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This is the first volume to document and contextualize Sonya
Clark’s large-scale, collaborative artworks. These projects
demonstrate Clark’s career-long commitment to addressing the
urgent issue of racial inequality in American society and her
philosophy of creatively engaging the viewer in reflection on the
nation’s history of slavery and our roles in dismantling systemic
racism today. As an extension of her abiding commitment to issues
of history, race, and reconciliation in her work, Clark is also
distinctive as an artist for her use of textiles and other everyday
materials, which she aligns with the intertwined histories of art
and craft. For marginalized people (African Americans and women, in
particular) handwork has been essential to survival and
consequently has functioned, and continues to function, as an
important means of creating a group identity. Hence, for Clark,
craft is essential to the question of equality.
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Terry Adkins: Resounding (Hardcover)
Terry Adkins; Edited by Stephanie Weissberg; Text written by Clifford Owens, Lowery Stokes Sims
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R1,175
R970
Discovery Miles 9 700
Save R205 (17%)
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Robert Colescott (1925-2009) was a trailblazing artist, whose
august career was as unique as his singular artistic style. Known
for figurative satirical paintings that exposed the ugly ironies of
race in America from the 1970s through the late 1990s, his work was
profoundly influential to the generations of artists that have
followed him, such as Kara Walker, Kehinde Wiley, and Henry Taylor,
among many others. This volume surveys the entirety of Colescott s
body of work, with contributions by more than ten curators and
writers, including a substantive essay by the show s cocurator, the
renowned Lowery Stokes Sims. It provides a detailed stylistic
analysis of his politically inflected oeuvre, focusing on Colescott
s own consideration of his work in the context of the grand
traditions of European painting and contemporary polemic. In
addition, the book features reminiscences and thought pieces by a
variety of family, friends, students, curators, dealers, and
scholars on his work as well as a selection of writings by the
artist himself. Relying on previously unpublished transcripts of
lectures, reviews, and archival materials provided by institutions
and individuals, the book will provide a fuller story of the artist
s life and career.
The story of African Americans in the visual arts has closely
paralleled their social, political and economic aspirations over
the last four hundred years. From enslaved craftspersons to
contemporary painters, printmakers and sculptors, they have created
a wealth of artistic expression that addresses common experiences,
such as exclusion from dominant cultural institutions, and
confronts questions of identity and community. This generously
illustrated volume gathers works by leading figures from the
nineteenth century to the present - Henry Ossawa Tanner, Jacob
Lawrence, Romare Bearden, Lois Mailou Jones, Gordon Parks, Wifredo
Lam, Kara Walker, Glenn Ligon, Kerry James Marshall - alongside
many others who deserve to be better known, including artists from
the African diaspora in South America and the Caribbean. Arranged
thematically and accompanied by authoritative texts that provide
historical and interpretive context, this book invites readers to
share in a rich outpouring of art that meets shared challenges with
individual creative responses.
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