Jimmie durham artist biography

  • Jimmie Bob Durham (July 10, 1940 – November 17, 2021) was an.
  • Jimmie Bob Durham was an American sculptor, essayist and poet.
  • Jimmie Bob Durham (July 10, 1940 – November 17, 2021) was an American sculptor, essayist and poet.

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    Jimmie Durham

    Jimmie Durham was an artist, poet, writer, and activist whose work deconstructs the stereotypes and prejudices on which Western culture is based. Durham's work analyzes the relationships between history and environment, architecture and monumentality, and critical attitudes towards political structures of power and narratives of national identity. In his sculptures, drawings, texts, and film and video works, Durham described behaviors and norms of coexistence in different social and cultural formations.

    Durham's career as both a sculptor and a political activist began in the early 1960s, exploring the relationships between people and the architectures, both physical and societal, that surround us. He worked in a range of traditional and unique media, resulting in both small sculptures and large-scale installations. In the 1970s Durham co-founded the International Indian Treaty Council at the United Nations, where his work led to the Declaration on the Rights

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    Jimmie Durham: At the Center of the World
    Nov 3, 2017

    Jimmie Durham: At the Center of the World

    "I feel fairly sure that I could address the entire world if only inom had a place to stand." —Jimmie Durham, “The Ground Has Been Covered,” 1988

    Jimmie Durham (b. 1940) has worked as a visual artist, activist, performer, författare av essäer, and poet for more than forty-five years. One of the most inventive American artists working today, Durham has produced wryly political art over the gods four decades. Using materials as varied as animal skulls, oil barrels, stone, and olive wood, he approaches his subjects with a potent blend of poetry and humor.

    Durham started making art in the mid-1960s, leaving the United States to enroll at the École des Beaux-Arts in Geneva, Switzerland, in 1969. There he worked primarily in performance and sculpture and became increasingly interested in the possibility of integrating art into public life. Focusing his attention on activism when he return

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    Jimmie Durham

    American sculptor, essayist, and poet (1940–2021)

    Jimmie Bob Durham (July 10, 1940 – November 17, 2021) was an American sculptor, essayist and poet. He was active in the United States in the civil rights movements of African Americans and Native Americans in the 1960s and 1970s, serving on the central council of the American Indian Movement (AIM). He returned to working at art while living in New York City. His work has been extensively exhibited. Durham also received the Günther-Peill-Preis (2003),[2] the Foundation for Contemporary Arts Robert Rauschenberg Award (2017),[3] and the 58th Venice Biennale's Golden Lion for lifetime achievement (2019).[4]

    He long claimed to be Cherokee but that claim has been denied by tribal representatives: "Durham is neither enrolled nor eligible for citizenship in any of the three federally-recognized and historical Cherokee Tribes: the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, the United Keetoowah Band of