Research Catalog

Title

Four generations : the Joyner/Giuffrida collection of abstract art / edited by Courtney J. Martin.

Publication

New York : Gregory R. Miller & Co., [2019]

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Details

Additional Authors

Martin, Courtney J.

Description

527 pages : illustrations (some color); 27 cm

Summary

"The Joyner Giuffrida Collection of Abstract Art is widely recognized as one of the most significant collections of modern and contemporary work by African and African Diasporan artists, and Four Generations draws upon the collection's unparalleled holdings to explore the critical contributions made by black artists to the evolution of visual art in the 20th and 21st centuries. Extensively illustrated with hundreds of works in a variety of media, and featuring scholarly texts by leading artists, writers and curators, Four Generations gives an essential overview of some of the most notable artists and movements of the last century, up to and including works being made today. Four major new scholarly essays provide touchstones for the unifying themes of the collection, and provide historical background on the struggles, innovations, communities and questions that have driven the development of African American and African arts-including a new text by Joost Bosland on the reception of contemporary African art after 1989; Susan and Elihu Rose Chief Curator of the Jewish Museum's Norman L. Kleeblatt on the pioneering achievements of Norman Lewis; Tate Modern Senior Curator Mark Godfrey on black artists in the 1960s and 1970s; as well as a crucial look at contemporary art and practice by the book's editor Courtney J. Martin, Assistant Professor of the History of Art and Architecture at Brown University. Short essays on single artists and significant works punctuate each historical chapter, including texts and interviews by noteworthy writers such as Thelma Golden, Philippe Vergne, Thomas J. Lax, Lawrence Rinder, Christopher Bedford and others, on artists like Kara Walker, Mark Bradford, Lorna Simpson, Norman Lewis, Glenn Ligon, Theaster Gates, Clifford Owens, Jennie C. Jones, Julie Mehretu, and more. The catalogue is further illustrated with major works by artists from throughout the last century, such as Beauford Delaney, Jacob Lawrence, Alma Thomas, David Hammons, Sam Gilliam, Lauren Halsey, Oscar Murillo, Jayson Musson, Robin Rhode, Zander Blom, Lynette Yiadom-Boakye and many others. Filled with countless insights and treasures, this revised and expanded edition of Four Generations: The Joyner Giuffrida Collection of Abstract Art is a journey through one of the most exceptional collections of art in America, and through the momentous legacy of African and African Diasporan art from the last hundred years"--

Uniform Title

Four generations (2019)

Subjects

• Art > Private collections
• Catalogs
• United States
• Art > Private collections > United States > Catalogs
• Giuffrida, Alfred J., 1951- > Art collections
• Joyner, Pamela J > Art collections > Catalogs
• African American art > Catalogs
• Art, African > Catalogs
• Art, Abstract > Catalogs

Genre/Form

• catalogs (documents)
• Catalogs
• Catalogs.
• Catalogues.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• Foreword to the first edition / Mary Schmidt Campbell -- Preface to the new edition / Courtney J. Martin -- I. The edge of abstraction: Norman Lewis and the Joyner/Giuffrida Collection / Norman L. Kleeblatt with Lucy H. Partman -- Thomas J. Lax on Alma Thomas -- Lawrence Rinder on Richard Mayhew -- James Rondeau on Edward Clark -- Selected works by: Charles Alston, Romare Bearden, Elizabeth Catlett, Robert Colescott, Beauford Delaney, Reginald Gammon, Herbert Gentry, Felrath Hines, Alvin Hollingsworth, Richard Hunt, Loïs Mailou Jones, Jacob Lawrence, Hughie Lee-Smith, Sam Middleton, Merton D. Simpson, Vincent D. Smith, Hale Woodruff -- II. Abstraction in tryin' times, 1967-1980 / Mark Godfrey -- Nicholas Cullinan on Sam Gilliam -- Jamillah James on Charles Gaines -- Mark Godfrey on Jack Whitten -- Selected works by: Emma Amos, McArthur Binion, Frank Bowling, Melvin Edwards, David Hammons, Virginia Jaramillo, Daniel LaRue Johnson, Alvin Loving Jr., Joe Overstreet, Martin Puryear, Raymond Saunders, John T. Scott, William T. Williams -- III. Style, influence, and the freestyle generation / Courtney J. Martin -- Thelma Golden in conversation with Glenn Ligon -- Jacqueline Francis on Lorna Simpson -- Jessica Morgan in conversation with Leonardo Drew -- Christopher Bedford on Jennie C. Jones -- Hannah Johnston on Julie Mehretu -- Jen Mergel in conversation with Shinique Smith -- Alexis Clark on Clifford Owens -- Philippe Vergne on Kara Walker -- Gary Garrels on Theaster Gates -- Courtney J. Martin in conversation with Mark Bradford and Charles Gaines -- Selected works by: Radcliffe Bailey, Dawoud Bey, Chakaia Booker, David Huffman, Isaac Julien, Simone Leigh, Kerry James Marshall, Ealy Mays, Gary Simmons, Juana Valdes, Cullen B. Washington Jr., Amanda Williams
• IV. Forward and backward: A gesture in time / Katy Siegel -- Alexis Clark on Hank Willis Thomas -- Franklin Sirmans on Samuel Levi Jones -- Andrianna Campbell on Firelei Báez -- Gary Garrels on Kevin Beasley -- Gary Garrels in conversation with Kevin Beasley -- Selected works by: Jordan Casteel, Bethany Collins, Brendan Fernandes, Lauren Halsey, Matthew Angelo Harrison, Caroline Kent, Manuel Mathieu, Hugo McCloud, Oscar Murillo, Jayson Musson, Angel Otero, Julia Phillips, Christina Quarles, Sienna Shields, Tavares Strachan -- V. The Africa paradox / Joost Bosland -- Elvira Dyangani Ose on Robin Rhode -- Zoé Whitley on Lynette Yiadom-Boakye -- Eungie Joo on Kemang Wa Lehulere -- Selected works by: Igshaan Adams, Michael Armitage, Zander Blom, Nolan Oswald Dennis, Jadé Fadojutimi, Jared Ginsburg, Nicholas Hlobo, Mawande Ka Zenzile, Bronwyn Katz, William Kentridge, Moshekwa Langa, Meleko Mokgosi, Serge Alain Nitegeka, Odili Donald Odita, Toyin Ojih Odutola, Yinka Shonibare, Mikhael Subotzky -- Curators' and artists' salon / Pamela J. Joyner and Alfred J. Giuffrida in conversation with Courtney J. Martin -- Afterword.

ISBN

• 9781941366264
• 1941366260

LCCN

2019024884

OCLC

• on1104920240
• 1104920240
• SCSB-9593951

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library