Research Catalog

Title

Souls grown deep like the rivers : Black artists from the American South / exhibition curators, Raina Lampkins-Fielder with Ema Yau, Axel Rüger with Rebecca Bray.

Publication

• London : Royal Academy of Arts, [2023]
• Woodbridge : ACC Artbooks
• New York : Artbook D.A.P.
• ©2023

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Details

Additional Authors

• Lampkins-Fielder, Raina
• Royal Academy of Arts (Great Britain), host institution, issuing body.

Description

141 pages : color illustrations; 26 cm

Summary

"For generations, Black artists from the American South have forged a unique art tradition. Working in near isolation from established practices, they have created masterpieces in clay, driftwood, roots, soil, recycled and cast-off objects that articulate America's painful past--the inhuman practice of enslavement, the cruel segregationist policies of the Jim Crow era, and institutionalised racism. Their works date from the early 20th century to today and respond to issues ranging from economic inequality, oppression and social marginalisation, to sexuality, the influence of place and ancestral memory. Among the sculptures, paintings, reliefs and drawings included here are works by Hawkins Bolden, Thornton Dial, Sam Doyle, Bessie Harvey, Lonnie Holley, Ronald Lockett, Joe Minter, Nellie Mae Rowe, Mary T. Smith, Henry and Georgia Speller, Mose Tolliver, Charles Williams, and Purvis Young. Also featured are the celebrated quiltmakers of Gee's Bend, Alabama, among them Mary Lee Bendolph, Marlene Bennett Jones, Loretta Pettway and Martha Jane Pettway."--

Alternative Title

Black artists from the American South

Subject

• 1900-1999
• African American art > Southern States > Exhibitions
• Artists, Black > Southern States > Exhibitions
• African American artists > Exhibitions
• African American women artists > Exhibitions
• Slavery in art > Exhibitions
• Racism in art > Exhibitions
• Segregation > In art > Exhibitions
• African American art
• Racism
• Artists, Black
• African American artists
• African American women artists
• Slavery in art
• Racism in art
• Segregation
• United States
• Southern States

Genre/Form

• Illustrated works.
• Exhibition catalogs.

Note

• "First published on the occasion of the exhibition 'Souls Grown Deep like the Rivers: Black Artists from the American South', Royal Academy of Arts, 17 March - 18 June 2023"--Title page verso.
• Includes work by artists: Jesse Aaron, Eldren M. Bailey, Mary Lee Bendolph, Loretta Pettway Bennett, Hawkins Bolden, Richard Burnside, Archie Byron, Thornton Dial, Thornton Dial Jr., Richard Dial, Sam Doyle, Rachel Carey George, Ralph Griffin, Bessie Harvey, Lonnie Holley, Marlene Bennett Jones, Joe Light, Ronald Lockett, Charlie Lucas, Joe Minter, Flora Moore, John B. Murray, Essie Bendolph Pettway, Loretta Pettway, Martha Jane Pettway, Nellie Mae Rowe, Georgia Speller, Henry Speller, Mary T. Smith, Jimmy Lee Sudduth, James 'Son Ford' Thomas, Mose Tolliver, Charles Williams, and Purvis Young.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

President's foreword / Rebecca Salter PRA -- Preface / Maxwell L. Anderson -- Stories of reclamation / Raina Lampkins-Fielder -- Catalogue plates -- Biographies of the artists / Rebecca Bray, Emma Yau.

Call Number

Sc F 23-466

ISBN

• 9781912520954
• 1912520958

OCLC

1346213334

Title

Souls grown deep like the rivers : Black artists from the American South / exhibition curators, Raina Lampkins-Fielder with Ema Yau, Axel Rüger with Rebecca Bray.

Publisher

London : Royal Academy of Arts, [2023]

Distributor

Woodbridge : ACC Artbooks

New York : Artbook D.A.P.

Copyright Date

©2023

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Chronological Term

1900-1999

Added Author

Lampkins-Fielder, Raina, curator.

Royal Academy of Arts (Great Britain), host institution, issuing body.

Research Call Number

Sc F 23-466