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- ISBN 9781835951378
- Dimensions: 170 x 240mm
- Publication Date: 04 Aug 2025
- Publisher: Intellect
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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Ken Gonzales-Day’s work confronts the role of the visual in conveying history or in history’s absences, including those bodies and spaces deliberately erased, forgotten or never acknowledged. As illustrated and discussed in Ken Gonzales-Day: History’s "Nevermade", his photography, films, drawings and paintings interrogate race and power, questioning how bodies are seen, rendered or made invisible. His art moves between presence and absence, compelling viewers to confront their own position in relation to systems of oppression and representation.
This volume, accompanying the exhibition of the same name, offers the first comprehensive study of Gonzales-Day’s practice. Organized around his major series, sections of the book – including ‘Rethinking History’, ‘Collecting Race’, ‘Forging Community’, and ‘Redrawing Boundaries’ – explore how his work engages with archives, bodies, museums and public space to challenge institutional narratives. Through critical analysis and illustrated throughout, Ken Gonzales-Day: History’s "Nevermade" illuminates the profound political and theoretical stakes of his art.
Essential reading for students, scholars, and practitioners in art history, photography, museum studies, American history and decolonial and queer studies, this book is a testament to the power of art to reckon with the past and imagine new futures.
Amelia Jones is Robert A. Day professor and vice dean at Roski School of Art & Design, USC, Los Angeles, USA. Recent publications include the catalogue Queer Communion: Ron Athey (2020), co-edited with Andy Campbell (accompanying a retrospective of Athey’s work, which she curated); and In Between Subjects: A Critical Genealogy of Queer Performance (2021).
