9780847866953-0847866955-Art and Race Matters: The Career of Robert Colescott

Art and Race Matters: The Career of Robert Colescott

ISBN-13: 9780847866953
ISBN-10: 0847866955
Edition: First Edition
Author: Raphaela Platow, Lowery Stokes Sims
Publication date: 2019
Publisher: Rizzoli Electa
Format: Hardcover 252 pages
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ISBN-13: 9780847866953
ISBN-10: 0847866955
Edition: First Edition
Author: Raphaela Platow, Lowery Stokes Sims
Publication date: 2019
Publisher: Rizzoli Electa
Format: Hardcover 252 pages

Summary

Art and Race Matters: The Career of Robert Colescott (ISBN-13: 9780847866953 and ISBN-10: 0847866955), written by authors Raphaela Platow, Lowery Stokes Sims, was published by Rizzoli Electa in 2019. With an overall rating of 3.7 stars, it's a notable title among other Monographs (Individual Artists, Criticism, Arts History & Criticism, History) books. You can easily purchase or rent Art and Race Matters: The Career of Robert Colescott (Hardcover) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used Monographs books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $6.73.

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The most comprehensive volume devoted to the life and work of pioneering African American artist Robert Colescott, accompanying the largest traveling exhibition of his work ever mounted.

Robert Colescott (1925-2009) was a trailblazing artist, whose august career was as unique as his singular artistic style. Known for figurative satirical paintings that exposed the ugly ironies of race in America from the 1970s through the late 1990s, his work was profoundly influential to the generations of artists that have followed him, such as Kara Walker, Kehinde Wiley, and Henry Taylor, among many others.

This volume surveys the entirety of Colescott's body of work, with contributions by more than ten curators and writers, including a substantive essay by the show's cocurator, the renowned Lowery Stokes Sims. It provides a detailed stylistic analysis of his politically inflected oeuvre, focusing on Colescott's own consideration of his work in the context of the grand traditions of European painting and contemporary polemic. In addition, the book features reminiscences and thought pieces by a variety of family, friends, students, curators, dealers, and scholars on his work as well as a selection of writings by the artist himself. Relying on previously unpublished transcripts of lectures, reviews, and archival materials provided by institutions and individuals, the book will provide a fuller story of the artist's life and career.
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