David Lee Hammon

David Hamms

David Gaylordian Hammons (born 1943) is an American artist especially known for his works in and around New York City and Los Angeles during the 1970s...

Krys and Cinder

A girl and her horse try to escape post-apocalyptic Mars. This science fiction adventure novel takes a young girl on a journey of survival and self-awareness as she both leads and relies upon the companions she makes to escape those who want to destroy all that Mars’s colonization attempted to accom...

David Hammons in the Hood

The Bean Straw: The Chicken Factor

"The Chicken Factor" is the second book of the comic strip "The Bean Straw!" In addition to the 41 hilarious cartoons, this second book also contains 400+ funny tweets the author has published on his twitter account @TheBeanStraw. There are no particular characters or settings. All the toons and twe...

David Hammons, Maria Magdalena Campos-pons, Pamela Z.: Three Artists, Three Projects, Dakar Biennale: Diaspora, Memory, Place

A fascinating presentation and an in-depth analysis of the three of the most exciting African diaspora artists of our time.Originally conceived for Dak art the biennial of contemporary African art the three site-specific projects profiled in this book strive to communicate notions of racial stereoty...

The Bean Straw: Non-Flying Objects

This is a cartoon book with 125 single panel illustrations of the strange and fanciful. You will see the mundane twisted into the quirky; the rational gives way to the hypothetical: What if Dracula bit a bear? What would a cat prefer for a scratching post? What happens if you have an apple-shaped he...

David Hammons/Yves Klein Yves Klein/David Hammons

This volume offers a compelling examination of the surprising conceptual and visual correspondences between the works of these two pivotal artists known for their innovative practices. Klein (1928-1962) was a major figure in postwar art who opened up new possibilities for material, conceptual and pe...

David Hammons: Rousing the Rubble

Essays by Steve Cannon, Tom Finkelpearl, and Kellie Jones Photographs by Dawoud Bey and Bruce Talamon Rousing the Rubble celebrates two decades of work by artist David Hammons, who has risen to prominence while at the same time consciously ducking the attention of critics, galleries, and museums, p...

L.A. Object & David Hammons Body Prints

L.A. Object offers a historical overview of the Los Angeles assemblage movement of the 1960s and 70s. It focuses on works by primarily African-American artists often omitted from mainstream gallery and museum historical exhibitions who were working during the civil rights movement, the 1965 Watts ri...