Jacob Lawrence : the American struggle
Bibliographie
- Auteurs : Turner Elizabeth Hutton (1952-....) ; Bailly Austen Barron (19..-....) ; Peabody Essex museum ;
- ISBN : 978-0-295-74704-0, 0-295-74704-8
- Sujets : Noirs américains -- Dans l'art, Peinture narrative, Catalogues d'exposition, Lawrence, Jacob
- Langue(s) : Anglais
- Description matérielle : 1 vol. (188 p.), : Ill. en coul., couv. ill. en coul., 33 cm
- Pays de publication : États-Unis
Notes
Publié à l'occasion de l'exposition itinérante 'Jacob Lawrence: The American Struggle' présentée au Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, Massachusetts, du 18 janvier au 26 avril 2020 ; au Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, N.Y., du 2 juin au 7 septembre 2020 ; au Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, Alabama, du 17 octobre 2020 au 10 janvier 2021; au Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, Washington, du 25 février au 31 mai 2021 et à la Phillips Collection, Washington, DC, du 26 juin au 19 septembre 2021. ; Bibliogr. p. 178-180. Index.
Résumé
'This publication sets the precedent for the next generation of Lawrence scholars and studies in modern and contemporary discourse. The American Struggle explores Jacob Lawrence's radical way of transforming history into art by looking at his thirty panel series of paintings, Struggle . . . from the History of the American People (1954-56). Essays by Steven Locke, Elizabeth Hutton Turner, Austen Barron Bailly, and Lydia Gordon mark the historic reunion of this series--seen together in this exhibition for the first time since 1958. In entries on the panels, a multitude of voices responds to the episodes representing struggle from American history that Lawrence chose to activate in his series. The American Struggle reexamines Lawrence's lost narrative and its power for twenty-first century audiences by including contemporary art and artists. Derrick Adams, Bethany Collins, and Hank Willis Thomas invite us to reconsider history through themes of struggle in ways that resonate with Lawrence's artistic invention. Statements by these artists amplify how they and Lawrence view history not as distant period of the past but as an active imaginative space that is continuously questioned in the present tense and for future audiences.'