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Black Orpheus : Jacob Lawrence and the Mbari Club

Title

Black Orpheus : Jacob Lawrence and the Mbari Club / edited by Kimberli Gant and Ndubuisi Ezeluomba.

Author

Lawrence, Jacob, 1917-2000

Publication

New Haven : Yale University Press ; in association with The Chrysler Museum, Inc. and the New Orleans Museum of Art, [2022]
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Description

ix, 215 pages, 113 numbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color); 32 cm

Summary

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).

Alternative Title

Jacob Lawrence and the Mbari Club

Subject

Genre/Form

Exhibition catalogs.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Exhibitions (note)

Published on the occasion of the exhibition ... 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"--Colophon.

Contents

Introduction: Transcontinental Dialogues / Kimberli Gant and Ndubuisi Ezeluomba -- Jacob Lawrence: A Journey to Nigeria / Kimberli Gant -- The History of Black Orpheus and the Mbari Collective / Ndubuisi Ezeluomba -- Women in Mbari: (Re)Discovering Three Artistic Practices / Katharina Greven, Lena Maumann, and Iheanyi Onwuegbucha -- Positive Shock: African American Artists in Africa, 1853-1977 / Leslie King-Hammond -- The Brazil of Black Orpheus / Juliana Ribeiro Da Silva Bevilacqua -- Immense and Unceasing Modulation: The Transnational Practice of Three African Artists / Suheyla Takesh -- Fragments: Jacob Lawrence and the Osogbo Episode / Peter Probst -- An Mbari Redivivus: Reconstructing the Mbari Years / Obi Nwakanma -- Modern Nigerian Art and Its Trajectories / Frank Ugiomoh

Call Number

Sc F 24-10

ISBN

9780300263176
0300263171

LCCN

2021952766

OCLC

1309962069

Author

Lawrence, Jacob, 1917-2000, artist.

Title

Black Orpheus : Jacob Lawrence and the Mbari Club / edited by Kimberli Gant and Ndubuisi Ezeluomba.

Publisher

New Haven : Yale University Press ; in association with The Chrysler Museum, Inc. and the New Orleans Museum of Art, [2022]

Copyright Date

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Exhibitions

Published on the occasion of the exhibition ... 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"--Colophon.

Local Subject

Black author.

Added Author

Gant, Kimberli, editor.

Ezeluomba, Ndubuisi, editor.

Chrysler Museum, host institution.

New Orleans Museum of Art, host institution.

Toledo Museum of Art, host institution.

Research Call Number

Sc F 24-10

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