Research Catalog

Title

Southern/modern : rediscovering southern art from the first half of the twentieth century / edited by Jonathan Stuhlman and Martha R. Severens ; forewords by Todd A. Herman and William R. Ferris.

Publication

Chapel Hill : The Mint Museum in association with the University of North Carolina Press, 2023.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Herman, Todd A.
• Ferris, William R.
• Stuhlman, Jonathan
• Severens, Martha R., 1945-
• Mint Museum (Charlotte, N.C.), host institution.

Description

280 pages : illustrations (colour); 31 cm

Summary

"Drawn from a companion exhibition, Southern/Modern is the first book to survey progressive art created in the American South during the first half of the twentieth century. Featuring twelve essays, this lavishly illustrated volume catalogs works from the exhibition and assesses a broader body of contextual pieces to offer a fascinating, multipronged look at modernism's thriving presence in the South-until now, something largely overlooked in histories of American art"--

Subject

• 1900-1999
• Art, American > Southern States > 20th century > Exhibitions
• Modernism (Art) > Southern States > Exhibitions
• Art, Modern > Exhibitions
• Art, American
• Art, Modern
• Modernism (Art)
• Southern States

Genre/Form

Exhibition catalogs.

Note

• "This book was published in conjunction with the exhibition Southern/Modern, organized by The Mint Museum, Charlotte, NC ...; Georgia Museum of Art, Athens, GA, June 17-December 10, 2023, Frist Art Museum, Nashville, TN, January 25-April 21, 2024, Dixon Gallery and Gardens, Memphis, TN, July 14-September 29, 2024, The Mint Museum, Charlotte, NC, October 26, 2024-February 2, 2025"--Title page verso.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Red clay under my nails: how a Connecticut Yankee dug into the South / Jonathan Stuhlman -- The alchemy of modernism: extractive industries and the southern modern landscape / Jeffrey Richmond-Moll -- Earnest endeavors: art colonies in the Deep South / William Underwood Eiland -- Bringing modernism home / Karen Towers Klacsmann -- Labor, lynching, and the Lord: parsing the iconography of African American representation in southern art / Rebecca VanDiver -- The sonic foundations of southern modernism / Leo G. Mazow -- Carrying the South: artists leaving and returning / Katelyn D. Crawford -- The unprecedented flowering of the graphic arts / Martha R. Severens -- Historically Black colleges and universities: pioneers of southern modernism / Shawnya Harris -- Clashing currents: contemporary art exhibitions and modernism in Richmond,1938-1970 / Christopher C. Oliver -- Alma Thomas's southern draw/l / Jonathan Frederick Walz -- Inside rooms: abstract painting in the South / Daniel Belasco.

Call Number

N6520

ISBN

• 9781469674087
• 1469674084
• 9781469674094 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

2022045780

OCLC

• 1391176214
• on1391176214
• SCSB-14614353

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries