Southern accent : seeking the American South in contemporary art / edited by Miranda Lash, Trevor Schoonmaker ; contributions by Diego Camposeco [and twenty-two others].
Publisher:
Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University,
Copyright Date:
2016
Description:
275 pages : illustrations (some color), portraits ; 27 cm
Southern accent (Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University)
Notes:
Published on the occasion of the exhibition at Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, September 1, 2016-January 8, 2017, and at Speed Art Museum, Louisville, Kentucky, April 29, 2017-August 20, 2017. Includes bibliographical references.
Contents:
What do we envision when we talk about the South? / Miranda Lash -- Southern accent : the sound of seeing / Trevor Schoonmaker -- South / Natasha Trethewey -- Latinos and the North Carolina landscape / Diego Camposeco -- Riding the soul food rickshaw / John T. Edge -- Accents inside my head / Carter Foster -- KEW ACM ATL / Kara Walker and Ari Marcopolous -- On things unseen / Tom Rankin -- Porch and drawl / Richard J. Powell -- Southern mountain time / Jeff Whetstone -- Womanish / Brittney Cooper -- "Humming this song trying to remember the way another one goes" : intermedia conversations in a Southern vernacular / Brendan Greaves -- Down home on the Moon / Mark Anthony Neal -- I reckon / Harrison Haynes -- The three great Alabama icons / Patterson Hood -- Soul food / Fahamu Pecou -- No lonesome road / Catherine Opie -- Honky-tonks and hospices / Dario Robleto -- Medicine / Mel Chin -- The fast-talking, knife-throwing, trouble-making motorcycle legend and naturalist, Jim Roche, makes some damn good work / Bradley Sumrall -- Field bling / Ada LimoĢn -- Southern accent music library / Brendan Greaves, Harrison Haynes, and Trevor Schoonmaker -- Chronology of Southern art and scholarship / Andrew Hibbard -- The first Southern Rim experience / William Fagaly -- Southern accent reading list / Miranda Lash.
Summary:
Featuring the work of sixty artists and including 300 illustrations, the catalog 'Southern Accent' accompanies a major contemporary art exhibition that questions and explores the complex and contested space of the American South. This unprecedented exhibition investigates the many realities, fantasies, and myths of the South that have long captured the public's imagination, while presenting a wide range of perspectives that create a composite portrait of southern identity through contemporary art. It looks at the South as an open-ended question and concept in itself by encompassing a broad spectrum of media and approaches, demonstrating that southernness is more of a shared sensibility than any one definable culture or style. While the exhibition includes artwork from the 1950s to the present, it primarily focuses on the past thirty-five years. With numerous contributions by artists, scholars, musicians, and poets, a music-listening library, and a timeline of scholarship on southern art, this catalog redefines the way we look at the South in contemporary art.
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.