即兴曲和关系:非洲裔美国艺术家和欧洲现代主义传统呈现了20世纪和21世纪非洲裔美国艺术家的作品,以及他们所从事的20世纪早期欧洲艺术家的作品。一个多世纪以来,黑人艺术家对欧洲艺术的美学、象征主义和民族精神进行了调查、审问、入侵、纠缠、消灭或沉浸。这种关系的强大推动和拉动构成了许多非裔美国艺术家的独特传统,他们从艺术史的主要叙述中获得批评、拥抱或主张自己的空间。这一开创性的目录-伴随着在菲利普斯收藏在华盛顿特区的一个主要展览-探索了艺术家的作品,如罗马尔比尔登,巴勃罗毕加索,信仰林戈尔德,蕾妮考克斯,罗伯特科尔斯科特,诺曼刘易斯,汉克威利斯托马斯,嘉莉梅威姆斯和亨利马蒂斯现代主义的联系和摩擦。该卷探讨了如何黑色往往是从这些国际和代际联系的立场构思,并提出了这些重要的对话所产生的分歧和复杂的作品。 A timely consideration of African-American artists' rich engagement with the history of art from the twentieth century, this book is the winner of the James A. Porter and David C. Driskell Book Award for African American Art History.
Riffs and Relations: African American Artists and the European Modernist Tradition presents works by African American artists of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries together with works by the early-twentieth-century European artists with whom they engaged. Black artists have investigated, interrogated, invaded, entangled, annihilated, or immersed themselves in the aesthetics, symbolism, and ethos of European art for more than a century. The powerful push and pull of this relationship constitutes a distinct tradition for many African American artists who source the master narratives of art history to critique, embrace, or claim their own space. This groundbreaking catalog--accompanying a major exhibition at the Phillips Collection in Washington, D.C.--explores the connections and frictions around modernism in the works of artists such as Romare Bearden, Pablo Picasso, Faith Ringgold, Renee Cox, Robert Colescott, Norman Lewis, Hank Willis Thomas, Carrie Mae Weems and Henri Matisse. The volume explores how blackness has often been conceived from the standpoint of these international and intergenerational connections and presents the divergent and complex works born of these important dialogues.
Review "This show couldn’t have arrived at a better time. Right after the MoMA reopened, making a huge splash by rethinking the canon, including placing work by African American artists in striking juxtaposition with modern masters...the Phillips Collection is organizing a show dedicated to further articulating these often-powerful connections. Shaking up the narrative of Modern art is no easy task. Guest curator Adrienne Childs explores how artists like Romare Bearden and Robert Colescott reimagined canonical works of European art in their depictions of African American life. Working in the vein of Modern abstractionists, artists Alma Thomas and Martin Puryear are celebrated for creating an aesthetic language for African American artists that challenged the racial politics hounding black art at the time....And these are only a few examples of the African American heavyweights in this show, who are set alongside Modern art luminaries. As investigations into the true narrative (or narratives) of Modern art continue, this show will provide a much-needed jolt of energy in the rebooting of the canon." —ARTAGENCYPARTNERS.COM
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