Kerry James Marshall: Mastry
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The definitive monograph on contemporary African American painter Kerry James Marshall. This monograph celebrates the work of Kerry James Marshall, one of America’s greatest living painters. Born before the passage of the Civil Rights Act, in Birmingham, Alabama, and witness to the Watts riots in 1965, Marshall has long been an inspired and imaginative chronicler of the African American experience. Best known for large-scale interiors, landscapes, and portraits featuring powerful Black figures, Marshall explores narratives of African American history from slave ships to the present and draws upon his deep knowledge of art history from the Renaissance to twentieth-century abstraction, as well as other sources such as the comic book and the muralist tradition. With luscious color and brushstrokes and highly detailed patterning, his direct and intimate scenes of Black life conjure a wide range of emotions, resulting in powerful paintings that confront the position of African Americans throughout American history. Richly illustrated, this monumental book features essays by noted curators as well as the artist, and more than 100 paintings from throughout the artist’s career arranged thematically by subject: history painting; beauty, as expressed through the nude, portraiture, and self-portraiture; landscape; religion; and the politics of Black nationalism.
Editors' Note
Kerry James Marshall was born in 1955 in Birmingham, Alabama. The subject matter of his paintings, installations, and public projects is drawn from African American culture and rooted in the geography of his upbringing. Marshall received a resident fellowship from the Studio Museum in Harlem in 1985. In 1991 he was awarded a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. From 1993 to 2006 he taught at the School of Art and Design at the University of Illinois, Chicago. In 1997 he received a MacArthur Foundation Grant, an invitation to show his work at documenta 10, and a place in the Whitney Biennial. He also participated in the 1999/2000 Carnegie International Exhibition and in the 2003 Venice Biennale. His 2016 exhibition, Mastry, at The Met Breuer, broke new ground as one of the largest museum retrospectives of a living Black artist to date.
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The definitive monograph on contemporary African American painter Kerry James Marshall. This monograph celebrates the work of Kerry James Marshall, one of America’s greatest living painters. Born before the passage of the Civil Rights Act, in Birmingham, Alabama, and witness to the Watts riots in 1965, Marshall has long been an inspired and imaginative chronicler of the African American experience. Best known for large-scale interiors, landscapes, and portraits featuring powerful Black figures, Marshall explores narratives of African American history from slave ships to the present and draws upon his deep knowledge of art history from the Renaissance to twentieth-century abstraction, as well as other sources such as the comic book and the muralist tradition. With luscious color and brushstrokes and highly detailed patterning, his direct and intimate scenes of Black life conjure a wide range of emotions, resulting in powerful paintings that confront the position of African Americans throughout American history. Richly illustrated, this monumental book features essays by noted curators as well as the artist, and more than 100 paintings from throughout the artist’s career arranged thematically by subject: history painting; beauty, as expressed through the nude, portraiture, and self-portraiture; landscape; religion; and the politics of Black nationalism.
Editors' Note
Kerry James Marshall was born in 1955 in Birmingham, Alabama. The subject matter of his paintings, installations, and public projects is drawn from African American culture and rooted in the geography of his upbringing. Marshall received a resident fellowship from the Studio Museum in Harlem in 1985. In 1991 he was awarded a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. From 1993 to 2006 he taught at the School of Art and Design at the University of Illinois, Chicago. In 1997 he received a MacArthur Foundation Grant, an invitation to show his work at documenta 10, and a place in the Whitney Biennial. He also participated in the 1999/2000 Carnegie International Exhibition and in the 2003 Venice Biennale. His 2016 exhibition, Mastry, at The Met Breuer, broke new ground as one of the largest museum retrospectives of a living Black artist to date.
Details
The definitive monograph on contemporary African American painter Kerry James Marshall. This monograph celebrates the work of Kerry James Marshall, one of America’s greatest living painters. Born before the passage of the Civil Rights Act, in Birmingham, Alabama, and witness to the Watts riots in 1965, Marshall has long been an inspired and imaginative chronicler of the African American experience. Best known for large-scale interiors, landscapes, and portraits featuring powerful Black figures, Marshall explores narratives of African American history from slave ships to the present and draws upon his deep knowledge of art history from the Renaissance to twentieth-century abstraction, as well as other sources such as the comic book and the muralist tradition. With luscious color and brushstrokes and highly detailed patterning, his direct and intimate scenes of Black life conjure a wide range of emotions, resulting in powerful paintings that confront the position of African Americans throughout American history. Richly illustrated, this monumental book features essays by noted curators as well as the artist, and more than 100 paintings from throughout the artist’s career arranged thematically by subject: history painting; beauty, as expressed through the nude, portraiture, and self-portraiture; landscape; religion; and the politics of Black nationalism.
Editors' Note
Kerry James Marshall was born in 1955 in Birmingham, Alabama. The subject matter of his paintings, installations, and public projects is drawn from African American culture and rooted in the geography of his upbringing. Marshall received a resident fellowship from the Studio Museum in Harlem in 1985. In 1991 he was awarded a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. From 1993 to 2006 he taught at the School of Art and Design at the University of Illinois, Chicago. In 1997 he received a MacArthur Foundation Grant, an invitation to show his work at documenta 10, and a place in the Whitney Biennial. He also participated in the 1999/2000 Carnegie International Exhibition and in the 2003 Venice Biennale. His 2016 exhibition, Mastry, at The Met Breuer, broke new ground as one of the largest museum retrospectives of a living Black artist to date.
Reviews
"Kerry James Marshall is the first comprehensive study of the life and oeuvre of one of America's greatest modern painters. Marshall has not received the attention he deserves and Kerry James Marshall aims to change that. This book is packed with stunning replicas of Marshall's paintings. It is simply a pleasure to hold it. It is a must have for all students and experts of painting." -The Washington Book Review
"This beautifully conceived and produced catalog for a 2016-17 survey organized jointly by the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, The Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles is a stunning overview." —ARTBLOG
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288 pages
Published by Skira Rizzoli
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