{"product_id":"ken-gonzales-day-historys-nevermade-9781835951378","title":"Ken Gonzales-Day: History's \"Nevermade\"","description":"\u003cb\u003eThrough visualizing, absence, and erasure, Ken Gonzales-Day reveals the deeply political act of seeing, forcing us to reconsider the histories we inherit.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Ken Gonzales-Day's work confronts the role of the visual in conveying history or in history's absences, including bodies and spaces deliberately erased, forgotten, or never acknowledged. As illustrated and discussed in \u003ci\u003eKen Gonzales-Day: History's \"Nevermade,\"\u003c\/i\u003e his photography, film, drawing, and painting 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eRethinking History, Collecting Race, Forging Community\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eRedrawing Boundaries\u003c\/i\u003e--explore how his work engages with archives, bodies, museums, and public space to challenge institutional narratives. Through critical analysis and over one hundred full-color images, \u003ci\u003eKen Gonzales-Day: History's \"Nevermade\"\u003c\/i\u003e illuminates the profound political and theoretical stakes of his art. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAmelia Jones\u003c\/b\u003e is the Robert A. Day Professor in critical studies and curatorial studies at the Roski School of Art \u0026amp; Design at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. Recent publications include the catalog \u003ci\u003eQueer Communion: Ron Athey\u003c\/i\u003e, coedited with Andy Campbell, and \u003ci\u003eIn Between Subjects: A Critical Genealogy of Queer Performance\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Intellect (UK)","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51603114230034,"sku":"9781835951378","price":49.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_b3e3074e-50f5-4926-a3cb-7c5d1ed58fc7.jpg?v=1757425275","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/ken-gonzales-day-historys-nevermade-9781835951378","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}