![]() Text by Sampada Aranke, Edwidge Danticat. Published by DelMonico Books/Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami. PUBLISHER: DelMonico Books/Institute of Contemporary Art, MiamiĮmail Trade Sales: Saar: Serious Moonlight … It’s one planet and how everybody contributes to that through their ethnic origins or their cultural practices." continue to blogīETYE SAAR: SERIOUS MOONLIGHT DELMONICO BOOKS/INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ART, MIAMI ISBN: 9781636810362īETYE SAAR: BLACK DOLL BLUES ROBERTS PROJECTS ISBN: 9781733664769īETYE SAAR: BLACK GIRL’S WINDOW THE MUSEUM OF MODERN ART, NEW YORK ISBN: 9781633450769īETYE SAAR: UNEASY DANCER FONDAZIONE PRADA ISBN: 9788887029673įORMAT: Hbk, 8.25 x 10.75 in. She is quoted: "It is not that I’m emulating Haitian Vodou or New Orleans Hoodoo or Chango or Santeria. ![]() In House of Fortune, Saar combines a variety of spiritual and religious traditions that deal with fate and future. Featured image is reproduced from 'Betye Saar: Serious Moonlight'.įROM THE ARTBOOK BLOG CORY REYNOLDS | DATE Featuring a pull-off poster cover, 'Betye Saar: Serious Moonlight' is a New Release this week! "Memory of Fire" (1987), from Betye Saar's 1998 House of Fortune installation, is reproduced from Serious Moonlight, the catalog to Saar's recent exhibition at ICA Miami. de Young Memorial Museum, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. ![]() Saar’s work was prominently featured in We Wanted a Revolution: Black Radical Women, 1965–85 at the Brooklyn Museum, New York, and in Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power at Tate Modern, London, which traveled to Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas Brooklyn Museum The Broad, Los Angeles and the M.H. Most recently, solo presentations have been hosted by the Museum of Modern Art, New York, and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. For over six decades, Saar’s work has led dialogues on race and gender, reflecting changing cultural and political contexts. Betye Saar: Serious Moonlight reinforces and celebrates Saar’s standing as a visionary artist, storyteller and mythmaker, and the ongoing significance and relevance of her work to the most pressing issues in America today.īetye Saar (born 1926) is renowned for pioneering Black feminism and West Coast assemblage in her visionary artistic practice, through dense, complexly referential objects. With compelling scholarship and rich illustration-combining new installation photography and archival material-the monograph provides a fresh look at this significant artist’s critical and influential practice. Featured here are significant installations created by Saar from 1980 to 1998, including Oasis (1984), a work that will be reconfigured at ICA Miami’s Saar exhibition for the first time in more than 30 years. Showcasing a lesser-known aspect of Saar’s art, Betye Saar: Serious Moonlight provides new insights into her explorations of ritual, spirituality and cosmologies, as well as themes of the African diaspora. The audio and exact setlist from the concert film was reused for the Serious Moonlight (Live '83) live album, included with the Loving the Alien (1983–1988) box set in 2018 and released separately the following year the live album additionally includes the aforementioned live recording of "Modern Love" as the final track.Rarely seen installation works that exemplify this pioneering artist’s critical focus on Black identity and Black feminism ![]() The concert includes most of the songs from the concert although "Star", " Stay", " The Jean Genie", "Red Sails" and " Modern Love" were left off the 1984 release due to time constraints the songs were not reinstated for the 2006 DVD release.Ī live version (audio only) of "Modern Love", recorded on 13 July 1983 at a show in Montreal and originally released as the B-side to the studio version of the same song, can be found elsewhere on the 2006 DVD release as background music for the photo gallery. Filmed in Vancouver on 12 September 1983, on the singer's " Serious Moonlight Tour", the video was released on VHS and laserdisc in 1984 and on DVD in 2006. Serious Moonlight is the title of a David Bowie concert video. Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars: The Motion Picture
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