The unfinished business of unsettled things : art from an African American South /
The unfinished business of unsettled things : art from an African American South /
edited by Bernard L. Herman ; with contributions from Celeste-Marie Bernier, Laura Bickford, Michael J. Bramwell, Elijah Heyward III, Sharon Patricia Holland, Pamela J. Sachant.
- 202 pages, 22 pages of plates : color illustrations ; 29 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: The Unfinished Business of Unsettled Things: Art from an African American South / Bernard L. Herman -- Put Honey in The Sky Where It Could Drip and Make the World Sweet: Looking for Purvis Young and Thomas Samuel Doyle, but Seeing Something Else: Meditations on the Matter of Black Freedom / Sharon Patricia Holland -- We Had to Learn Surviving: Imaging Slavery and Imagining Freedom in "Black Lexicons Of Liberation" / Celeste-Marie Bernier -- Heard a Voice, Saw a Light: Spiritual Implications of Creative Belief in Black Vernacular Art / Michael J. Bramwell -- When Everything Stands Still, That's When the Griot Spirit Come On: History-Making and Assemblage in the African American South / Laura Bickford -- Biography -- Writing Lives; Art -- Viewing Lives / Pamela J. Sachant -- The South Has Always Had Something to Say / Elijah Heyward III.
"This book invites readers into a growing, dynamic conversation among scholars and critics around a vibrant community of artists from an African American South. This constellation of creative makers includes familiar figures, such as Thornton Dial Sr., Lonnie Holley, and quiltmakers Nettie Young and Mary Lee Bendolph, whose work is collected in major museum and private collections. The artists represented extend to lesser-known but equally compelling creators working across a wide range of artistic forms, themes, and geographies"--
1469668521 9781469668529
2022010463
African American art--Southern States.
African American artists--Southern States.
Art, American--Southern States.
Artists--Southern States.
N6538 .B53 / U54 2022
709.2/396073075
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: The Unfinished Business of Unsettled Things: Art from an African American South / Bernard L. Herman -- Put Honey in The Sky Where It Could Drip and Make the World Sweet: Looking for Purvis Young and Thomas Samuel Doyle, but Seeing Something Else: Meditations on the Matter of Black Freedom / Sharon Patricia Holland -- We Had to Learn Surviving: Imaging Slavery and Imagining Freedom in "Black Lexicons Of Liberation" / Celeste-Marie Bernier -- Heard a Voice, Saw a Light: Spiritual Implications of Creative Belief in Black Vernacular Art / Michael J. Bramwell -- When Everything Stands Still, That's When the Griot Spirit Come On: History-Making and Assemblage in the African American South / Laura Bickford -- Biography -- Writing Lives; Art -- Viewing Lives / Pamela J. Sachant -- The South Has Always Had Something to Say / Elijah Heyward III.
"This book invites readers into a growing, dynamic conversation among scholars and critics around a vibrant community of artists from an African American South. This constellation of creative makers includes familiar figures, such as Thornton Dial Sr., Lonnie Holley, and quiltmakers Nettie Young and Mary Lee Bendolph, whose work is collected in major museum and private collections. The artists represented extend to lesser-known but equally compelling creators working across a wide range of artistic forms, themes, and geographies"--
1469668521 9781469668529
2022010463
African American art--Southern States.
African American artists--Southern States.
Art, American--Southern States.
Artists--Southern States.
N6538 .B53 / U54 2022
709.2/396073075