Kerry James Marshall
Author
Publisher
David Zwirner Books
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"With a career spanning almost three decades, Kerry James Marshall is well known for his complex and multilayered portrayals of youths, interiors, nudes, housing estate gardens, land- and seascapes, all of which synthesize different traditions and genres while seeking to counter stereotypical representations of black people in society. Working across various mediums, from paintings to comic-style drawings to sculptural installations, photographs,...
Author
Publisher
Ludion
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"Alabama-born Kerry James Marshall (°1955), who shares common ground with Luc Tuymans, is regarded as one of the most important painters of his generation. Seen through the filter of Afro-American identity and history, Marshall's work critiques the assumptions of the art system and art history. This publication of old and much new work also includes a selection from the artist's sculptures, such as the series of gigantic stamps with Black Power slogans,...
Author
Publisher
David Zwirner Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Kerry James Marshall is one of America's greatest living painters. 'History of Painting' presents a groundbreaking body of new work that engages with the history of the medium itself.0In 'Kerry James Marshall: History of Painting', the artist has widened his scope to include both figurative and nonfigurative works that deal explicitly with art history, race, and gender, as well as paintings that force us to reexamine how artworks are received in...
Publisher
Art21,Inc
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
Meet diverse contemporary artists through revealing profiles that take viewers behind the scenes into artists' studios, homes, and communities to provide an intimate view of their lives, work, sources of inspiration and creative processes.
Author
Publisher
Smithsonian American Art Museum
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"Bill Traylor (ca. 1853-1949) is regarded today as one of the most important American artists of the twentieth century. A black man born into slavery in Alabama, he was an eyewitness to history--the Civil War, Emancipation, Reconstruction, Jim Crow segregation, the Great Migration, and the steady rise of African American urban culture in the South. Traylor would not live to see the civil rights movement, but he was among those who laid its foundation....
Publisher
The Art Institute of Chicago
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"This is a revelatory reassessment of one of the most influential American artists of the 20th century: Charles White (1918-1979) is best known for bold, large-scale paintings and drawings of African Americans, meticulously executed works that depict human relationships and socioeconomic struggles with a remarkable sensitivity. This comprehensive study offers a much-needed reexamination of the artist's career and legacy. With handsome reproductions...
