Adrian Piper.
Colored People.
London: Book Works, 1991.
Softcover.
292 pages.
Edition of 1000.
Very good.
Dust jacket has some minor creasing. Front cover has creasing and two small closed tears. Slight unobtrusive soiling to covers.
A handsome copy of this scarce artist's book.
"“Tickled pink. Scarlet with embarrassment. Purple with anger. Blue. Green with envy. Jaundiced yellow. White with fear. Black depression.” Adrian Piper’s book is a collaboration with sixteen people who were asked to cut out these ‘metaphorical moods’ and record them as photographs which Piper then took responsibility for sorting, depending on her response to the expressions. According to Piper, the book “was intended as a light-hearted conceptual gesture with serious implications”.
Colored People is a project that attempts to deal with two aspects of prejudgement; those made about others and those made about art that is delimited as political as a method of containment of what else it may be about, how richly politics may be defined.
A collaborative book project by Adrian Piper, featuring Houston Conwill, Kinshasha Conwill, Jane Farver, David Frankel, Sam Gilliam, Kellie Jones, Lucy Lippard, Rosemary Mayer, John Moore, John Morita, Clive Phillpot, Howardena Pindell, Lowery Sims, Kaylynn Sullivan, Judith Wilson, and Josephine Withers.
ISBN: 978 1 870699 07 5
