Research Catalog

Title

Mimi Gross : Lost Atlanta, 1981 / [drawings by Mimi Gross ; text by Phillip March Jones and Daniel Fuller].

Author

Gross, Mimi

Publication

• [Atlanta, GA] : The Atlanta Contemporary ; [Lexington, KY] : Institute 193, [2019?]
• ©2019

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Details

Additional Authors

• Fuller, Daniel
• March Jones, Phillip
• Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, publisher.
• Institute 193 (Arts organization), publisher.

Description

62 unnumbered pages : illustrations; 36 cm

Summary

"From 1979-1981, over twenty-eight children and young adults were abducted and murdered in the city of Atlanta. Collectively known as the Atlanta child murders, the killings drew the attention of the nation and altered daily life in the de facto capital of the South. On June 21, 1981, Wayne Williams was arrested and ultimately convicted of two murders and sentenced to two consecutive life terms. On Mother's Day, May 10, 1981, approximately one month before Williams' arrest, Mimi Gross, an artist and young single mother had just moved into a new apartment in New York City's Tribeca neighborhood. She had read about the events in the New York Times and requested that a friend send her a copy of the Washington Post since they had published images of the children ... The portraits were never intended for public display; they were an essential visual and emotional response to events that overwhelmed Gross, an artist who draws constantly. Gross' drawing, and this book, are tangible reminders of lives lost and time cut short. Viewed nearly forty years after their creation, they have maintained their sense of urgency and exist much like our memories--frozen in time."--Page 2

Alternative Title

Lost Atlanta 1981

Subjects

• African American youth > Crimes against
• Serial murders
• Portrait drawing, American
• Pictorial works
• Exhibition catalogs
• 2000-2099
• Georgia > Atlanta
• African Americans > Pictorial works
• African American youth > Crimes against > Georgia > Atlanta
• Serial murders > Georgia > Atlanta
• Portrait drawing, American > 21st century > Exhibitions
• Gross, Mimi > Exhibitions

Genre/Form

• Exhibition catalogs.
• Pictorial works.

Note

• Published to coincide with the Mimi Gross: Lost Atlanta exhibition held at the Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, June 20 - August 4, 2019.
• Publication year sourced from exhibition website: "A publication titled Lost Atlanta, 1981 will be released July 1, 2019."

Call Number

Sc G 24-52

ISBN

• 9781732848214
• 1732848211

OCLC

1138033271

Author

Gross, Mimi, artist.

Title

Mimi Gross : Lost Atlanta, 1981 / [drawings by Mimi Gross ; text by Phillip March Jones and Daniel Fuller].

Publisher

[Atlanta, GA] : The Atlanta Contemporary ; [Lexington, KY] : Institute 193, [2019?]

Copyright Date

©2019

Type of Content

still image

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Chronological Term

2000-2099

Added Author

Fuller, Daniel, writer of supplementary textual content.

March Jones, Phillip, writer of supplementary textual content.

Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, publisher.

Institute 193 (Arts organization), publisher.

Research Call Number

Sc G 24-52