| LC control no. | n 91112683 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Hammons, David, 1943- |
| Associated country | United States |
| Birth date | 1943 |
| Place of birth | Springfield (Ill.) |
| Field of activity | Installations (Art) |
| Profession or occupation | Sculptors Printmakers |
| Found in | His Rousing the rubble, c1991: t.p. (David Hammons) LC data base, 11-5-91 (hdg.: Hammons, David, 1943- ) Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience, Second Edition, accessed April 22, 2015, via Oxford African American Studies Center database: (Hammons, David; installation artist, sculptor, printmaker; born 1943 in Springfield, Illinois, United States; studied art in Los Angeles (1964-1972); started forging sculptures from materials he collected on the street (1975); installed his famous Basketball series, Higher Goals, in vacant lots in New York City (1980s); known for a controversial work called How Ya Like Me Now? (1988); exhibited frequently in Europe: Real Time (Warsaw, Poland, 2000) and Concerto in Black and Blue (New York City, 2002); received a Rome Prize for Sculpture (1989) and a MacArthur Foundation grant (1991)) |
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