{"product_id":"michael-in-black-by-nicole-miller","title":"Michael in Black by Nicole Miller","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eMichael in Black by Nicole Miller\u003c\/em\u003e focuses on a single sculptural work by artist and filmmaker Nicole Miller: \u003cem\u003eMichael in Black\u003c\/em\u003e (2018), a bronze cast of Michael Jackson’s kneeling figure, poured from a mold made directly from his body circa 1987. This charged object comprises myriad aspects of performance, celebrity, and image: the objecthood of the performer, the potency and perversity of objects, death, grief, and editing. This sculpture is an outlier in Nicole Miller’s largely video and installation-centered work, though it excavates some concerns she has similarly articulated in moving image: her recurring interest in the self- performance of her film subjects; the dehumanizing effects of the mass gaze; the celebrity as a host object for contemporary projections; the tactility of film; the sculptural qualities of editing; and the potential for self- storytelling to reconstitute an individual’s wholeness.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe publication coalesces images of Miller’s work alongside newly commissioned texts and visual artworks by a cast of other artists and writers, as well as republished texts and existing artwork recontextualized through the publication’s subject.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"page\" title=\"Page 1\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"layoutArea\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"column\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eMichael in Black by Nicole Miller\u003c\/em\u003e features new texts byNegar Azimi, Hannah Black, Jared Sexton, and Greg Tate; republished texts by Pier Paolo Pasolini, Anna Deavere Smith, and Ocean Vuong; interviews with Dr. Yvonne Cagle, Alonzo King, Nicole Miller, and Bradford Young; artworks by Nikita Gale, Kazu Hiro, Ligia Lewis, and Jasper Marsalis; as well as additional plates by Lutz Bacher, Manuel Álvarez Bravo, Todd Gray, Lyle Ashton Harris, Arthur Jafa, Deana Lawson, Herman Makkink, A. Michael Noll, Heji Shin, and others. [publishers’ note]\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Public Fiction,CARA","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57357807911252,"sku":"A8B-30883","price":26.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1072\/9609\/6596\/files\/Scan_20220705_190834.jpg?v=1790813033","url":"https:\/\/after8books.com\/products\/michael-in-black-by-nicole-miller","provider":"After 8 Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}