{"product_id":"yinka-shonibare-mbe","title":"Yinka Shonibare MBE","description":"\u003cp\u003eShonibare employs a wide range of media - sculpture  painting  photography  video  and installation pieces - to explore matters of race  class  cultural identity  and history. The artist is best-known for his use of a Dutch-wax fabric  which  though labeled as \"African \" actually originated in Dutch Indonesia and was introduced to Africa by British manufacturers via Dutch colonizers in the nineteenth century. Incorporating the fabric into Victorian dresses  covering sculptures of alien figures with it or stretching it onto canvases  Shonibare uses the fabric as a metaphor to address issues of origin and authenticity. Published as a companion to Shonibares first retrospective at the Museum of Contemporary Art  Sydney  Australia  and the Brooklyn Museum of Art  New York  this survey explores all aspects of Shonibares work  offering a fully comprehensive portrait of his projects. Whether he is lampooning Victorian propriety or commenting on the latent ambiguities of the term \"alien \" Shonibare makes art.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44984634015797,"sku":"ByrdShop_3791341235","price":46.56,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9783791341231.jpg?v=1770840094","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/yinka-shonibare-mbe","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}