The dirty south : contemporary art, material culture, and the sonic impulse / Valerie Cassel Oliver ; with contributions by Regina N. Bradley, Charlie R. Braxton, Andrea Barnwell Brownlee, Kirsten Pai Buick, Jennifer Burris, Rhea L. Combs, Park McArthur, Paul D. Miller aka DJ Spooky aka That Subliminal Kid, Fred Moten, Anthony B. Pinn, Guthrie P. Ramsey, Jr., and Roger Reeves.
Publisher:
Distributed by Duke University Press,
Copyright Date:
2021
Description:
xiii, 282 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 28 cm
"This catalogue accompanies the exhibition The Dirty South: Contemporary Art, Material Culture, and the Sonic Impulse, presented at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, May 22-September 6, 2021; Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, October 28, 2021-February 6, 2022; Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, March 12-July 25, 2022; Museum of Contemporary Art Denver, September 2022-February 2023"--Page iv. Includes bibliographical references and index. Includes artists: Terry Adkins, Charles Henry Alston, Emma Amos, Benny Andrews, Radcliffe Bailey, Romare Bearden, Kevin Beasley, Paul Stephen Benjamin, Julia Beverly, John Biggers, Sanford Biggers, Herman Poole Blount (AKA Sony'r Ra or Sun Ra), Sheila Pree Bright, Beverly Buchanan, Bisa Butler, Elizabeth Catlett, Nick Cave, Mel Chin, Sonya Clark, Bethany Collins, Eldzier Cortor, Abraham Lincoln Criss, Jamal Cyrus, Bruce Davenport Jr. (AKA Dapper Bruce Lafitte), Beauford Delaney, Thornton Dial, Nathaniel Donnett, Aaron Douglas, William Edmondson, Melvin Edwards, Winton and Rosa Eugene, Minnie Evans, Leonard Freed, Theaster Gates, Sam Gilliam, Allison Janae Hamilton, David Hammons, Bessie Harvey, Palmer Hayden (AKA Peyton Cole Hedgeman), Robert Hodge, Earlie Hudnall, Jr., Clementine Hunter, Arthur Jafa, Anderson Johnson, William H. Johnson, Richard FIEND Jones (aka International Jones), Jacob Lawrence, El Franco Lee II, Samella Lewis, James Little, Whitfield Lovell, Jonathan Mannion, Kerry James Marshall, James Martin (AKA Spider Martin), Rodney McMillian, Michi Meko, Jason Moran, Sister Gertrude Morgan, Marilyn Nance (AKA Soulsista), Rashaad Newsome, Tameka Jenean Norris (AKA T.J. Dedeaux-Norris and Meka Jean), Demetrius Oliver, Joe Overstreet, Fahamu Pecou, Rita Mae Pettway, Robert Pruitt, Deborah Roberts, Nadine Robinson, Sulton Rogers, RaMell Ross, Nellie Mae Rowe, Kenneth Royster, Paul Rucker, Augusta Savage, Joyce J. Scott, John Sims, Kevin Sipp, Kaneem Smith, Renee Stout, Jimmy Lee Sudduth, Felandus Thames, Alma Thomas, James Thomas (AKA Son Ford), Bob Thompson, Mildred Thompson, Mose Tolliver, Bill Traylor, Freeman Vines, Kara Walker, Nari Ward, Arliss Watford, Jack Whitten, William T. Williams, Purvis Young.
Contents:
Director's foreword / Alex Nyerges -- What you know about the Dirty South? / Valerie Cassel Oliver -- a poem for black art / Fred Moten -- Landscape : the politics and poetics of dirt. Cosmic encounter / Charlie R. Braxton ; Bevery Buchanan : forms of ruination / Andrea Barnwell Brownlee, Jennifer Burris, and Park MacArthur ; Quilted beats bound at the rut : a theorization of the Dirty South / Regina N. Bradley ; Plates -- Systems of thought : the vision of envisioning. Songs that are sacred and pure (for Toni Morrison) / Charlie R. Braxton ; Dreaming empire, conjuring freedom : Renee Stout, African American landscape representation, and the imperial South / Kirsten Pai Buick ; Bible Belt swag : Houston hip-hop and Black religion / Anthony B. Pinn ; Dreaming of the South in stereo : Black music's American journey / Guthrie P. Ramsey Jr. ; Plates -- The Black body : repository/site/agent. Bluesosophy (for Julius Thompson) / Charlie R. Braxton ; Picturing the South : how photographers have imaged the region / Rhea L. Combs ; Changing the rules, the practice of pleasure : the linguistic possibilities of dirt / Roger Reeves ; Plates -- Epilogue. Code Black : the Dirty South / Paul D. Miller ; The Dirty South playlist ; Plates -- Artist biographies -- Contributor biographies -- Exhibition checklist and image credits.
Summary:
"This exhibition catalog to the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts’ The Dirty South: Contemporary Art, Material Culture, and the Sonic Impulse chronicles the pervasive visual and sonic parallels in the work of Black artists from the southern United States. It looks to contemporary southern hip-hop as a portal into the roots and aesthetic legacies that have shaped contemporary art from the 1920s to the present. It features multiple generations of both academically trained and 'outsider' artists working in a variety of genres and disciplines, including Thornton Dial, Allison Janae Hamilton, Arthur Jafa, Jason Moran, Sister Gertrude Morgan, Sun Ra, Kara Walker, and William Edmondson. Creating a capacious understanding of southern expression in visual art, material culture, and music, this richly illustrated volume documents the exhibition’s artworks and includes critical essays, poems, artist biographies, and an extended bibliography"--https://vmfashop.com/dirty-south/the-dirty-south-exhibition-catalog.html.
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.