Hew Locke Here's The Thing

Exhibition catalogue in conjunction with the exhibition Hew Locke: Here's the Thing Softcover Co-published by Ikon Gallery, Birmingham; Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, Missouri; and Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, Maine.Language: EnglishISBN-13: 978-1911155218Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 0.6 x 11.2 inches 120 Color Pages Forward written by Jonathan Watkins Essays by Richard Drayton and Diana Tuite   This is the most comprehensive exhibition to date of work by Hew Locke. Since his emergence as an artist in the 1980s, he has been remarkably consistent in his preoccupation with the languages of colonial and post-colonial power, and the symbols through which different cultures assume and assert identity. He appropriates coates-of-arms and trophies, weaponry, naval warships and the costumes and regalia of state in a subtle critique of governmental authority, its iconographies and legacies. His ability to fuse historical sources with his own political concerns, either t