Research Catalog

Title

Jacob Lawrence : the American struggle / edited by Elizabeth Hutton Turner and Austen Barron Bailly ; with contributions by Derrick Adams, Sandy Alexandre [and 35 others].

Author

Lawrence, Jacob, 1917-2000

Publication

• Salem, Massachusetts : Peabody Essex Museum ; Seattle, Washington : University of Washington Press, 2019.
• ©2019

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Details

Additional Authors

• Turner, Elizabeth Hutton, 1952-
• Bailly, Austen Barron
• Peabody Essex Museum, organizer, host institution.
• Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.), host institution.
• Birmingham Museum of Art (Birmingham, Ala.), host institution.
• Seattle Art Museum, host institution.
• Phillips Collection, host institution.

Description

188 pages : illustrations (chiefly color); 33 cm

Summary

"This publication sets the precedent for the next generation of Lawrence scholars and studies in modern and contemporary discourse. The American Struggle explores Jacob Lawrence's radical way of transforming history into art by looking at his thirty panel series of paintings, Struggle . . . from the History of the American People (1954-56). Essays by Steven Locke, Elizabeth Hutton Turner, Austen Barron Bailly, and Lydia Gordon mark the historic reunion of this series--seen together in this exhibition for the first time since 1958. In entries on the panels, a multitude of voices responds to the episodes representing struggle from American history that Lawrence chose to activate in his series. The American Struggle reexamines Lawrence's lost narrative and its power for twenty-first century audiences by including contemporary art and artists. Derrick Adams, Bethany Collins, and Hank Willis Thomas invite us to reconsider history through themes of struggle in ways that resonate with Lawrence's artistic invention. Statements by these artists amplify how they and Lawrence view history not as distant period of the past but as an active imaginative space that is continuously questioned in the present tense and for future audiences."--

Subject

• Lawrence, Jacob, 1917-2000. > Exhibitions
• Lawrence, Jacob, 1917-2000 > Exhibitions
• Lawrence, Jacob, 1917-2000
• 1900-1999
• African American painters > Exhibitions
• African American artists > Exhibitions
• History in art > Exhibitions
• Narrative painting, American > 20th century > Exhibitions
• African Americans in art
• African Americans > Civil rights > In art
• Black people in art
• Blacks in art
• History in art
• Narrative painting, American

Genre/Form

Exhibition catalogs.

Note

• "This book is published on the occasion of the exhibition Jacob Lawrence: The American Struggle organized by the Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, Massachusetts"--Title page verso.
• Exhibition itinerary: Peabody Essex Museum, January 18-April 26, 2020; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, June 2-September 7, 2020; Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, Alabama, October 17, 2020-January 10, 2021; Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, February 25-May 31, 2021; The Phillips Collection, Washington, DC, June 26-September 19, 2021.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 178-180) and index.

Contents

'I, too, sing America' / Steve Locke -- Reading history : recovering Jacob Lawrence's lost American narrative / Elizabeth Hutton Turner -- To and from Decatur Street : Jacob Lawrence's Brooklyn and the War of 1812 Struggle panels / Austen Barron Bailly -- Struggle : from the History of the American people : the panels -- History forward : Jacob Lawrence's Struggle series and contemporary art / Lydia Gordon -- Contemporary artists statements and plates / Bethany Collins, Hank Willis Thomas, Derrick Adams -- Jacob Lawrence and the Struggle years : a chronology -- Jacob Lawrence's research for the Struggle series -- Titling Jacob Lawrence's Struggle paintings : captions and inscriptions.

Call Number

Sc+ G 20-25

ISBN

• 9780295747040
• 0295747048

LCCN

2019021203

OCLC

1100451259

Author

Lawrence, Jacob, 1917-2000, artist.

Title

Jacob Lawrence : the American struggle / edited by Elizabeth Hutton Turner and Austen Barron Bailly ; with contributions by Derrick Adams, Sandy Alexandre [and 35 others].

Publisher

Salem, Massachusetts : Peabody Essex Museum ; Seattle, Washington : University of Washington Press, 2019.

Copyright Date

©2019

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 178-180) and index.

Chronological Term

1900-1999

Local Subject

Black author.

Added Author

Turner, Elizabeth Hutton, 1952- editor.

Bailly, Austen Barron, editor.

Peabody Essex Museum, organizer, host institution.

Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.), host institution.

Birmingham Museum of Art (Birmingham, Ala.), host institution.

Seattle Art Museum, host institution.

Phillips Collection, host institution.

Research Call Number

Sc+ G 20-25

Sc Art G 22-1