{"product_id":"spell-time-practice-american-body","title":"RaMell Ross: Spell, Time, Practice, American, Body","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"product__description rte remove-empty-space\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eSpell, Time, Practice, American, Body i\u003c\/em\u003es the highly anticipated first book by artist, filmmaker, and writer RaMell Ross. Bringing together Ross’s large-format photographs, sculptures, conceptual works, and selected films, together with illuminating texts by Ross and a host of writers, this ambitious publication presents a chronicle of the American South that is both mysterious and quotidian, a historical document and a radical imagining of the future.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe book opens with a series of illuminating colour photographs from Hale County, Alabama, Ross’s adoptive home and the setting of his Academy Award-nominated documentary\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eHale County This Morning, This Evening\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e(2018). It then moves through a series of photographic and mixed-media works and writings that examine, deconstruct, and rewrite visual representations of the South.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAmidst these works, at the book’s heart, is Ross’s film\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eReturn to Origin\u003c\/em\u003e, a remarkable conceptual work in which Ross freight ships himself in a 4x8-foot box – a nod to Henry Brown who shipped himself to freedom in 1849. With\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eSpell, Time, Practice, American, Body\u003c\/em\u003e, Ross creates a new visual narrative of the South, freed from its iconic meanings to reveal the earth, dirt, soil, and land beneath. With texts by RaMell Ross, Tracy K. Smith, Richard McCabe, and Scott Matthews.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor(s)\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cspan\u003eRaMell Ross, Tracy K. Smith, Richard McCabe, and Scott Matthews.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e— \u003cbr\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePaperback bound with book screws\u003c\/span\u003e, \u003cspan\u003eMACK\u003c\/span\u003e, 2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e252 p, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e8.89 × 11 in.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"MACK books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":62776058970271,"sku":null,"price":65.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1588\/3167\/files\/SpellTime_cover.webp?v=1776428668","url":"https:\/\/store.studiomuseum.org\/products\/spell-time-practice-american-body","provider":"STUDIO STORE ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}