David Hammons

Born, 1943 in USA

David Hammons’ ‘Injustice Case’ 1970 was reproduced in Keith Piper’s ‘Relocating the Remains’ catalogue, the main text of which was written by Kobena Mercer. The chapter in which Hammons’ work appears is ‘Art’s Histories and Culture’s Geographies: 1979 - 1985’.

Two of Hammons’ pieces, Hair Pyramid, 1976, and How Ya Like Me Now? 1988, were reproduced in Mercer’s chapter in his book Pop Art and Vernacular Cultures (2007). The book was edited by Kobena Mercer and was one of four books (all edited by Mercer) in a series titled Annotating Art’s Histories, jointly published by The MIT Press, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts and Iniva the Institute of International Visual Arts, London. The chapter in question (in Pop Art and Vernacular Cultures) was Tropes of the Grotesque in the Black Avant-Garde.

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