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Harmonia Rosales - Master Narrative
Patricia Lee Daigle; Edited by Rosamund Garrett; Contributions by Efeoghene Igor Coleman, Sophia Quach McCabe, Natalie McCann, …
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R473
Discovery Miles 4 730
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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This vibrant catalogue presents the work of contemporary artist
Harmonia Rosales. Featuring over twenty paintings and a monumental
sculptural installation, Harmonia Rosales: Master Narrative is the
artist’s first major touring exhibition and first scholarly
catalogue of her work. Los Angeles-based artist Harmonia Rosales
(b. Chicago, 1984) rewrites the canon, or the master narrative of
art history, from the perspective of an Afro-Cuban American woman
in the twenty-first century. Her canvases seamlessly weave the
tales and characters rooted in West African Yorùbá religion,
Greek mythology, and Christianity with the canonical works and
artistic techniques of the European Renaissance. Through her visual
storytelling, Rosales presents the notion of human and cultural
survival on her own terms – one that highlights the beauty and
strength of Black people, particularly women, while touching upon
grand narratives of creation, tragedy, survival and transcendence.
This beautifully illustrated publication includes a catalogue of
works in the exhibition, a biography of the artist and new essays
by noted scholars in their fields. These essays explore themes
ranging from storytelling and narrative to gender and depiction of
beauty to race and diaspora.
After goldsmiths work, tapestries and embroideries were among the
costliest art forms of the Middle Ages, due to their precious
materials and the countless hours required to produce them. Whether
hung on the wall or worn about the person, textiles provided a
potent display of their owners' wealth and status. Their vivid
decoration also provided the perfect backdrop for courtly pageants,
royal ceremonies, and liturgical festivals. Even the quickest
glance at late medieval paintings shows just how forcefully
textiles shaped the visual texture of the occasions they depict.
Though always the works of specialist craftsmen, in the later
Middle Ages textiles were often made following designs supplied by
the leading painters and designers of their age. Yet only a tiny
fraction of what was made has survived. The fragility of the
fabrics, light damage and insects, together with alterations of
use, have made this material extremely rare. This catalogue
includes thirty-six late medieval and Renaissance textiles, many
published for the first time, that together span a period of almost
two hundred years. They are organised by country, starting with
otherwise unrecorded examples of 'opus anglicanum' made in English
workshops between around 1400 and the eve of the Reformation. They
are followed by textiles from France, the Netherlands, Germany,
Italy and Spain. Different materials and classes of textile are
grouped together within each of these regional divisions. For
instance, liturgical vestments and altar hangings sit side by side
with sumptuous velvets and delicately embroidered tablecloths.
Together, they encapsulate the incredible breadth of Europe's
flourishing textile industries during this period. Rosamund Garrett
and Matthew Reeves have carefully recorded the physical structure,
processes of manufacture, and condition of these remarkable and
sometimes complex works, and have situated them within the wider
contexts of their production and the cultural climate in which they
were made.
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