Lampkins - Fielder Raina - Souls Grown Deep Like The Rivers Black Artists From The American South - Hardcover

Binding: Hardcover
Description: For generations Black artists from the American South have forged a unique art tradition. Working in near isolation from established practices they have created masterpieces in clay driftwood roots soil and recycled and cast - off objects that articulate America's painful past the inhuman practice of enslavement the cruel segregationist policies of the Jim Crow era and institutionalised racism. Their works date from the early twentieth century to today and respond to issues ranging from economic inequality oppression and social marginalisation to sexuality the influence of place and ancestral memory. Among the sculptures paintings reliefs and drawings included here are works by Hawkins Bolden Thornton Dial Sam Doyle Bessie Harvey Lonnie Holley Ronald Lockett Joe Minter Nellie Mae Rowe Mary T. Smith Henry and Georgia Speller Mose Tolliver Charles Williams and Purvis Young. Also featured are the celebrated quiltmakers of Gee's Bend Alabama among them Mary Lee Bendolph Marlene Bennett Jones Loretta Pettway and Martha Jane Pettway.
Title: Souls Grown Deep Like The Rivers Black Artists From The American South
Author(s): Lampkins - Fielder Raina
Publisher: Royal Academy Of Arts
Barcode: 9781912520954
Pages: 144 Pages, 125 Illustrations, Color; 125 Illustrations, Color
Publication Date: 5/9/2023
Category: Exhibition Catalogues & Specific Collections