Format:
ix, 215 Seiten
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31cm
ISBN:
0300263171
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9780300263176
Content:
This revelatory book shines a light on the understudied but important influence of African Modernism on the work of Black American artist Jacob Lawrence (1917-2000). In 1965, a New York gallery displayed Lawrence's Nigeria series: eight tempera paintings of Lagos and Ibadan marketplaces that were the culmination of an eight-month stay in Nigeria. Lawrence's residency in Nigeria put him in touch with the Mbari Artists and Writers Club, an international consortium of artists and writers in post-independence Nigeria that published the arts journal Black Orpheus. The book and accompanying exhibition place the Nigeria series alongside issues of Black Orpheus and artwork created by Mbari Club artists, including Uche Okeke, Jacob Afolabi, Susanne Wenger, and Naoko Matsubara. Diverse essays explore the influence of Africa's post-colonial movement on American modernists and developing African artists; the women of the Mbari group; and the importance of art publications in circulating knowledge globally. Exhibition: Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, VA, USA (07.10.2022 - 08.01.2023)
Note:
Seite [216]: Published on the occasion of the exhibition "Black Orpheus: Jacob Lawrence and the Mbari Club", organized by the Chrysler Museum of Art and the New Orleans Museum of Art. Chrysler Museum of Art, October 7 2022-January 8, 2023; New Orleans Museum of Art, February 10-May 7, 2023; Toledo Museum of Art, June 3-September 3, 2023
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Introduction: Transcontinental Dialogues -- Jacob Lawrence: A Journey to Nigeria -- The History of Black Orpheus and the Mbari Collective -- Women in Mbari: (Re)Discovering Three Artistic Practices -- Positive Shock: African American Artists in Africa, 1853-1977 -- The Brazil of Black Orpheus -- Immense and Unceasing Modulation: The Transnational Practice of Three African Artists -- Fragments: Jacob Lawrence and the Osogbo Episode -- An Mbari Redivivus: Reconstructing the Mbari Years -- Modern Nigerian Art and Its Trajectories
Language:
English
Subjects:
Art History
Keywords:
Lawrence, Jacob 1917-2000
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Mbari Writers' and Artists' Club
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Geschichte 1960-2000
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Bildband
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