Emancipation : the unfinished project of liberation
Bibliographie
- Auteurs : Adler Maggie ; Poole Maurita ; Amon Carter museum of American art ; Williams college museum of art ;
- ISBN : 978-0-520-39330-1
- Sujets : Noirs américains -- Dans l'art, Esclaves, Liberté, Race, Art, Catalogues d'exposition, Ouvrages illustrés
- Comprend : The unfinished project of liberation
- Langue(s) : Anglais
- Description matérielle : 1 volume (139 pages), : Illustrations en couleurs, portraits illustrés en couleurs, couverture illustrée en couleurs, 26 cm
- Pays de publication : États-Unis
Notes
Publié à l'occasion de l'exposition présentée au Amon Carter Museum of American Art de Fort Worth (Texas), du 12 mars au 9 juillet 2023 ; au Newcomb Art Museum at Tulane University à la Nouvelle-Orléans (Louisiane), du 5 août au 11 novembre 2023 ; et au Williams College Museum of Art à Williamstown (Massachusetts), du 16 février au 16 juin 2024 ; Index
Résumé
'Emancipation critically interrogates the impact of sculpture in public life, centering around ideas of agency and emancipation in historical and contemporary expression. The fulcrum of the book will be the Amon Carter Museum of American Art's copy of John Quincy Adams Ward's bronze sculpture The Freedman (1863). Unlike conventional depictions of enslaved African Americans at this time, which showed them as powerless, this heroic figure has broken his chains. The catalogue begins with an introduction to Civil War-era works contextualizing The Freedman, then examines the work of six contemporary Black artists whose respective practices engage the mediums of sculpture and installation connected to themes of freedom or imprisonment, the long legacy of the Civil War in the United States, body, and personhood. Featuring the work of Sadie Barnette, Maya Freelon, Hugh Hayden, Letitia Huckaby, Jeffrey Meris, and Sable Elyse Smith, as well as a reprinted short story by N.K. Jemisin, Emancipation brings contemporary issues of racial inequities, the legacy of war and conflict, and issues of freedom-or lack thereof-for Black Americans to the fore'