in the 1920s, the local Jews are quickly accused of ritual murder. There is tension in the air and a pogrom threatens to erupt. Suddenly, an extraordinary man—Moshe the dreamer, a madman and mystic—steps forward and confesses to a crime he did not commit, in a vain attempt to save his people from certain death. The community gathers to hear his last words—a plea for silence—and everyone present takes an oath: whoever survives the impending tragedy must never speak of the town’s last days and nights of terror. For fifty years the sole survivor keeps his oath—until he meets a man whose life depends on hearing the story, and one man’s loyalty to the dead confronts head-on another’s reason to go on living. One of Wiesel’s strongest early novels, this timeless parable about the Jews and their enemies, about hate, family, friendship, and silence, is as powerful, haunting, and significant as it was when first published in 1973. |
| barbara chase riboud interview: Remembering Generations Ashraf H. A. Rushdy, 2003-01-14 Slavery is America's family secret, a partially hidden phantom that continues to haunt our national imagination. Remembering Generations explores how three contemporary African American writers artistically represent this notion in novels about the enduring effects of slavery on the descendants of slaves in the post-civil rights era. Focusing on Gayl Jones's Corregidora (1975), David Bradley's The Chaneysville Incident (1981), and Octavia Butler's Kindred (1979), Ashraf Rushdy situates these works in their cultural moment of production, highlighting the ways in which they respond to contemporary debates about race and family. Tracing the evolution of this literary form, he considers such works as Edward Ball's Slaves in the Family (1998), in which descendants of slaveholders expose the family secrets of their ancestors. Remembering Generations examines how cultural works contribute to social debates, how a particular representational form emerges out of a specific historical epoch, and how some contemporary intellectuals meditate on the issue of historical responsibility--of recognizing that the slave past continues to exert an influence on contemporary American society. |
| barbara chase riboud interview: Black Routes to Islam M. Marable, Hishaam D. Aidi, 2009-08-03 Starting with 19th century narratives of African American travelers to the Holy Land, the following chapters probe Islam's role in urban social movements, music and popular culture, relations between African Americans and Muslim immigrants, and the racial politics of American Islam with the ongoing war in Iraq. |
Interview with Barbara Chase-Riboud - Free
Barbara Chase-Riboud, you are a sculptor (and a gifted graphic artist), a poet, and a novelist, and when we look at your career, we observe that you constantly switch back and forth from one …
Oral history interview with Barbara Chase-Riboud
An interview of Barbara Chase-Riboud conducted June 8-11 by Erin Gilbert for the Archives of American Art's Oral History Project, at Chase-Riboud's home in Paris, France.
Orienting 'Composure' in the Sculptural and Poetic Work of …
Chinese writing in Barbara Chase-Riboud's poem. By charting the ways in which Chinese tropes move and signify in two key examples of Chase-Riboud's work, I hope to show how such a …
Barbara Chase-Riboud
Chase-Riboud is now known as one of the best historical novelists in America. Before writing her first novel, she had become fascinated by the story of a slave named Sally Hemings, who had a
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Barbara Chase-Riboud is an African American artist, poet and novelist, who was raised and educated in Philadelphia and now divides her time between Paris and Rome. 1 Her long time …
Monuments woman Barbara Chase-Riboud
Barbara Chase-Riboud in Brussel te bewonderen. Artista maakte kennis met een krasse tachtiger die lang voor ze van hippe hashtags voorzien werden op de #metoo, #blacklivesmatter en …
The Encounter: Barbara Chase-Riboud/Alberto Giacometti
Inspired by that encounter, this exhibition brings together the work of these two expatriate sculptors, who both looked to the past in order to reimagine the art of their time, and follows …
Barbara Chase-Riboud's Sally - JSTOR
brance and revision is Barbara Chase-Riboud's Sally Hemings. In this first novel, based on the life of its eponymous heroine, Thomas Jefferson's purported slave mistress, Chase-Riboud …
Oral history interview with Barbara Chase-Riboud, 2019 June 7 …
The following oral history transcript is the result of a recorded interview with Barbara Chase-Riboud on June 8–11, 2019. The interview took place at Chase-Riboud's home in Paris, …
ARTIST BIOS - Museum of Modern Art
Barbara Chase-Riboud was born in 1939 in Philadelphia (Pennsylvania, USA). Since 1960 she has lived and worked between Paris, Rome, and Milan. A sculptor, poet, and novelist, Chase …
Barbara Chase-Riboud Monumentale - Pulitzer Arts Foundation
Barbara Chase-Riboud Monumentale: The Bronzes will be the largest monographic exhibition of the artist’s work to date, tracing her full career from the 1950s to the present.
Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Capital: In Barbara Chase …
In her new novel, "Central Park", Barbara Chase-Riboud continues her provocative exploration of the multiple standards inherent in national and civic principles. Against the backdrop of Gilded …
September 9 – November 4, 2017 - michaelrosenfeldart.com
Barbara Chase-Riboud with Malcolm #15, #16 and #17 of the American civil rights movement through the lens of a global struggle against racism and the economic, cultural, and geopolitical
BARBARA CHASE-RIBOUD: INFINITE FOLDS
With a career spanning over seven decades, Chase-Riboud’s innovation in sculptural technique and materiality is characterised by the interplay between folds of cast bronze and aluminium …
Barbara Chase-Riboud: The Malcolm X Steles
Gwendolyn DuBois Shaw, Chase-Riboud herself (a reprint of a lecture given at the PMA), and Ellen Handler Spitz (a philosopher who writes on topics ranging from aesthetics to psychology). …
Barbara Chase-Riboud. The Josephines A celebration of the …
—Barbara Chase-Riboud Hauser & Wirth Monaco will exhibit a tribute by the renowned sculptor and poet Bar bara Chase-Riboud to the legendary Josephine Baker (1905 – 1975), whose …
Barbara Chase-Riboud: Bronze, fiber works a tribute to …
Chase-Riboud, also a prolific writer, found controversy with "Sally Hemings" (1979), her historical novel about a black woman, born a slave, who was the companion of Thomas Jefferson.
BARBARA CHASE-RIBOUD: INFINITE FOLDS
American-born visual artist, sculptor, novelist and poet -Riboud. On display at Barbara Chase Serpentine North from 1 1 October 2022 to 29 January 2023, this is the artist’s first institutional …
MoMA ANNOUNCES THE ENCOUNTER: BARBARA CHASE …
New York, NY, March 13, 2023—The Museum of Modern Art announces The Encounter: Barbara Chase-Riboud/Alberto Giacometti, a focused exhibition developed in close collaboration with …
Barbara Chase-Riboud Monumentale: The Bronzes - Pulitzer …
Chase-Riboud’s work is informed by an array of historic and modern cultures. Standing Black Woman of Venice pays tribute to these global influences in form and name. Its austere, …
Interview with Barbara Chase-Riboud - Free
Barbara Chase-Riboud, you are a sculptor (and a gifted graphic artist), a poet, and a novelist, and when we look at your career, we observe that you constantly switch back and forth from one …
Oral history interview with Barbara Chase-Riboud
An interview of Barbara Chase-Riboud conducted June 8-11 by Erin Gilbert for the Archives of American Art's Oral History Project, at Chase-Riboud's home in Paris, France.
Orienting 'Composure' in the Sculptural and Poetic Work of …
Chinese writing in Barbara Chase-Riboud's poem. By charting the ways in which Chinese tropes move and signify in two key examples of Chase-Riboud's work, I hope to show how such a …
Barbara Chase-Riboud
Chase-Riboud is now known as one of the best historical novelists in America. Before writing her first novel, she had become fascinated by the story of a slave named Sally Hemings, who had a
BARBARA CHASE-RIBOUD’S MULTIMEDIA RECEPTIONS OF …
Barbara Chase-Riboud is an African American artist, poet and novelist, who was raised and educated in Philadelphia and now divides her time between Paris and Rome. 1 Her long time …
Monuments woman Barbara Chase-Riboud
Barbara Chase-Riboud in Brussel te bewonderen. Artista maakte kennis met een krasse tachtiger die lang voor ze van hippe hashtags voorzien werden op de #metoo, #blacklivesmatter en …
The Encounter: Barbara Chase-Riboud/Alberto Giacometti
Inspired by that encounter, this exhibition brings together the work of these two expatriate sculptors, who both looked to the past in order to reimagine the art of their time, and follows …
Barbara Chase-Riboud's Sally - JSTOR
brance and revision is Barbara Chase-Riboud's Sally Hemings. In this first novel, based on the life of its eponymous heroine, Thomas Jefferson's purported slave mistress, Chase-Riboud …
Oral history interview with Barbara Chase-Riboud, 2019 …
The following oral history transcript is the result of a recorded interview with Barbara Chase-Riboud on June 8–11, 2019. The interview took place at Chase-Riboud's home in Paris, …
ARTIST BIOS - Museum of Modern Art
Barbara Chase-Riboud was born in 1939 in Philadelphia (Pennsylvania, USA). Since 1960 she has lived and worked between Paris, Rome, and Milan. A sculptor, poet, and novelist, Chase …
Barbara Chase-Riboud Monumentale - Pulitzer Arts …
Barbara Chase-Riboud Monumentale: The Bronzes will be the largest monographic exhibition of the artist’s work to date, tracing her full career from the 1950s to the present.
Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Capital: In Barbara Chase …
In her new novel, "Central Park", Barbara Chase-Riboud continues her provocative exploration of the multiple standards inherent in national and civic principles. Against the backdrop of Gilded …
September 9 – November 4, 2017 - michaelrosenfeldart.com
Barbara Chase-Riboud with Malcolm #15, #16 and #17 of the American civil rights movement through the lens of a global struggle against racism and the economic, cultural, and geopolitical
BARBARA CHASE-RIBOUD: INFINITE FOLDS
With a career spanning over seven decades, Chase-Riboud’s innovation in sculptural technique and materiality is characterised by the interplay between folds of cast bronze and aluminium …
Barbara Chase-Riboud: The Malcolm X Steles
Gwendolyn DuBois Shaw, Chase-Riboud herself (a reprint of a lecture given at the PMA), and Ellen Handler Spitz (a philosopher who writes on topics ranging from aesthetics to psychology). …
Barbara Chase-Riboud. The Josephines A celebration of the …
—Barbara Chase-Riboud Hauser & Wirth Monaco will exhibit a tribute by the renowned sculptor and poet Bar bara Chase-Riboud to the legendary Josephine Baker (1905 – 1975), whose …
Barbara Chase-Riboud: Bronze, fiber works a tribute to …
Chase-Riboud, also a prolific writer, found controversy with "Sally Hemings" (1979), her historical novel about a black woman, born a slave, who was the companion of Thomas Jefferson.
BARBARA CHASE-RIBOUD: INFINITE FOLDS
American-born visual artist, sculptor, novelist and poet -Riboud. On display at Barbara Chase Serpentine North from 1 1 October 2022 to 29 January 2023, this is the artist’s first institutional …
MoMA ANNOUNCES THE ENCOUNTER: BARBARA CHASE …
New York, NY, March 13, 2023—The Museum of Modern Art announces The Encounter: Barbara Chase-Riboud/Alberto Giacometti, a focused exhibition developed in close collaboration with …
Barbara Chase-Riboud Monumentale: The Bronzes - Pulitzer …
Chase-Riboud’s work is informed by an array of historic and modern cultures. Standing Black Woman of Venice pays tribute to these global influences in form and name. Its austere, …
