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Dawoud Bey and Carrie Mae Weems: In Dialogue at GRAM – Reading List for Adults

The exhibition Dawoud Bey & Carrie Mae Weems: In Dialogue brings together a focused selection of work from a period of over forty years by two of today’s most important and influential photo-based artists. For over five decades, Bey and Weems have explored and addressed similar themes: race, class, representation, and systems of power, creating work that is grounded in specific African American events and realities while simultaneously speaking to universal human conditions. Both Bey and Weems create work in focused series that gives them opportunity to fully explore their complex and layered ideas. The exhibition is arranged in five sections that present the two artists’ work in thematic pairings, emphasizing both their mutual concerns and distinct artistic approaches. Dawoud Bey and Carrie Mae Weems: In Dialogue is on view at the Grand Rapids Art Museum from January 29 – May 1, 2022. This exhibition is organized by the Grand Rapids Art Museum. These titles have been chosen by Grand Rapids Public Library staff to give visitors a chance to dive deeper into the lives of the artists and their fascinating work, explore other artists and authors who have inspired the artists, as well as topics and themes presented in the exhibition.

Grand Rapids Public Library

19 items

  • Streaming Video, 2015[San Francisco, California, USA] : Kanopy Streaming, 2015.
  • To Make Their Own Way in the World

    the Enduring Legacy of the Zealy Daguerreotypes

    Book, 2020Cambridge, MA : Peabody Museum Press ; New York, NY : Aperture, 2020. — 770.973 T55m
  • Hold It Against Me

    Difficulty and Emotion in Contemporary Art

    Doyle, Jennifer
    Book, 2013Durham ; London : Duke University Press, 2013. — 709.051 D775h
  • Oversize Book, 2015Brooklyn, New York : powerHouse Books, 2015. — Oversize 779.477434 J767d
  • Dawoud Bey

    Two American Projects

    Bey, Dawoud, 1953-
    Book, 2020San Francisco : San Francisco Museum of Modern Art ; New Haven : Yale University Press, [2020] — 779.092 B468d
  • Dawoud Bey

    Seeing Deeply / Dawoud Bey

    Bey, Dawoud, 1953-
    Oversize Book, 2018Austin : University of Texas Press, 2018. — Oversize 779.2 B468d
  • Book, 1981[Carmel, Calif.] : Friends of Photography ; [Providence, R.I.] : Distributed by Matrix Publications, c1981. — 779.092 D355 AL4
  • Book, 1996New York : Museum of Modern Art : Distributed by H.N. Abrams, c1996. — 779.092 D355 G1 : 7/96
  • Reflections in Black

    a History of Black Photographers, 1840 to the Present

    Willis, Deborah, 1948-
    Book, 2000New York : W.W. Norton, c2000. — 770.8996 W679r
  • Mounting Frustration

    the Art Museum in the Age of Black Power

    Cahan, Susan,
    Book, 2016Durham : Duke University Press, 2016. — 704.0396 C119m
  • Working Together

    Louis Draper and the Kamoinge Workshop

    Eckhardt, Sarah L.,
    Oversize Book, 2020Richmond, VA : Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, [2020] — Oversize 770.922 Ec57w