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Bernadette Mayer: Memory
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  • Bernadette Mayer: Memory
  • Bernadette Mayer: Memory
  • Bernadette Mayer: Memory
  • Bernadette Mayer: Memory
  • Bernadette Mayer: Memory
  • Bernadette Mayer: Memory
  • Bernadette Mayer: Memory
  • Bernadette Mayer: Memory
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Bernadette Mayer: Memory

Bernadette Mayer: Memory
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ISBN 9781938221255. siglio. hb. 332 pages, 1155 ills. 18.4 x 25.4 cm.

In July 1971, Bernadette Mayer embarked on an experiment: for one month she shot a roll of 35mm film each day and kept a journal. The result was a conceptual work that investigates the nature of memory, its surfaces, textures and material. This publication brings together the full sequence of images and text for the first time in book form, making space for a work that has been legendary but mostly invisible.
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ISBN 9781938221255. siglio. hb. 332 pages, 1155 ills. 18.4 x 25.4 cm.

In July 1971, Bernadette Mayer embarked on an experiment: for one month she shot a roll of 35mm film each day and kept a journal. The result was a conceptual work that investigates the nature of memory, its surfaces, textures and material. This publication brings together the full sequence of images and text for the first time in book form, making space for a work that has been legendary but mostly invisible.

This volume unpacks the cultural legacy of musician, spiritual leader, wife and mother Alice Coltrane. Accompanying the eponymous exhibition at Los Angeles’ Hammer Museum, the book takes its title from Coltrane’s 1977 autobiography and devotional text, Monument Eternal, in which she reflected on her newfound spiritual beliefs and the path to healing and self-discovery. Coltrane was "ahead of her time," as her son, saxophonist Ravi Coltrane, says: she was "one of the first people to move outside the mainstream, and certainly one of the first female, Black, American jazz musicians to record her own music in her own studio, and to release music on her own terms."

Alice Coltrane, Monument Eternal explores themes including spiritual transcendence, sonic innovation and architectural intimacy. The project juxtaposes works from 19 contemporary American artists with pieces of ephemera from Coltrane’s archive―including handwritten sheet music, unreleased audio recordings and rarely seen footage―to honor her cultural output and practice.