Kerry James Marshall - Hardcover

Marshall, Kerry James

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0810935279 ISBN 13: 9780810935273

Publisher: Harry N. Abrams, 2000

Synopsis

The remarkable talent of the artist Kerry James Marshall has already earned him a coveted MacArthur "genius" award and inclusion in recent Whitney Biennial, Carnegie International, and Documenta exhibitions. Marshall's art is provocative, eye-catching, political, and rich in literary and historical allusion. With this vibrantly illustrated monograph, which includes text by the artist himself on his development and on individual artworks, Abrams proudly introduces Marshall's work to a much wider general audience.

Marshall's lyrical, Matissian images of the contemporary African-American urban experience are layered narratives of social order and disorder, of memories and myths. Gathered here are over 100 drawings, paintings, collages, stills from video projects, and installations. Literature lovers will find that Marshall's art recalls the work of Ralph Ellison, and those interested in social history and the civil-rights movement will see depicted-in poignant, dreamlike scenes as strange as they are familiar-the everyday experiences of black Americans.

KERRY JAMES MARSHALL is a painter, photographer, printmaker, and installation artist whose work is in private collections and major American museums such as the Art Institute and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, the Studio Museum in Harlem and Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. He has been production designer for several films, including Daughters of the Dust. Marshall lives in Chicago, where he is professor of art at the University of Illinois.

TERRIE SULTAN, curator of contemporary art at the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., often writes and lectures on contemporary art.

ARTHUR JAFA is an artist and independent filmmaker in New York City.

110 illustrations, 68 in full color, 9 x 103/4"

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Reviews

A quote from Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man inaugurates this superb treatise on the pictorially rich, intellectually spiky, and altogether masterful work of African American artist Marshall, who has as much to say about art as he does about racial identity and representation. Between Marshall's own forceful essay and the illuminating contributions of contemporary art curator Terrie Sultan and artist and filmmaker Arthur Jafa, readers will discern the genesis of Marshall's belief that old-fashioned technical proficiency and true clarity of intent are essential to making authentic art. Having declared early on that each figure he painted would be black and each image would be one "that spoke directly to the issue of blackness," Marshall has created dramatic and arch narrative works that bring about collisions between white middle-class iconography and symbols of black culture both genuine and imposed. And he has deliberately linked his work to art's grand tradition, subtly alluding to such masters as Rembrandt and Jacob Lawrence. Donna Seaman
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Edition details

• Publisher: Harry N. Abrams
• Publication date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0810935279
• ISBN 13: 9780810935273
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 128