David Hammons: Day's End [Hardcover]

An in-depth look at a public art project by David Hammons with an overview of the enigmatic artist’s career
 
Published to commemorate David Hammons’s (b. 1943) public art projectDay’s End, located in New York City, this book documents the sculpture and offers broader context into Hammons’s enigmatic work. In 2014, Hammons sent the Whitney Museum of American Art a sketch for a monument to Gordon Matta-Clark (1943–1978), paying homage to Matta-Clark’s legendaryDay’s End(1975)—an industrial, cathedral-like space of altered architecture—once located near today’s Whitney in Manhattan’s Meatpacking District. Completed in 2021, Hammons’s work, also titledDay’s End, was realized by the Whitney in collaboration with Hudson River Park, and is on permanent view. One of the most important artists working in the United States, Hammons makes art across mediums, often outside traditional venues. In addition to photographic documentation, the book includes essays on the origins ofDay’s End, Hammons’s career scope, and a contribution by poet Ben Okri.

Distributed for the Whitney Museum of American ArtAn in-depth look at a public art project by David Hammons with an overview of the enigmatic artist’s careerAdam D. Weinbergis Alice Pratt Brown Director at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.Kellie E. Jonesis Hans Hofmann Professor of Modern Art at Columbia University, New York.Guy Nordensonis a structural engineer and professor of architecture and structural engineering at Princeton University.Ben Okriis a poet, essayist, short story writer, and Booker Prize–winning novelist based in London.
 Artist David Hammons’s public art projectDay’s Endis documented in this new publication from the Whitney Museum of American Art, which also examines this singular artistl#Æ