A monograph on the renowned artist, writer and poet of Cherokee descent.

Jimmie Durham is a Cherokee Indian who has been, among other things, a delegate of the International Indian Treaty Council to the United Nations. This book features his poems, prose, drawings, and speeches, giving an overview of his place in his society, world society, time, and history.--Cover.

Provides an in-depth assessment of works included in the exhibition "Knew Urk". This work combines elements of painting with paper, picture frames and stone. It discusses a major public artwork in which a wooden boat is sunk with a 3.5 ton boulder of granite in the River Wear.

The identity of the American West is bound up with a number of different myths arising from European expansion across North America. This exhibition challenges these notions of identity, freedom and politics to represent a contemporary view of this complex subject. The American West presents rarely seen historical and contemporary work loaned from the United States and is programmed to be shown in all the exhibition galleries, in addition to the grounds at Compton Verney. Jimmie Durham, the Curator of the exhibition, is an artist, writer and activist of Cherokee descent. He previously worked for the American Indian Movement as Head of the International Indian Treaty Committee at the United Nations. The exhibition has been jointly curated by Richard William Hill, of Cree heritage and formerly a Curator at the Art Gallery of Ontario. His background is in collecting and exhibiting historical and contemporary Native North American art.

Tiré du site de Book Works: "Jimmie Durham's "My Book, The East London Coelacanth, Sometimes Called, Troubled Waters ; The Story of British Sea-Power" is animated by a distinctive voice - amused, obstinate and exciting our curiosity - that negotiates our and its own worries about what a book ought to contain, in what order and for how long. In this book Durham looks at Englishness - posing the question "who are you?" to the (presumed English) reader. Durham's investigation takes on board the Angles, angling, a fossil fish, East Anglia, and East London, though this is not simply the place where the books itself was published but a town in South Africa, near which a coelacanth was caught in the 1950s. Durham writes that "if I could catch an East London Coelacanth in East London, England, I might somehow be helping resolve some of the residual problems of Anglish Imperialism." Photographs show Durham in various parts of the world, fishing or near water, and at different ages, and some other people with fish. These are accompanied with Durham's conversation-like texts combining to make a book that demands to be read and read again to unravel its riddle."