The Art Of Ellis Wilson

Author : Albert Sperath,Margaret R. Vendryes,Steven H. Jones,Eva King
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2014-11-04
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780813160474

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The Art of Ellis Wilson by Albert Sperath,Margaret R. Vendryes,Steven H. Jones,Eva King Pdf

From the tobacco fields of western Kentucky to the streets of Harlem, from the Gullah Islands off the South Carolina and Georgia coasts to the all-black republic of Haiti, painter Ellis Wilson (1899-1977) examined the scope and depth of black culture. One of Kentucky's most significant African American artists, Wilson graduated from the Art Institute of Chicago in 1923. He spent five more years in the city before moving to New York, where he lived for the rest of his life. Aside from his participation in the WPA's Federal Arts Project and a Guggenheim Fellowship, he was never able to support himself fully by painting. Yet his work has long been praised for its boldness and individuality. Black workers were a favorite subject: field hands, factory workers, loggers, fishermen, and more. Of his 1940s series of black factory employees, Wilson stated, "That was the first time I had ever seen my people working in industry, so I painted them." Over time his documentary style gave way to one that emphasized shape and color over pure representation. Despite exhibitions in New York and elsewhere, Wilson considered a small show at the public library in his hometown of Mayfield in 1947 to be "one of the high points" of his life. This catalog accompanies the first major retrospective of Wilson's paintings.

Author : Albert Sperath, Margaret R. Vendryes, Steven H. Jones, Eva King
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 102 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Art
ISBN : 0813127173

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The Art of Ellis Wilson by Albert Sperath, Margaret R. Vendryes, Steven H. Jones, Eva King Pdf

Author : Jayne Moore Waldrop
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2022-12-06
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1945049340

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A Journey in Color by Jayne Moore Waldrop Pdf

A Journey in Color: The Art of Ellis Wilson tells the story of a young man's determined path to become a classically trained artist. Growing up in rural Kentucky in the early twentieth century, Wilson needed to convince his family and neighbors that art was a path worth choosing over becoming a farmer or teacher. And he had to find an art school that judged him for his talent and not for the color of his skin. How Wilson saw the world influenced his vibrant, groundbreaking art, as well as the lifelong pursuit of his dream "to paint all the time-everything of interest and beauty."

Author : Henry Louis Gates (Jr.),Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 609 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780195387957

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Harlem Renaissance Lives from the African American National Biography by Henry Louis Gates (Jr.),Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham Pdf

The Harlem Renaissance is the best known and most widely studied cultural movement in African American history. Now, in Harlem Renaissance Lives, esteemed scholars Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham have selected 300 key biographical entries culled from the eight-volume African American National Biography, providing an authoritative who's who of this seminal period. Here readers will find engagingly written and authoritative articles on notable African Americans who made significant contributions to literature, drama, music, visual art, or dance, including such central figures as poet Langston Hughes, novelist Zora Neale Hurston, aviator Bessie Coleman, blues singer Ma Rainey, artist Romare Bearden, dancer Josephine Baker, jazzman Louis Armstrong, and the intellectual giant W. E. B. Du Bois. Also included are biographies of people like the Scottsboro Boys, who were not active within the movement but who nonetheless profoundly affected the artistic and political statements that came from Harlem Renaissance figures. The volume will also feature a preface by the editors, an introductory essay by historian Cary D. Wintz, and 75 illustrations.

Author : Samella S. Lewis
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Art
ISBN : 0520239350

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African American Art and Artists by Samella S. Lewis Pdf

Examines the lives and works of African American artists from the eighteenth century to the present, with biographical and critical text and illustrated examples of their work.

Author : Nancy Hillis
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2023-01-16
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1955028079

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The Artist's Journey by Nancy Hillis Pdf

If you yearn to say yes to your deepest expression in your art and life, this self-help book is for you. Dr. Hillis guides you past resistance on your artist's journey so you can finally trust yourself, develop confidence and cultivate deep exploration and experimentation in your art. Bonus resource library with videos lessons and book club guide.

Author : Eddie Chambers
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 467 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2019-11-12
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781351045179

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The Routledge Companion to African American Art History by Eddie Chambers Pdf

This Companion authoritatively points to the main areas of enquiry within the subject of African American art history. The first section examines how African American art has been constructed over the course of a century of published scholarship. The second section studies how African American art is and has been taught and researched in academia. The third part focuses on how African American art has been reflected in art galleries and museums. The final section opens up understandings of what we mean when we speak of African American art. This book will be of interest to graduate students, researchers, and professors and may be used in American art, African American art, visual culture, and culture classes.

Author : Elizabeth Harney,Ruth B. Phillips
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2018-11-16
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780822372615

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Mapping Modernisms by Elizabeth Harney,Ruth B. Phillips Pdf

Mapping Modernisms brings together scholars working around the world to address the modern arts produced by indigenous and colonized artists. Expanding the contours of modernity and its visual products, the contributors illustrate how these artists engaged with ideas of Primitivism through visual forms and philosophical ideas. Although often overlooked in the literature on global modernisms, artists, artworks, and art patrons moved within and across national and imperial borders, carrying, appropriating, or translating objects, images, and ideas. These itineraries made up the dense networks of modern life, contributing to the crafting of modern subjectivities and of local, transnationally inflected modernisms. Addressing the silence on indigeneity in established narratives of modernism, the contributors decenter art history's traditional Western orientation and prompt a re-evaluation of canonical understandings of twentieth-century art history. Mapping Modernisms is the first book in Modernist Exchanges, a multivolume project dedicated to rewriting the history of modernism and modernist art to include artists, theorists, art forms, and movements from around the world. Contributors. Bill Anthes, Peter Brunt, Karen Duffek, Erin Haney, Elizabeth Harney, Heather Igloliorte, Sandra Klopper, Ian McLean, Anitra Nettleton, Chika Okeke-Agulu, Ruth B. Phillips, W. Jackson Rushing III, Damian Skinner, Nicholas Thomas, Norman Vorano

Author : Douglas Ellis,Ed Hulse,Robert Weinberg
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2017-10-24
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 9781684050918

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The Art of the Pulps: An Illustrated History by Douglas Ellis,Ed Hulse,Robert Weinberg Pdf

Experts in the ten major Pulp genres, from action Pulps to spicy Pulps and more, chart for the first time the complete history of Pulp magazines—the stories and their writers, the graphics and their artists, and, of course, the publishers, their market, and readers. Each chapter in the book, which is illustrated with more than 400 examples of the best Pulp graphics (many from the editors’ collections—among the world’s largest) is organized in a clear and accessible way, starting with an introductory overview of the genre, followed by a selection of the best covers and interior graphics, organized chronologically through the chapter. All images are fully captioned (many are in essence "nutshell" histories in themselves). Two special features in each chapter focus on topics of particular interest (such as extended profiles of Daisy Bacon, Pulp author and editor of Love Story, the hugely successful romance Pulp, and of Harry Steeger, co-founder of Popular Publications in 1930 and originator of the "Shudder Pulp" genre). With an overall introduction on "The Birth of the Pulps" by Doug Ellis, and with two additional chapters focusing on the great Pulp writers and the great Pulp artists, The Art of the Pulps covers every aspect of this fascinating genre; it is the first definitive visual history of the Pulps. "The Art of the Pulps is a must for any pulp fans, anywhere." - LOCUS Magazine Winner of the 2018 LOCUS Award for Best Art Book

Author : Margaret Rose Vendryes
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Art
ISBN : 1604730927

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Barthé by Margaret Rose Vendryes Pdf

A celebration of the acclaimed African American modern sculptor

Author : Richard A. Courage,Christopher Robert Reed
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 415 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2020-05-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780252051913

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Roots of the Black Chicago Renaissance by Richard A. Courage,Christopher Robert Reed Pdf

The Black Chicago Renaissance emerged from a foundational stage that stretched from the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition to the start of the Great Depression. During this time, African American innovators working across the landscape of the arts set the stage for an intellectual flowering that redefined black cultural life. Richard A. Courage and Christopher Robert Reed have brought together essays that explore the intersections in the backgrounds, education, professional affiliations, and public lives and achievements of black writers, journalists, visual artists, dance instructors, and other creators working in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Organized chronologically, the chapters unearth transformative forces that supported the emergence of individuals and social networks dedicated to work in arts and letters. The result is an illuminating scholarly collaboration that remaps African American intellectual and cultural geography and reframes the concept of urban black renaissance. Contributors: Richard A. Courage, Mary Jo Deegan, Brenda Ellis Fredericks, James C. Hall, Bonnie Claudia Harrison, Darlene Clark Hine, John McCluskey Jr., Amy M. Mooney, Christopher Robert Reed, Clovis E. Semmes, Margaret Rose Vendryes, and Richard Yarborough

Author : Romare Bearden,Harry Brinton Henderson
Publisher : Pantheon
Page : 600 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015031819330

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A History of African-American Artists by Romare Bearden,Harry Brinton Henderson Pdf

A landmark work of art history: lavishly illustrated and extraordinary for its thoroughness, A History of African-American Artists -- conceived, researched, and written by the great American artist Romare Bearden with journalist Harry Henderson, who completed the work after Bearden's death in 1988 -- gives a conspectus of African-American art from the late eighteenth century to the present. It examines the lives and careers of more than fifty signal African-American artists, and the relation of their work to prevailing artistic, social, and political trends both in America and throughout the world. Beginning with a radical reevaluation of the enigma of Joshua Johnston, a late eighteenth-century portrait painter widely assumed by historians to be one of the earliest known African-American artists, Bearden and Henderson go on to examine the careers of Robert S. Duncanson, Edward M. Bannister, Henry Ossawa Tanner, Aaron Douglas, Edmonia Lewis, Jacob Lawrence, Hale A. Woodruff, Augusta Savage, Charles H. Alston, Ellis Wilson, Archibald J. Motley, Jr., Horace Pippin, Alma W. Thomas, and many others. Illustrated with more than 420 black-and-white illustrations and 61 color reproductions -- including rediscovered classics, works no longer extant, and art never before seen in this country -- A History of African-American Artists is a stunning achievement.

Author : Smithsonian American Art Museum,Richard J. Powell,Virginia McCord Mecklenburg
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Art
ISBN : UCSD:31822039591037

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African American Art by Smithsonian American Art Museum,Richard J. Powell,Virginia McCord Mecklenburg Pdf

"Drawn entirely from the Smithsonian American Art Museum's rich collection of African American art, the works include paintings by Benny Andrews, Jacob Lawrence, Thornton Dial Sr., Romare Bearden, Alma Thomas, and Lois Mailou Jones, and photographs by Roy DeCarava, Gordon Parks, Roland Freeman, Marilyn Nance, and James Van Der Zee. More than half of the artworks in the exhibition are being shown for the first time"--Publisher's website.

Author : Robert Alfred Wilson
Publisher : Skyhorse Publishing Inc.
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2010-01-01
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781602399853

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Modern Book Collecting by Robert Alfred Wilson Pdf

A new edition of the classic guide to book collecting includes a new section on Internet resources.

Author : August Wilson
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2019-08-06
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780593087626

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Two Trains Running by August Wilson Pdf

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Fences and The Piano Lesson comes a “vivid and uplifting” (Time) play about unsung men and women who are anything but ordinary. August Wilson established himself as one of our most distinguished playwrights with his insightful, probing, and evocative portraits of Black America and the African American experience in the twentieth century. With the mesmerizing Two Trains Running, he crafted what Time magazine called “his most mature work to date.” It is Pittsburgh, 1969, and the regulars of Memphis Lee’s restaurant are struggling to cope with the turbulence of a world that is changing rapidly around them and fighting back when they can. The diner is scheduled to be torn down, a casualty of the city’s renovation project that is sweeping away the buildings of a community, but not its spirit. For just as sure as an inexorable future looms right around the corner, these people of “loud voices and big hearts” continue to search, to father, to persevere, to hope. With compassion, humor, and a superb sense of place and time, Wilson paints a vivid portrait of everyday lives in the shadow of great events.