Research Catalog

Title

Painting is a supreme fiction : writings by Jesse Murry, 1980-1993 / edited and with an introduction by Jarrett Earnest ; foreword by Hilton Als.

Author

Murry, Jesse, 1948-1993

Publication

Chicago, IL : Soberscove Press, [2021]

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Details

Additional Authors

• Earnest, Jarrett
• Als, Hilton

Description

307 pages, 16 pages of plates : color illustrations; 21 cm

Summary

Painting Is a Supreme Fiction' presents the writings of artist and poet Jesse Murry (1948-1993), an extraordinary thinker who believed in the capacity of painting to hold the complexity of human meaning. This unprecedented collection brings together his published art criticism with previously unpublished philosophical writing and poetry from 1980 to his tragic death from AIDS-related illness at the age of forty-four. The result is a portrait of an original mind which sought to unite the histories of Romantic landscape painting with the realities of Black experience through ?a belief in the restorative and creative powers of the imagination.? In addition to Murry?s writings, this volume also includes reproductions of selected works; excerpts from a a pair of panel discussions on art criticism and expressionism that took place in 1980; as well as transcriptions of two of the artist?s notebooks, in which the spatialization of the words across the page approaches the condition of thought. 'Painting Is a Supreme Fiction' presents Jesse Murry in his own words, offering intimate access to this remarkable figure.0Jesse Murry: Rising, curated by Lisa Yuskavage and Jarrett Earnest, will open on September 17, 2021 at David Zwirner, New York. Murry's solo show is featured as part of More Life, a focused series of curated solo exhibitions presented on the fortieth anniversary of the ongoing HIV/AIDS crisis.0Exhibition

Subject

• Murry, Jesse, 1948-1993
• Arts
• Art, Black > 21st century > Fiction

Contents

Foreword -- Introduction -- Criticism -- Plates -- Notebook -- Poetry -- Biographies.

Call Number

Sc D 22-707

ISBN

• 9781940190303
• 1940190304

LCCN

2021033129

OCLC

1260170885

Author

Murry, Jesse, 1948-1993, author.

Title

Painting is a supreme fiction : writings by Jesse Murry, 1980-1993 / edited and with an introduction by Jarrett Earnest ; foreword by Hilton Als.

Publisher

Chicago, IL : Soberscove Press, [2021]

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Local Subject

Black author.

Added Author

Earnest, Jarrett, editor.

Als, Hilton, writer of foreword.

Research Call Number

Sc D 22-707