Synopsis
With this volume Patti Carr Black, former director of the Old Capitol Museum in Jackson, has produced a much-needed work and brings together previous research with a vast amount of new information.
Copublished by the Mississippi Historical Society, the Mississippi Department of Archives and History, and the University Press of Mississippi, this elegant and comprehensive volume is the first of the Society's Heritage of Mississippi Series. Black has brought to the task a perspective on Mississippi art that was informed by a lifetime's dedication to art, years of curating museum exhibitions of Mississippi artists, and, specifically for this volume, three years of intensive research in museums and private collections around the country.
In Art in Mississippi she focuses on several hundred significant artists and showcases in full color the work of more than two hundred.
Nationally acclaimed native Mississippians are here-George Ohr, Walter Anderson, Marie Hull, Theora Hamblett, William Dunlap, Sam Gilliam, William Hollings-worth, Jr., Karl Wolfe, Mildred Nungester Wolfe, John McCrady, Ed McGowin, James Seawright, and many others. Prominent artists who lived or worked in the state for a significant period of time are included as well-John James Audubon, Louis Comfort Tiffany, George Caleb Bingham, William Aiken Walker, and more. There are many surprises here, for Black has gathered so much remarkable art that readers will be staggered by the richness of the visual art tradition in Mississippi.
Black explores how art reflects the land and how modes of living and values dictated by Mississippi's changing topography created a variety of art forms. She demonstrates the influence of Mississippi's diverse cultures upon the art and shows how it has responded in many forms-painting, architecture, sculpture, fine crafts-to the changing aesthetics of national art movements. She observes that much art was created to fill immediate needs of the times-reverent depictions of the Civil War, highly wrought expressions of the intensely devout, and works of social realism that grappled with a changing society.
Those who have long been fascinated by the magnificent literature and music produced by this southern state will encounter yet another treasure trove in Art in Mississippi, 1720-1980. Students of Mississippi's phenomenal cultural history will be captivated by this splendid volume.
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About the Author
Patti Carr Black has written and edited many books, including Agnes Grinstead Anderson's Approaching the Magic Hour: Memories of Walter Anderson; Made by Hand: Mississippi Folk Art; and Sea, Earth, Sky: The Art of Walter Anderson.
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First edition (not stated) SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. 360 pages. Hardcover: H 31.25cm x L 23.25cm. Dust jacket rubbed with minor soiling; light bumping at edges. Black cloth; vibrant gilt stamped lettering to spine and front board. Author's blue ink signature written immediately beneath her printed name upon the title page; interior pages are otherwise bright and clean. Binding is firm. A fine copy in a near fine dust jacket. With color frontispiece, Foreword by William F. Winter, Acknowledgements, 244 plates including frontispiece, Bibliographic Notes, and Index. Overshadowed by the state's rich literary and musical heritage, Mississippi's visual arts legacy is staggeringly impressive too as Patti Carr Black documents at length in ART IN MISSISSIPPI. The former director of the Old Capitol Museum in Jackson, Mississippi, Carr reviews several hundred significant artists - painters, potters, sculptors, etc. - with more than two hundred represented in full color illustrations. These include the internationally recognized George Ohr, Walter Anderson, Marie Hull, William Dunlap, and John McCrady to those known on a more national or regional basis such as Theora Hamblett, Sam Gilliam, William Hollingsworth, Jr., Karl Wolfe, Mildred Nungester Wolfe, Ed McGowin, James Seawright, etc. (although unfortunately Carr did lapse in excluding American impressionist William S. Robinson, 1861-1945, who, although primarily identified for his New England landscapes, started wintering in Biloxi in early 1930s and moved there in 1937; Robinson's Gulf Coast paintings are achieving new highs in the auction market). Carr also examines artists who worked in the state of whom the most prominent are John James Audubon, Louis Comfort Tiffany, George Caleb Bingham, and William Aiken Walker. The cumulation of years of research, ART IN MISSISSIPPI is an authoritative monograph unmatched in its overview of the state's artistic traditions. Description copyright David Hallinan, Bookseller. Please note that this large book has an approximate shipping weight of 5.25 pounds (2.38 kg) and will require additional postage for any postal class other than domestic Media Mail. {ArtSouth-Shelf#4} ISBN 1578060842. Seller Inventory # PXZP-18178
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