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Collects over 150 years of key moments in the visual history of the
Southern United States, with over two hundred photographs taken
from 1850 to present The South is perhaps the most mythologized
region in the United States and also one of the most depicted.
Since the dawn of photography in the nineteenth century,
photographers have articulated the distinct and evolving character
of the South’s people, landscape, and culture and reckoned with
its fraught history. Indeed, many of the urgent questions we face
today about what defines the American experience—from racism,
poverty, and the legacy of slavery to environmental disaster,
immigration, and the changes wrought by a modern, global
economy—appear as key themes in the photography of the South. The
visual history of the South is inextricably intertwined with the
history of photography and also the history of America, and is
therefore an apt lens through which to examine American identity. A
Long Arc: Photography and the American South accompanies a major
exhibition at the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, with more than one
hundred photographers represented, including Walker Evans, Robert
Frank, Gordon Parks, William Eggleston, Sally Mann, Carrie Mae
Weems, Dawoud Bey, Alec Soth, and An-My Lê. Insightful texts by
Imani Perry, Sarah Kennel, Makeda Best, and Rahim Fortune, among
others, illuminate this broad survey of photographs of the Southern
United States as an essential American story. Copublished by
Aperture and High Museum of Art, Atlanta
A richly illustrated look at how travel influenced the work of
renowned contemporary artist Betye Saar Betye Saar (b. 1926) is an
artist whose assemblages tell visual stories and convey powerful
political messages. A leading figure of the Black Arts Movement in
the 1970s, she works with found objects-many of which she gathers
on her extensive travels-to explore themes like symbolic mysticism,
feminism, racism, and Eurocentric chauvinism. Betye Saar: Heart of
a Wanderer sheds new light on Saar's unique creative process, her
trips around the world, and the diverse ways in which her artworks
engage with global histories of travel and forced migration. It
presents how the artist's work conjures the transporting experience
of a voyage to a faraway place. This beautifully illustrated book
draws on original, in-depth interviews with Saar and the companions
who accompanied the artist in her travels across four continents
over several decades. Essays by leading scholars contextualize
Saar's journeys within her broader life and career, as well as how
her practice fits into broader traditions-such as scrapbooking-in
African American visual culture. In addition to providing this
context, this book explores how Saar's assemblage practice both
echoes and provides a critical counterpoint to the collecting
practices of Gilded Age American art collectors like Isabella
Stewart Gardner. Featuring a wealth of previously unpublished
material-including almost thirty travel sketchbooks and two dozen
finished assemblages-Betye Saar: Heart of a Wanderer provides a
fresh look at a groundbreaking American artist while offering a
timely social history of the impact of travel on the African
American experience. Distributed for the Isabella Stewart Gardner
Museum Exhibition Schedule Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
February 16-May 21, 2023
Alexander Gardner is best known for his innovative photographic
history of the Civil War. What is less known is the extent to which
he was involved in the international workers’ rights movement.
Tying Gardner’s photographic storytelling to his transatlantic
reform activities, this book expands our understanding of
Gardner’s career and the work of his studio in Washington, DC, by
situating his photographic production within the era’s discourse
on social and political reform. Drawing on previously unknown
primary sources and original close readings, Makeda Best reveals
how Gardner’s activism in Scotland and photography in the United
States shared an ideological foundation. She reads his Photographic
Sketch Book of the War as a politically motivated project, rooted
in Gardner’s Chartist and Owenite beliefs, and illuminates how
its treatment of slavery is primarily concerned with the harm that
the institution posed to the United States’ reputation as a model
democracy. Best shows how, in his portraiture, Gardner celebrated
Northern labor communities and elevated white immigrant workers,
despite the industrialization that degraded them. She concludes
with a discussion of Gardner’s promotion of an American national
infrastructure in which photographers and photography played an
integral role. Original and compelling, this reconsideration of
Gardner’s work expands the contribution of Civil War photography
beyond the immediate narrative of the war to comprehend its
relation to the vigorous international debates about democracy,
industrialization, and the rights of citizens. Scholars working at
the intersection of photography, cultural history, and social
reform in the nineteenth century on both sides of the Atlantic will
find Best’s work invaluable to their own research.
Tracing the impacts of militarism on the American landscape,
through the lens of art, environmental studies, and politics Devour
the Land considers how contemporary photographers have responded to
the US military's impact on the domestic environment since the
1970s, a dynamic period for environmental activism as well as for
photography. This catalogue presents a lively range of voices at
the intersection of art, environmentalism, militarism, photography,
and politics. Alongside interviews with prominent contemporary
artists working in the landscape photography tradition, the images
speak to photographers' varied motivations, personal experiences,
and artistic approaches. The result is a surprising picture of the
ways violence and warfare surround us. Although most modern combat
has taken place abroad, the US domestic landscape bears the
footprint of armed conflict-much of the environmental damage we
live with today was caused by our own military and the expansive
network of industries supporting its work. Designed to evoke a
field book and to nod toward ephemera produced by earlier artists
and activists, the catalogue features works by dozens of
photographers, including Ansel Adams, Robert Adams, Dorothy Marder,
Alex Webb, Terry Evans, and many more. Distributed for the Harvard
Art Museums Exhibition Schedule: Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, MA
(September 17, 2021-January 16, 2022)
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Truth in the Public Sphere (Paperback)
Jason Hannan; Contributions by David I. Backer, Chris Balaschak, Makeda Best, Charles Bingham, …
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R1,526
Discovery Miles 15 260
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Has truth become a casualty of America's increasingly caustic and
volatile political culture? Truth in the Public Sphere seeks to
understand the significance of truth for the everyday world of
human communication. To this end, this book explores the place of
truth in several facets of the public sphere: language, ethics,
journalism, politics, media, and art. Featuring an international
group of contributors from across the humanities and social
sciences, this collection is a definitive supplement to theoretical
debates about the meaning and status of truth.
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Truth in the Public Sphere (Hardcover)
Jason Hannan; Contributions by David I. Backer, Chris Balaschak, Makeda Best, Charles Bingham, …
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R3,481
Discovery Miles 34 810
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Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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Has truth become a casualty of America's increasingly caustic and
volatile political culture? Truth in the Public Sphere seeks to
understand the significance of truth for the everyday world of
human communication. To this end, this book explores the place of
truth in several facets of the public sphere: language, ethics,
journalism, politics, media, and art. Featuring an international
group of contributors from across the humanities and social
sciences, this collection is a definitive supplement to theoretical
debates about the meaning and status of truth.
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