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"Something over something else" : Romare Bearden's Profile series

Title
"Something over something else" : Romare Bearden's Profile series / essays by Stephanie Mayer Heydt, Robert G. O'Meally, Rachael Z. DeLue, Paul Devlin ; with an introduction by Ruth Fine.
Publication
  • Atlanta, Georgia : High Museum of Art ; Seattle, Washington : University of Washington Press, [2019]
  • ©2019

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Additional Authors
  • Bearden, Romare, 1911-1988
  • Bearden, Romare, 1911-1988.
  • Fine, Ruth, 1941-
  • Heydt, Stephanie Mayer
  • O'Meally, Robert G., 1948-
  • DeLue, Rachael Ziady
  • Devlin, Paul
  • High Museum of Art, issuing body, publisher, organizer, host institution.
  • Cincinnati Art Museum, host institution.
  • University of Washington Press, publisher.
Description
149 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), portraits, facsimiles; 29 cm
Summary
"In November 1977, the 'New Yorker' published a feature-length biography of artist Romare Bearden by Calvin Tomkins as part of its Profiles series. The essay, titled 'Profiles: Putting Something Over Something Else' (using Bearden's words to describe the creative process), brought national focus to the artist, whose rise had seemed nearly meteoric since the late 1960s. The experience of the interview prompted Bearden to launch an autobiographical collection he called 'Profiles'. He sequenced the project in two parts: 'Part I, The Twenties,' which featured memories from his youth in the South and in Pittsburgh, and 'Part II, The Thirties,' about his early adult life in New York. Bearden collaborated with friend and writer Albert Murray on a short statement to accompany each piece. These appeared scripted onto the walls of the 'Profile' exhibition to lead viewers on a visual and poetic journey. This landmark publication reassembles and reconsiders Bearden's 'Profile' series. Beyond providing the opportunity to explore and understudied body of work, the project investigates the roles of narrative and self-presentation for an artist who made a career of creating works based on memory and experience. It also reveals Bearden's own gestures away from the autobiographical and toward a broader view."--
Alternative Title
Romare Bearden's Profile series
Subject
  • Bearden, Romare, 1911-1988 > Exhibitions
  • Bearden, Romare, 1911-1988 > Criticism and interpretation
  • Bearden, Romare, 1911-1988 > Themes, motives
  • Bearden, Romare, 1911-1988
  • 1900-1999
  • Collage, American > 20th century > Exhibitions
  • African American art > United States > 20th century > Exhibitions
  • African Americans in art > 20th century > Exhibitions
  • African American artists > North Carolina > 20th century > Exhibitions
  • African American art
  • African American artists
  • African Americans in art
  • Collage, American
  • Themes, motives
  • North Carolina
  • United States
Genre/Form
  • Criticism, interpretation, etc.
  • Essays.
  • Exhibition catalogs.
  • Illustrated works.
Note
  • Published on the occasion of the exhibition at the High Museum of Art, Atlanta, September 14, 2019 - February 2, 2020 ; Cincinnati Art Museum, Ohio, February 28 - May 24, 2020.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
Event (note)
  • "'Something Over Something Else': Romare Bearden's Profile Series"
Language (note)
  • Text in English.
Contents
Director's foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Romare Bearden : organizing chaos; an introduction / Ruth Fine -- Self-revealing : autobiography, narrative, and Bearden's Profile series / Stephanie Mayer Heydt -- A profile view of Bearden's Profile series : Robert G. O'Meally -- The shape of the self : Romare Bearden's Artist with painting and model / Rachael Z. DeLue -- Two American modernists, second-person singular : Albert Murray's words in Romare Bearden's Profiles / Paul Devlin -- Plates -- Appendix 1. "Reflections on the Exhibition, Profile/Part I" / Romare Bearden -- Appendix 2. "Profiles: putting something over something else" / Calvin Tomkins -- Checklist of the exhibition.
ISBN
  • 0295746432
  • 9780295746432
LCCN
2019905647
OCLC
  • on1104049243
  • SCSB-9658347
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library