Barkley L. Hendricks: Birth of the Cool

Book Overview

Barkley L. Hendricks: Birth of the Cool accompanies the first career retrospective of the renowned American artist Barkley L. Hendricks. Hendricks was born in 1945 in Philadelphia. His unique work contains elements of both American realism and postmodernism, occupying a space between the portraitists Chuck Close and Alex Katz and the pioneering black conceptualists David Hammons and Adrian Piper. Hendricks is best known for his life-sized portraits...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0938989316
• ISBN13: 9780938989318
• Release Date: February 2008
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 140 Pages
• Weight: 2.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 9.0" x 11.0"