Souls Grown Deep like the Rivers
Black Artists from the American South
$49.83
- Hardcover
144 pages
- Release Date
21 February 2023
Summary
A wide-ranging survey of Black art in the American South, from Thornton Dial and Nellie Mae Rowe to the quilters of Gee’s Bend.
For generations, Black artists from the American South have forged a unique art tradition. Working in near isolation from established practices, they have created masterpieces in clay, driftwood, roots, soil, recycled and cast-off objects that articulate America’s painful past – the inhuman practice of enslavement, the cruel segregationist policies of the Jim…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781912520954 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1912520958 |
| Author: | Maxwell L. Anderson, Raina Lampkins-Fielder |
| Publisher: | Royal Academy of Arts |
| Imprint: | Royal Academy of Arts |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 144 |
| Release Date: | 21 February 2023 |
| Weight: | 738g |
| Dimensions: | 20mm x 267mm x 198mm |
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Speaks, above all, to the cultural life that has prevailed in communities shaped by histories of African exploitation and enslavement on the other side of the Atlantic Ocean, and that contrast, though uneasy, feels generative, too, and perhaps the first intimation of a longer process of reparation that is to come.–Ashish Ghadiali “Guardian”
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