New releases from Public Image Ltd, William Basinski, John Luther Adams
The emancipatory eye
JOHN GREEN marvels at the rediscovery of a radical US photographer who took the black civil rights movement to her heart
Consuelo Kanaga. Young Girl in Profile, 1948.
[© Brooklyn Museum]
Banksy’s identity may have been published – but was the investigation in the public interest, asks PETER BENGTSEN
RON JACOBS recommends a book that charts the disparate circumstances that defined the lives of two prominent black Afro-Americans — one a communist, the other an anti-communist
CHRIS MOSS joins the hunt in Argentina for the works of Poland’s most enigmatic exile
SYLVIA HIKINS welcomes a survey of successful contemporary worker co-operatives and economy-based co-operative systems
DAVID NICHOLSON recommends the staging of this Wagnerian classic minus one or two insignificant quibbles
Consuelo Kanaga – Catch the Spirit
Drew Sawyer, Thames & Hudson, £50
Consuelo Kanaga. Fire, New York, 1922. Credit: © Brooklyn Museum
FEW will have come across the name Consuelo Kanaga (1894–1978), although she was one of the most influential US photographers during the first half of the 20th century. She suffered the same fate as so many women artists: consigned to the museum of amnesia. It is therefore cause for celebration that T&H, together with the Brooklyn Museum and Mapfre have collaborated on this volume dedicated to her work and helping rescue her from oblivion.
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