Barbara Chase Riboud: Sculptor - Hardcover

Selz, Peter; Janson, Anthony F.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0810941074 ISBN 13: 9780810941076

Publisher: Harry N. Abrams, 1999

Synopsis

Celebrating the unique stylings of sculptor Barbara Chase-Riboud, one hundred illustrations from the acclaimed artist's repertoire reveal how she has successfully blended African-American history, archaeology, spiritualism, and the Baroque tradition in her work.

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From the Publisher

Barbara Chase-Riboud is one of the most significant and original artists of her generation-a sculptor whose dramatic explorations of literary and historical themes have earned her a presence in major museums around the world. This richly illustrated book presents the first comprehensive overview of Chase-Riboud's 30-year career as a sculptor and draftsman. Distinguished art historians Peter Selz and Anthony F. Janson show how history, archaeology, spiritualism, the Baroque tradition, and Chase-Riboud's parallel career as a poet-novelist (Sally Hemings, Echo of Lions) have influenced her work, from the Malcolm X, Tantra, Zanzibar, and Cleopatra series to her recent monument Africa Rising, the award-winning New York City landmark that commemorates a colonial slave-era African-American burial ground. 100 illustrations, 55 in full color, 9 x 1133/4" Peter Selz is professor emeritus of art history at the University of California at Berkeley. A former curator of painting and sculpture at The Museum of Modern Art, New York, he is the author of 12 books on 20th-century art. Anthony F. Janson is professor of art history at the University of North Carolina, Wilmington. He is author of the latest edition of Janson's History of Art as well as the exhibition catalogue Barbara Chase- Riboud: The Monument Drawings, and is a contributor to Abrams' Vietnam: Reflexes and Reflections, among other titles.

From Library Journal

While Chase-Riboud--an African American poet, novelist, sculptor, and draftsperson--has been an artist for 30 years, much of it was created in Europe and remains little known in the United States. This volume, with essays by world-renowned critics and 100 mostly full-page illustrations, including 55 in color, makes an immediate impact and should help to raise her stature. Chase-Riboud's sculture melds bronze with sensuous cords made from gleaming silk that is knotted as it falls. Her drawings are exquisite, architectonic, and complex yet nearly minimalist. Themes include Cleopatra, Malcolm X, Pushkin, Queen Isabella, Egyptian gods and goddesses, holy sites, and "The Middle Passage Memorial" for the diaspora of those who crossed the Atlantic on slave ships, and her most important "Africa Rising." All of her work is sumptuously beautiful and well served by this fine catalog; highly recommended.
-Mary Hamel-Schwulst, Towson Univ., Millersville, MD.
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About this edition

• Publisher: Harry N. Abrams
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0810941074
• ISBN 13: 9780810941076
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 144