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Helen Cammock : I will keep my soul

Title
Helen Cammock : I will keep my soul / essays by Jordan Amirkhani and Andrea Andersson ; a score by Roshanak Kheshti ; a story by Kristina Kay Robinson ; and an afterword by Cameron Shaw ; with excerpts from an interview by Courtney J. Martin.
Publication
New York : Siglio ; New Orleans : Rivers ; Los Angeles : CAAM, 2023.

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Additional Authors
  • Amirkhani, Jordan
  • Andersson, Andrea
  • Kheshti, Roshanak
  • Robinson, Kristina Kay
  • Shaw, Cameron
  • Martin, Courtney J.
  • Cammock, Helen
  • Art + Practice (Nonprofit organization), host institution.
  • California African-American Museum, host institution.
Description
1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations (chiefly color), portraits; 20 x 28 cm
Summary
Convening polyphonous voices from past and present, I Will Keep My Soul is an orchestral layering of photography, historical documents, poetry and interviews, rooted in the history, geography and community of New Orleans. In this tactile artist's book, UK-based artist Helen Cammock (born 1970) traverses the city, rendering her observations and encounters into texts and images that reveal its invisible histories. These sequences are woven with correspondence and photographs from the Amistad Research Center that evince artist Elizabeth Catlett's struggle for agency and support during her 1976 commission to create a bronze monument to Louis Armstrong in Congo Square--a place laden with histories of both oppression and celebration. Cammock interlaces more archival materials--newspaper clippings, instructions for activists, a 19th-century book on Creole slave songs--to articulate the long struggle for civil rights.
Alternative Title
I will keep my soul : Helen Cammock
Subject
  • Cammock, Helen > Exhibitions
  • 2000-2099
  • Artists' models, Black > Exhibitions
  • Black people in art > Exhibitions
  • Art, Modern > 21st century > Exhibitions
  • Black people in art
  • Art, Modern
  • Artists' models, Black
  • New Orleans (La.) > In art > Exhibitions
  • Louisiana > New Orleans
  • Louisiana > Orleans Parish
Genre/Form
  • Exhibition catalogs.
  • Artists' books.
Note
  • Published on the occasion of an exhibition of the same name held at Art + Practice (A+P), Los Angeles, in collaboration with CAAM, February 11-August 5, 2023.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
Call Number
Sc+ C 23-225
ISBN
  • 1938221338
  • 9781938221330
OCLC
1360267684
Title
Helen Cammock : I will keep my soul / essays by Jordan Amirkhani and Andrea Andersson ; a score by Roshanak Kheshti ; a story by Kristina Kay Robinson ; and an afterword by Cameron Shaw ; with excerpts from an interview by Courtney J. Martin.
Publisher
New York : Siglio ; New Orleans : Rivers ; Los Angeles : CAAM, 2023.
Type of Content
text
still image
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references.
Local Subject
Black author.
Chronological Term
2000-2099
Added Author
Amirkhani, Jordan, contributor.
Andersson, Andrea, contributor.
Kheshti, Roshanak, composer.
Robinson, Kristina Kay, contributor.
Shaw, Cameron, contributor.
Martin, Courtney J., interviewer.
Cammock, Helen, interviewee, artist.
Art + Practice (Nonprofit organization), host institution.
California African-American Museum, host institution.
Research Call Number
Sc+ C 23-225
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