Glenn Ligon
$84.07
- Paperback
312 pages
- Release Date
26 May 2026
Summary
OCTOBER Files - Glenn Ligon
This compilation presents the first collection of critical discourse on the multimedia work of one of the most influential American artists of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. Glenn Ligon’s expansive body of work mines American history and literature to ask critical questions about modern culture.
Often citing or annotating past literary (e.g., James Baldwin), artistic (e.g., Andy Warhol), and musical (e.g., Steve Reich) interv…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262052627 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0262052628 |
| Author: | Huey Copeland |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 312 |
| Release Date: | 26 May 2026 |
| Weight: | 369g |
| Dimensions: | 210mm x 152mm |
| Series: | October Files |
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About The Author
Huey Copeland
Huey Copeland is Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Modern Art and Black Study at the University of Pittsburgh. An editor of OCTOBER, his books include:
- Bound to Appear: Art, Slavery, and the Site of Blackness in Multicultural America
- Black Modernisms in the Transatlantic World (edited with Steven Nelson)
- Touched by the Mother: Black Men, American Art, Feminist Horizons
A recipient of the 2019 David C. Driskell Prize from the High Museum of Art, Copeland currently serves on the board of directors of the Terra Foundation for American Art.
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