{"product_id":"9780884541462","title":"Cauleen Smith: Give It or Leave It","description":"\u003cp\u003eA multimedia portrait of four famed utopian sites celebrating a Black, spiritual America\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThrough films, objects, and installation, Chicago-based filmmaker Cauleen Smith (born 1967) offers an emotional axis by which to navigate four distinct universes: Alice Coltrane and her Sai Anantam ashram; a 1966 photo shoot by Bill Ray at Simon Rodia's Watts Towers in Los Angeles; Noah Purifoy and his desert assemblages in Joshua Tree; and black spiritualist Rebecca Cox Jackson and her Shaker community in 19th-century Philadelphia.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThese locations, while not technically utopian societies, embody sites of historical speculation and radical generosity between artist and community. In reimagining a future through this mix, Smith casts a world that is black, feminist, spiritual and unabashedly alive.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis volume, wrapped in a frosted and foil-stamped dust jacket, contains full-color photographs of the multi-room installation and provides further insight into Smith's creative process and myriad influences through two interviews and a manifesto written by the artist.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Pennsylvania,Institute of Contemporary Art","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45397745172559,"sku":"00000_00000_00000_00000","price":1050.0,"currency_code":"TWD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/kinokuniya.com.tw\/products\/9780884541462","provider":"Books Kinokuniya Taiwan","version":"1.0","type":"link"}