Gaines, Malik
[Author];
Chrisman-Campbell, Kimberly
[Author]
;
Wiley, Kehinde
[Illustrator];
McCurdy, Melinda
[Editor]Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery,
Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery
Footnote:
Impressum: Published in conjunction with the exhibition "Kehinde Wiley: A Portrait of a Young Gentleman", organized by the Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens
Description:
Twenty-First-Century Blue Boy / Melinda McCurdy -- Overrepresented : In Which L.A. Blue Boy Visits San Marino, a City Named After Europe's Oldest Sovereign State, Situated on a Tongva Village / Malik Gaines -- "A Van Dyke Habit" : Dressing Blue Boy / Kimberly Chrisman-Campbell.
Malik Gaines investigates the artist's post-modern strategy of inserting Black subjects into canonical European settings. Kimberly Chrisman-Campbell situates Wiley's work within the traditions and trappings of grand manner eighteenth-century portraiture