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.
Publisher:
The University of North Carolina Press,
Copyright Date:
2022
Description:
202 pages, 22 pages of plates : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-193) and index.
Contents:
The South Has Always Had Something to Say / Elijah Heyward III. 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 P. Holland -- 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.
Summary:
"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"-- Provided by publisher.
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.