Kehinde Wiley: The World Stage: Israel

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The latest installment in Wiley’s series imposes the language of old master portraiture onto the ethnicities and ethnic iconography most excluded from Western art.

Kehinde Wiley’s acclaimed World Stage series inserts into the language of old master portraiture the very ethnicities and ethnic iconography that western art has most excluded from it, or that western art has portrayed solely in colonial terms. Among the countries and continents he has previously depicted in this ambitious traveling epic are Brazil, Africa, China, India, and Sri Lanka. The rhetoric of Wiley’s paintings is powerful in its compositional candor, color palette, and playfulness with constructions of visual meaning; as Paul D. Miller (DJ Spooky) notes, “Wiley’s canvas surfaces are a mirror reflection of America’s unceasing search for new meanings from the ruins of the Old World of Europe and Africa.” This volume includes a selection of new World Stage portraits, focusing on contemporary youth from Jewish-Ethiopian-Israeli, Jewish-Israeli, and Arab-Israeli communities.

By Kehinde Wiley with contributions by Ruth Eglash, Claudia J. Nahson, and Shalva Weil
64 pages
Published by Roberts & Tilton, 2012
Hardcover
8.75 x 0.5 x 11.5 inches