{"product_id":"cauleen-smith-give-it-or-leave-it","title":"Cauleen Smith: Give It or Leave It","description":"A multimedia portrait of four famed utopian sites celebrating a Black, spiritual America\n\nThrough films, objects, and installation, Chicago-based filmmaker Cauleen Smith (born 1967) offers an emotional axis by which to navigate four distinct universes: Alice Coltrane and her Sai Anantam ashram; a 1966 photo shoot by Bill Ray at Simon Rodia's Watts Towers in Los Angeles; Noah Purifoy and his desert assemblages in Joshua Tree; and black spiritualist Rebecca Cox Jackson and her Shaker community in 19th-century Philadelphia.\n\nThese locations, while not technically utopian societies, embody sites of historical speculation and radical generosity between artist and community. In reimagining a future through this mix, Smith casts a world that is black, feminist, spiritual and unabashedly alive.\n\nThis volume, wrapped in a frosted and foil-stamped dust jacket, contains full-color photographs of the multi-room installation and provides further insight into Smith's creative process and myriad influences through two interviews and a manifesto written by the artist.","brand":"University of Pennsylvania,Institute of Contemporary Art","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":32136631091283,"sku":"","price":33.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9780884541462.jpg?v=1779428748","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/cauleen-smith-give-it-or-leave-it","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}