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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Convening polyphonous voices from past and present, I Will Keep My Soul is an orchestral layering of photography, historical documents, poetry and interviews, rooted in the history, geography and community of New Orleans.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
  • Artists' models, Black > Exhibitions
  • Black people in art > Exhibitions
  • Art, Modern > 21st century > Exhibitions
  • ART / General
  • New Orleans (La.) > In art > Exhibitions
  • Louisiana > New Orleans
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.
ISBN
  • 1938221338
  • 9781938221330
LCCN
99994963205
OCLC
  • on1360267684
  • 1360267684
  • SCSB-14667634
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries