Nick Cave: Forothermore - by Naomi Beckwith (Hardcover)

Book Synopsis

With a wealth of images and commentary, this is the essential career survey of Cave's socially responsive art

Published with Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago.

The definitive volume on the ever-evolving and shape-shifting work of the Chicago-based artist, Nick Cave: Forothermore highlights the way Cave's practice has shifted and continues to shift in response to our history and current moment of cultural crisis. Including several new, never-before-seen works, the book shows an artist at the height of his power.
Addressing topics ranging from art history to social justice, Nick Cave: Forothermore includes essays from Naomi Beckwith, Romi Crawford, Antwaun Sargent, Malik Gaines, Krista Thompson and Meida Teresa McNeal. Punctuating these contributions are interviews with the artist exploring his life, work and teaching practice, as well as a roundtable discussion between Cave and dancer Damita Jo Freeman, musician Nona Hendryx and publisher Linda Johnson Rice on Cave's art and influences, as well as pivotal cultural phenomena from Soul Train to Ebony magazine. Nick Cave: Forothermore reveals the way art, music, fashion and performance can help us envision a more just future.
Nick Cave (born 1959) is an artist and educator working between the visual and performing arts through a wide range of mediums, including sculpture, installation, video, sound and performance. Cave is well known for his Soundsuits, sculptural forms based on the scale of his body, initially created in direct response to the police beating of Rodney King in 1991. Cave has had major exhibitions at MASS MoCA (2016), Cranbrook Art Museum (2015), Saint Louis Art Museum (2014-15), ICA Boston (2014), Denver Art Museum (2013), Seattle Art Museum (2011) and the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (2009), among others. Cave lives and works in Chicago.

Review Quotes

This book shows what a tour de force of originality he is, and it also absolutely forces you to think.--Gina Mayfield "Dallas Morning News"

Achieves a paradoxical tone of elegiac flamboyance in his work, confronting the spectre of anti-Black brutality with glittering feats of assemblage and couturier-level craft.--Johanna Fateman "New Yorker"

With explosions of color and materiality, Cave has his own enigmatic ways to funnel the funk through histories of adversity.--Debra Brehmer "Hyperallergic"

His hundreds of subsequent Soundsuits, which produce a cacophony of noise when combined with movement, contain infinite contradictions: obfuscation and hypervisibility, refuge and escape--somber reminders of injustice and joyful imaginings of a more utopic future.--Madison Reid "Vanity Fair"