Colored people : a collaborative book project

Creator

Piper, Adrian, 1948-

Date

• 1991

Publisher

[London, England]: Book Works

Summary

• COLOPHON "ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Adrian Piper and Book Works would like to thank all those who collaborated on this project, Susanna Singer for her work in seeing the project through, the John Weber Gallery for the support, Mike West, Preston Lawrence, John Robertson and Bernard DeMartini of Campbell Photo and Printing Service, Inc. for the printing and production of the book and John Cole for advising on the design.
• We would also like to thank the Arts Council of Great Britain, Greater London Arts, Awards in the Visual Arts (AVA) and the Washington Project for the Arts for their funding support.
• Printed and bound by Campbell Photo and Printing Service, Inc. Washington DC, USA
• Distributed by Book Works
• Photographs of Howardena Pindell by Janet Henry.
• Photographs of Sam Gilliam by Carol Harrison."
• Consists of images of 16 people with crayon "colored" faces. Particpants: Houston Conwill, Kinshasha Conwill, Jane Farver, David Frankel, Sam Gilliam, Kellie Jones, Lucy Lippard, Rosemary Mayer, John Moore, John Morita, Clive Phillpot, Howardena Pindell, Lowery Sims, Kaylynn Sullivan, Judith Wilson, Josephine Winters.
• "This project was compiled and produced as an artist's book mock-up in 1987 for the travelling exhibition Coast to Coast: Women of Color National Artists' Book Project." -- [p.5]
• An edition of 1000
• From Book Work's website: “Tickled pink. Scarlet with embarrassment. Purple with anger. Blue. Green with envy. Jaundiced yellow. White with fear. Black depression.” Adrian Piper’s book is a collaboration with sixteen people who were asked to cut out these ‘metaphorical moods’ and record them as photographs which Piper then took responsibility for sorting, depending on her response to the expressions. According to Piper, the book “was intended as a light-hearted conceptual gesture with serious implications”. Colored People is a project that attempts to deal with two aspects of prejudgement; those made about others and those made about art that is delimited as political as a method of containment of what else it may be about, how richly politics may be defined.
• Not signed
• Unnumbered.