Author: Yelen, Alice Rae et al.
Title: Passionate Visions of the American South: Self-Taught Artists from 1940 to the Present
Description: New Orleans, LA, New Orleans Museum of Art ; Jackson, MS : Distributed by University Press of Mississippi, 1993. Hardcover. Green embossed cloth with greenish color pictorial dustjacket. 351 pp. 213 color plates. Text by Alice Rae Yelen. Includes seven essays, color plates and commentary, artists' biographies, checklist of the exhibition, bibliography and index. Published to accompany the exhibition held in New Orleans, LA: New Orleans Museum of Art, Oct. 23, 1993 to Jan. 30, 1994, four other locations. Contents as follows: Foreword / E. John Bullard -- Folk art and the American South / William Ferris -- Self-taught artists : who they are / Alice Rae Yelen -- The art of the self-taught/the art of our time / Jane Livingston -- Artists, folk and trained : an African-American perspective / Lowery Stokes Sims -- A view from a distant shore / Susan Larsen -- The setting : the South / Alice Rae Yelen -- Materials and environments / Alice Rae Yelen -- Color plates and commentary / Alice Rae Yelen. Autobiography ; Daily life ; Religious and visionary imagery ; Social commentary and popular culture ; Patriotism ; Nature -- Artists' biographies / Kimberly Nichols. In recent years, the artwork of the self-taught has gained increasing recognition in the mainstream art world. The New Orleans Museum of Art, a leading institution in the field, organized this exhibition identifying and documenting the superb aesthetic achievement of selected artists from thirteen Southern states who, by definition, have not sought didactic art training, traditional diplomas, or association with other artists or with the established art world in general. This overview of painting and sculpture is the first large-scale effort to consider the work of self-taught Southern artists according to intrinsic artistic merit and without regard to race, religion, or gender.--Adapted from foreword, p. 6. VG/VG .
Keywords: American Art ; Self-Taught Artists ; ; Museum Exhibitions - American Art
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Title: Passionate Visions of the American South: Self-Taught Artists from 1940 to the Present
Description: New Orleans, LA, New Orleans Museum of Art ; Jackson, MS : Distributed by University Press of Mississippi, 1993. Hardcover. Green embossed cloth with greenish color pictorial dustjacket. 351 pp. 213 color plates. Text by Alice Rae Yelen. Includes seven essays, color plates and commentary, artists' biographies, checklist of the exhibition, bibliography and index. Published to accompany the exhibition held in New Orleans, LA: New Orleans Museum of Art, Oct. 23, 1993 to Jan. 30, 1994, four other locations. Contents as follows: Foreword / E. John Bullard -- Folk art and the American South / William Ferris -- Self-taught artists : who they are / Alice Rae Yelen -- The art of the self-taught/the art of our time / Jane Livingston -- Artists, folk and trained : an African-American perspective / Lowery Stokes Sims -- A view from a distant shore / Susan Larsen -- The setting : the South / Alice Rae Yelen -- Materials and environments / Alice Rae Yelen -- Color plates and commentary / Alice Rae Yelen. Autobiography ; Daily life ; Religious and visionary imagery ; Social commentary and popular culture ; Patriotism ; Nature -- Artists' biographies / Kimberly Nichols. In recent years, the artwork of the self-taught has gained increasing recognition in the mainstream art world. The New Orleans Museum of Art, a leading institution in the field, organized this exhibition identifying and documenting the superb aesthetic achievement of selected artists from thirteen Southern states who, by definition, have not sought didactic art training, traditional diplomas, or association with other artists or with the established art world in general. This overview of painting and sculpture is the first large-scale effort to consider the work of self-taught Southern artists according to intrinsic artistic merit and without regard to race, religion, or gender.--Adapted from foreword, p. 6. VG/VG .
Keywords: American Art ; Self-Taught Artists ; ; Museum Exhibitions - American Art
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- Book number: 170116
- Book number: 170116
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