Adam Pendleton

This survey monograph, published in Phaidon's Contemporary Artists series, traces Adam Pendleton's practice of painting, silkscreen, collage, video, and performance built around the recontextualization of language and appropriated historical imagery.

The 160-page volume reproduces Pendleton's black-and-white "Black Dada" paintings and text works alongside his video and installation pieces, with essays by curator Adrienne Edwards, film critic Andrea Picard, and writer Alec Mapes-Frances situating the work within conceptual art, the Black avant-garde, and appropriation practice.

Pendleton (b. 1984) has shown at MoMA, the Whitney, the New Museum, and the Palais de Tokyo, and represented a generation of artists using text and archival imagery to interrogate history and identity; he splits his time between New York City and Germantown, New York. This monograph arrived as his practice moved from gallery and museum installations toward major public commissions, cementing language and appropriation as the through-line of two decades of work.