Catalog to accompany the exhibition opening at the RISD Museum, February 17, 2024; followed by engagements at the Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY, and Spelman College Museum of Fine Art, Atlanta, Georgia. Includes bibliography (pages 154-157) and index. Catalog designed by Kelly Walters, Bright Polka Dot.
Contents:
Index. Simone Leigh -- Preface / Sarah Ganz Blythe -- "I was hungry, but this seemed of little importance" / Dominic Molon -- "Çe C'est du Travail": Prophet at work / Sarah Ganz Blythe -- Harmonic accord: Themes of poverty and resistance in Nancy Elizabeth Prophet's diary / Ebonie Pollock -- Complexity of identity: a conversation between Lorén M. Spears and Mack H. Scott III -- Separated by a century / Kelly Taylor Mitchell -- "I was hungry, but this seemed of little importance" / Simone Leigh -- Catalogue / Amalia K. Amaki, Horace D. Ballard, Jennie Goldstein, Dominic Molon, Maureen C. O'Brien, Kajette Solomon, Stephanie Sparling Williams -- Chronology -- Bibliography -- Contributors -- Photography credits -- Index.
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