Kerry James Marshall: Mastry - Hardcover

Alteveer, Ian; Molesworth, Helen; Roelstraete, Dieter; Winograd, Abigail

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9780847848331: Kerry James Marshall: Mastry
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0847848337 ISBN 13: 9780847848331
Publisher: Skira Rizzoli, 2016

Synopsis

The definitive monograph on contemporary African American painter Kerry James Marshall, accompanying a major traveling retrospective. This long-awaited volume celebrates the work of Kerry James Marshall, one of America’s greatest living painters. Born before the passage of the Civil Rights Act, in Birmingham, Alabama, and witness to the Watts riots in 1965, Marshall has long been an inspired and imaginative chronicler of the African American experience. Best known for large-scale interiors, landscapes, and portraits featuring powerful black figures, Marshall explores narratives of African American history from slave ships to the present and draws upon his deep knowledge of art history from the Renaissance to twentieth-century abstraction, as well as other sources such as the comic book and the muralist tradition. With luscious color and brushstrokes and highly detailed patterning, his direct and intimate scenes of black middle-class life conjure a wide range of emotions, resulting in powerful paintings that confront the position of African Americans throughout American history. Richly illustrated, this monumental book features essays by noted curators as well as the artist, and more than 100 paintings from throughout the artist’s career arranged thematically by subject: history painting; beauty, as expressed through the nude, portraiture, and self-portraiture; landscape; religion; and the politics of black nationalism.

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About the Author

Ian Alteveer is associate curator in the department of modern and contemporary art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Helen Molesworth is the chief curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), Los Angeles. Dieter Roelstraete is a curator of Documenta 14 and the former Manilow Senior Curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago (MCA). Abigail Winograd is a research associate at the MCA.

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Publisher
Skira Rizzoli
Publication date
2016
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0847848337
ISBN 13 
9780847848331
Binding
Hardcover
Edition number
4
Number of pages
288
Rating
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