Research Catalog

Title

Kerry James Marshall : mastry / edited by Helen Molesworth.

Author

Marshall, Kerry James, 1955-

Publication

• Chicago : Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago ; New York : Skira Rizzoli Publications, [2016]
• ©2016.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Molesworth, Helen, 1966-
• Alteveer, Ian
• Roelstraete, Dieter
• Tattersall, Lanka
• Museum of Contemporary Art (Chicago, Ill.), host institution, issuing body.
• Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.) host institution.
• Museum of Contemporary Art (Los Angeles, Calif.), host institution.

Description

280 pages : illustrations (chiefly color); 30 cm

Summary

This long-awaited volume celebrates the work of Kerry James Marshall, one of America's greatest living painters. Born before the passage of the Civil Rights Act, in Birmingham, Alabama, and witness to the Watts riots in 1965, Marshall has long been an inspired and imaginative chronicler of the African American experience. Best known for large-scale interiors, landscapes, and portraits featuring powerful black figures, Marshall explores narratives of African American history from slave ships to the present and draws upon his deep knowledge of art history from the Renaissance to twentieth-century abstraction, as well as other sources such as the comic book and the muralist tradition. With luscious color and brushstrokes and highly detailed patterning, his direct and intimate scenes of black middle-class life conjure a wide range of emotions, resulting in powerful paintings that confront the position of African Americans throughout American history.0Richly illustrated, this monumental book features essays by noted curators as well as the artist, and more than 100 paintings from throughout the artist's career arranged thematically by subject: history painting; beauty, as expressed through the nude, portraiture, and self-portraiture; landscape; religion; and the politics of black nationalism. 0Exhibition: Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, USA (23.04-09.09.2016) / Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA (09.2016-01.2017) / Museum of Contemporary, Los Angeles, USA (spring 2017).

Alternative Title

Mastry

Subject

• Marshall, Kerry James, 1955- > Exhibitions
• Marshall, Kerry James, 1955-
• 2000-2099
• African American artists > 21st century > Exhibitions
• Artists, Black > 21st century > Exhibitions
• African Americans in art > Exhibitions
• Painting, American > Exhibitions
• African American artists
• African Americans in art
• Artists, Black
• Painting, American

Genre/Form

• Exhibition catalogs.
• Exhibition catalogs

Note

• This book is published on the occasion of the exhibition organized by and held at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago (April 23-September 25, 2016); The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (October 25, 2016-January 29, 2017); and The Museum of Contemporay Art, Los Angeles (March 12-July 2, 2017).

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 258-260) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Foreword / Madeleine Grynsztejn -- Directors' acknowlegments / Thomas P. Campbell, Madeleine Grynsztejn, Philippe Vergne -- Curators' acknowlegments / Ian Alteveer, Helen Molesworth, Dieter Roelstraete -- A different light : Kerry James Marshall's western exposure / Ian Alteveer -- Thinking of a Mastr Plan : Kerry James Marshall and the Museum / Helen Molesworth -- Visible man : Kerry James Marshall, realist / Dieter Roelstraete -- Black lives, matter / Lanka Tattersall -- Shall I compare thee...? / Kerry James Marshall -- Plates, with catalogue entries by Anna Katz, Karsten Lund, Abigail Winograd -- Writings by Kerry James Marshall, 2000-15 -- Artist's biography -- Kerry James Marshall selects : works from the Metropolitan Museum of Art -- Lenders to the exhibition -- Exhibition sponsors -- Contributors -- Index -- Credits -- Rythm Mastr : Selections.

ISBN

• 9780847848331
• 0847848337

OCLC

• 948822926
• SCSB-12246283

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library