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Melvin Edwards : Lynch fragments

Title
Melvin Edwards : Lynch fragments / edited by Adriano Pedrosa, Rodrigo Moura ; curated by Rodrigo Moura ; texts, Hamid Irbouh [and three others].
Publication
  • São Paulo, Brazil : MASP, [2018]
  • ©2018

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Additional Authors
  • Pedrosa, Adriano
  • Moura, Rodrigo
  • Bittencourt, Renata
  • Wolff, Rebecca
  • Irbouh, Hamid
  • Edwards, Melvin, 1937-
  • Museu de Arte de São Paulo Assis Chateaubriand, issuing body, publisher, organizer, host institution.
Description
250 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), facsimiles, portraits, photographs; 26 cm
Summary
Melvin Edwards (b.1937) is a pioneer in the history of contemporary African-American art and sculpture. Born in Houston, Texas, he began his artistic career at the University of Southern California. The exhibition is the artistœs first solo exhibition in Brazil. It brings together 38 works from the iconic sculpture series by one of the most important American artists of his generation. The exhibited works span more than five decades of his production -from 1963 to 2016- and its starting point coincides with a crucial period of the civil rights movement in the United States.ʺ Page [7]. Edwards uses welds scraps of found metal to create new forms, and the sculpturesœ implicit threat of violence derives in part from the chains, nails, and other tools of which they are constructed. He made this work during and immediately following a residency in Zimbabwe.
Alternative Title
Lynch fragments
Subject
  • Edwards, Melvin, 1937- > Exhibitions
  • Edwards, Melvin, 1937- > Criticism and interpretation
  • Edwards, Melvin, 1937- > Themes, motives
  • Edwards, Melvin, 1937-
  • 1900-2099
  • Metal sculpture, American > 20th century > Exhibitions
  • Metal sculpture, American > 21st century > Exhibitions
  • African American sculpture > 20th century > Exhibitions
  • African American sculpture > 21st century > Exhibitions
  • Sculpture, Abstract > United States > 20th century > Exhibitions
  • Sculpture, Abstract > United States > 21st century > Exhibitions
  • Sculpture, Modern > 20th century > Exhibitions
  • Sculpture, Modern > 21st century > Exhibitions
  • African American sculptors > New York (State) > New York > 20th century > Exhibitions
  • African American sculptors > New York (State) > New York > 21st century > Exhibitions
  • Sculpture en métal américaine > 20e siècle > Expositions
  • Sculpture en métal américaine > 21e siècle > Expositions
  • Sculpture noire américaine > 20e siècle > Expositions
  • Sculpture noire américaine > 21e siècle > Expositions
  • Sculpture abstraite > États-Unis > 20e siècle > Expositions
  • Sculpture abstraite > États-Unis > 21e siècle > Expositions
  • Sculpture > 20e siècle > Expositions
  • Sculpture > 21e siècle > Expositions
  • Sculpteurs noirs américains > New York (État) > New York > 20e siècle > Expositions
  • Sculpteurs noirs américains > New York (État) > New York > 21e siècle > Expositions
  • Themes, motives
  • Sculpture, Modern
  • Sculpture, Abstract
  • African American sculptors
  • African American sculpture
  • Metal sculpture, American
  • Sculpture, American
  • United States
  • New York (State) > New York
Genre/Form
  • Essay
  • exhibition catalogs.
  • essays.
  • illustrated books.
  • Illustrated works.
  • Essays.
  • Criticism, interpretation, etc.
  • Exhibition catalogs.
  • Catalogues d'exposition.
  • Essais.
  • Ouvrages illustrés.
Note
  • Catalog of an exhibition held at Museu de Arte de São Paulo Assis Chateaubriand, August 24-November 22, 2018.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 246-250).
Language (note)
  • Text in English, with translations from the Portuguese.
Contents
Foreword / Itaú Cultural -- Melvin Edwards at MASP / Heitor Martins, Adriano Pedrosa -- Lynch Fragments: pieces of life, shards of history / Rodrigo Moura -- Art for times of insurrection / Renata Bittencourt -- "Nigeria is ok for me!ʺ Memory and history in "Ibadan Oke" (1992) and "Ile Ogun" (2003) / Rebecca Wolff -- Melvin Edwards' Lynch Fragments: Negritude and the battle for civil rights in America / Hamid Irbouh -- Reproductions of the works -- List of the works in the exhibition -- Curriculum -- Selected bibliography.
ISBN
  • 9788531000515
  • 8531000513
OCLC
  • on1061526860
  • 1061526860
  • SCSB-14608545
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries