This book features Jimmie Durham’s poems, prose, drawings, and speeches, giving an overview of his place in his society, world society, time, and history.
”The mystical drawings complement these hard-edged, lyric, bitter, humorous and always honest poems, which at their best are, as the writer intended, ‘as eloquent as the sound of a rattlesnake.’”—Peter Matthiessen

Columbus Day

Literature & Fiction

Durham, Jimmie

Poetry

West End Press

Juan Franciso Elso

Weiss, Rachel

Fusco, Coco

Viso, Olga

Moreno, Gean

Hernández, Orlando

Matamoros, Corina

Gómez, Fernando

Medina, Cuahtemoc

James, Erica Moiah

Iturbide, Gabriela

Tellez, Javier

Lara, Magali

Suter, Gerardo

Miami : [NAME] Publications

This artist book is a companion to the exhibition Jimmie Durham: Knew Urk, held at the Walter Phillips Gallery, Banff (November 12, 2005 - March 26, 2006). The book is written in Durhams unique style, complete with original illustrations. Berlin-based, Durham, of Cherokee heritage, was active in the American Indian Movement throughout the 1970s and early 1980s. His work has been exhibited widely at venues including the Venice Biennale; Whitney Biennial, Matts Gallery, London; Documenta; DAAD Gallery, Berlin; and the Institute of Contemporary Art, London. Second Particle Wave Theory is co-produced with the Reg Vardy Gallery, University of Sunderland.

Second Particle Wave Theory: (As Performed on the Banks of the River Wear, a Stone's Throw from S'underland and the Durham Cathedral)

Arts & Photography

Banff Centre Pr

Jimmie Durham (b. 1940) is an internationally acclaimed artist, writer and poet of Cherokee descent. His intricate sculptures and installations mimic the attributes of human beings and animals, and the ways they make or are made into history. Durham collages discarded objects and fragments of organic matter, transforming them with dazzling colour into startling, anthropomorphic configurations. His ersatz ethnographic displays deliver ironic assaults on the colonizing procedures of Western culture. An activist in the American Indian movement during the 1970s, he has also published poetry, fiction and critical theory. Featured at Documenta 9 (1992), his work has also been exhibited at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, and the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London.  The Survey by British film and art critic Laura Mulvey, author of 'Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema' and other influential essays, explores themes of history and language, space and time in Durham's work. Belgian curator Dirk Snauwaert talks with the artist about his multi-faceted practice. In the Focus, Mark Alice Durant, US performance artist and writer, analyses Durham's diary of Shakespeare's Caliban. For Artist's Choice, Durham has selected texts by Italo Calvino about the loss of speach and the poetry of the invisible. Artist's Writings include essays, poems and a screenplay published here for the first time.

Jimmie Durham

Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther Konig,Germany

Durham's primary format is storytelling, central to which is the ability to communicate experience. Edited by Jean Fisher, Selected Writing is the second, long-awaited collection of the artist's texts, produced and released in a twenty-year span. If the forms of address in the texts aim for simplicity, the use of language-peppered with puns and neologisms and digressions into multilingual etymologies-demonstrates a complexity that persistently defers our demand for easy interpretation. As Durham frequently implies, his subversion of textual logic is intended to liberate words as material from their entrapment in thoughtless conventions (blind belief), just as his play with found materials is intended to free art from its capture in the deathly inertia of monumentalism-its connection to architexture.

Jimmie Durham: Waiting to be Interrupted. Selected Writings 1993 - 2012

Kreuger, Anders

Mousse Publishing

Internationally known in the 1980s for the colorful, pseudo-ethnographic objects and installations in which he wittily attacked Western colonizing tendencies, Jimmie Durham's more recent work has been underrepresented. Since the artist settled in Europe in 1994, he has been producing startling bricolages, objects and installations, a retrospective of which will be exhibited over the course of this year. This richly illustrated monograph forms a logbook of Durham's production since that trans-Atlantic move.

Jimmie Durham: Report From East Atlantic

Christov-Bakargiev, Carolyn

Champesme, Marie Therese

Coessens, Piet

Individual Artists

Artimo

See the best price to sell, buy, or rent books by Durham, Jimmie. BookScouter helps to compare book prices from 25+ online bookstores and 30+ buyback vendors with a single search.

Books by Durham, Jimmie