Kitchen Table Series
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Kitchen table series. It s now finally getting a stand alone copy out at the end of april from. The book features for the first time all 20 photographs and 14 text panels from kitchen table series one of the artist s earliest series and includes essay contributions by sarah lewis and adrienne edwards. Filmed in her syracuse studio artist carrie mae weems discusses the impetus for her work the kitchen table series 1990 a photographic investigation of a single domestic space in which the artist staged scenes of the battle around the family between women and men friends and lovers parents and children.
These images often were accompanied by text and audio recordings. More information and credits. The intimate and often political content of this narrative series finds common ground around the kitchen table transcending the separation of domestic and civic space.
Kitchen table series is the first publication dedicated solely to this early and important body of work by the american artist carrie mae weems. The 20 photographs and 14 text panels that make up kitchen table series tell a story of one woman s life as conducted in the intimate setting of her kitchen. Kitchen table series is a special volume dedicated to carrie mae weems s celebrated body of work made in 1990.
Considered to be one of the artist s most important bodies of work carrie mae weems kitchen table series interweaves themes of race class gender friendship love loss power and motherhood. She used for several works the kitchen table series 1990. And her kitchen table series has been equally enduring making its way into plenty of books and museums over the years.
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