David Hammons

Bliz-aard Ball Sale

Elena Filipovic (Director, Kunsthalle Basel)

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English

Afterall Publishing
08 September 2017

Art & design styles: Conceptual art; Art & design styles: Postmodernism; Individual artists, art monographs

Series: David Hammons

Drawing on unpublished documents and oral histories, an illustrated examination of an iconic artwork of an artist who has made a lifework of tactical evasion.

One wintry day in 1983, alongside other street sellers in the East Village, David Hammons peddled snowballs of various sizes. He had neatly laid them out in graduated rows and spent the day acting as obliging salesman. He called the evanescent and unannounced street actionBliz-aard Ball Sale, thus inscribing it into a body of work that, from the late 1960s to the present, has used a lexicon of ephemeral actions and self-consciously ""black"" materials to comment on the nature of the artwork, the art world, and race in America.

And althoughBliz-aard Ball Salehas been frequently cited and is increasingly influential, it has long been known only through a mix of eyewitness rumors and a handful of photographs. Its details were as elusive as the artist himself; even its exact date was unrecorded.

Like so much of the artist's work, it wasconceived, it seems, to slip between our fingers-to trouble the grasp of the market, as much as of history and knowability.

In this engaging study, Elena Filipovic collects a vast oral history of the ephemeral action, uncovering rare images and documents, and giving us singular insight into an artist who made an art of making himself difficult to find. And through it, she reveals Bliz-aard Ball Saleto be the backbone of a radical artistic oeuvre that transforms such notions as ""art,"" ""commodity,"" ""performance,"" and even ""race"" into categories that shift and dissolve, much like slowly melting snowballs.

By: Elena Filipovic (Director Kunsthalle Basel)
Imprint: Afterall Publishing
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 216mm, Width: 152mm,
ISBN: 9781846381867
ISBN 10: 184638186X
Series: David Hammons
Pages: 128
Publication Date: 08 September 2017
Recommended Age: From 18 years
Audience: Professional and scholarly , General/trade , Undergraduate , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Elena Filipovic, an art historian, is Director and Chief Curator of Kunsthalle Basel. She is author of The Apparently Marginal Activities of Marcel Duchamp (MIT Press).