Jayson Musson's His History of Art
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Description
His History of Art catalogs Jayson Musson‘s critically-acclaimed three-channel video series developed and exhibited in collaboration with The Fabric Workshop and Museum as part of his residency.
Go behind-the-scenes with never-before-seen photography documenting the show’s making, draft scripts and storyboards, new essays, and an interview with the artist in this hardcover publication.
Hardcover, 150 pages / color
Editor: Sarah Kramer
Designer: Ted Olson
Introduced by Christina Vassallo, the book features essays by art historian Gwendolyn DuBois Shaw and artist Michael Smith, as well as an interview with Musson in conversation with DJ Hellerman and Alec Unkovic.
Edited by DJ Hellerman and Alec Unkovic. Published by The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia on the occasion of Jayson Musson: His History of Art.
ISBN 978-1-7360146-3-9
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Jayson Musson
Jayson Musson is a multi-disciplinary artist whose incisive and often satirical use of materials and media exposes elite attitudes and inequities in both art history and in contemporary culture. His three-part sitcom, His History of Art, employed the use of costumes, puppetry, and set designs.
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Jayson Musson: His History of Art
July 22, 2022–December 31, 2022
Utilizing costuming, props, puppetry, and scenery created in collaboration with the FWM studio team, His History of Art debuts a new three-channel video series written, starred, and co-directed by Musson, who describes it as “a sitcom orbiting art history and all the fun to be had dancing on the minefield of the past.”