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Raggin' on : the art of Aminah Brenda Lynn Robinson's house and journals

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Raggin' on : the art of Aminah Brenda Lynn Robinson's house and journals / edited by Carole M. Genshaft ; essays by Ramona Austin, Lisa Gail Collins, Lisa Farrington, Carole M. Genshaft, Deidre Hamlar, Nannette V. Maciejunes, William "Ted" McDaniel, Debra Priestly.

Publication

Columbus, Ohio : Columbus Museum of Art, [2020]
©2020

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Description

235 pages : illlustrations (chiefly color); 24 x 31 cm

Summary

"When artist Aminah Brenda Lynn Robinson, a MacArthur "genius" award recipient, passed away in 2015, she left her estate to the Columbus Museum of Art. Crammed with an array of work ranging from monumental tapestries she called RagGonNons to intricate "sacred manuscript pages" on paper-thin sheets of deerskin, her house and its contents reflect her passion "to fill in the blank pages of African American history with art." Combining text with pen and ink and watercolor drawings, she created button- and beaded- encrusted journals to record her experiences in Europe, South America, and the Middle East and others to expound on the layers of meaning embedded in her work. These objects from the home, which served as her sanctuary and anchor, provide an intimate view of Robinson's creative process. Essays in the catalogue will present new scholarship on Robinson's efforts to correct the omissions of traditional history through work based on her African roots, ancestral ties to slavery, and the Northern Migration. Other essays will explore the confluence of academic training and folk traditions that make her work so distinctive; the importance of her home as a physical, spiritual, emotional foundation; the feminist themes that recur and reverberate in her work; her use of non-traditional materials in the context of contemporary art; and the journal entries she carefully penned and edited late in her career"--

Alternative Title

Ragging on

Subject

Genre/Form

Exhibition catalogs.

Note

"Published in conjunction with the exhibition Raggin' on: Aminah Brenda Lynn Robinson's House and Journals, Columbus Museum of Art, Ohio, curated by Carole M. Genshaft and Deidre Hamlar"--Colophon.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Sacred sanctuary / Deidre Hamlar -- Stay on the path / Debra Priestly -- Songs from the ocean, The journals and memoirs / Carole M. Genshaft -- Passing on what was handed down, The gifts of Aminah Brenda Lynn Robinson / Lisa Gail Collins -- Sankofa and contemporary art / Lisa Farrington -- Aminah's Music / William "Ted" McDaniel -- A song of being : challenges of the art of Aminah Robinson / Ramona Austin.

Call Number

Sc+ E 21-23

ISBN

9780578687360
0578687364

LCCN

2020012328
40030214527

OCLC

1152390886

Title

Publisher

Columbus, Ohio : Columbus Museum of Art, [2020]

Copyright Date

Type of Content

still image

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Container of (work): Maciejunes, Nannette V. (Nannette Vicars). Aminah and the museum.

Container of (work): Austin, Ramona M. Song of being.

Genshaft, Carole Miller, editor, contributor.

Austin, Ramona M., contributor.

Collins, Lisa Gail, contributor.

Farrington, Lisa E., contributor.

Hamlar, Deidre, contributor.

Maciejunes, Nannette V. (Nannette Vicars), contributor.

McDaniel, William Theodore, contributor.

Priestly, Debra, 1961- contributor.

Columbus Museum of Art, host institution.

Other Standard Identifier

40030214527

Research Call Number

Sc+ E 21-23

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