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Whitfield Lovell : Deep river

Title
Whitfield Lovell : Deep river / introduction by Kellie Jones ; essay by Julie L. McGee ; afterword by Whitfield Lovell ; edited by Peter Kayafas.
Publication
  • New York : Eakins Press Foundation, [2023]
  • ©2023

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Additional Authors
  • Lovell, Whitfield, 1959-
  • Jones, Kellie, 1959-
  • McGee, Julie L.
  • Kayafas, Peter
Description
165 pages : color illustrations; 34 cm
Summary
Whitfield Lovell is internationally renowned for his installations that incorporate masterful Conte crayon likenesses of African Americans from between the Emancipation Proclamation and the civil rights movement. Using vintage photography as his source, Lovell often pairs his subjects with found objects, evoking personal memories, ancestral connections and the collective American past. Whitfield Lovell: Deep River compiles stunning likenesses of anonymous African American citizens from Lovell's celebrated Deep River installation, which pays homage to "Camp Contraband"--a Union Army site near Chattanooga, Tennessee, that served as a refuge for runaway slaves escaping the Confederate South during the Civil War. The book includes a preface by Kellie Jones and an accompanying essay by the scholar Julie L. McGee, which provides the historical context for these deeply resonant portraits. McGee writes: "Lovell's artistry is a vessel for those ancestral spirits that remain near and communicate with those who are able to make the past tangible, accessible and acutely meaningful."
Uniform Title
Whitfield Lovell (Eakins Press Foundation)
Alternative Title
Deep river
Subject
  • Lovell, Whitfield, 1959-
  • Installations (Art)
  • Tondi
  • African Americans in art
  • installations (visual works)
  • tondi
  • African Americans in art
  • Tondi
  • Chattanooga (Tenn.) > In art
  • Tennessee > Chattanooga
Genre/Form
  • catalogs (documents)
  • Art
  • Catalogs
  • Catalogs.
  • Catalogues.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
Contents
Whitfield Lovell: in and around likeness / Kellie Jones -- Deep River Tondos: plates -- Whitfield Lovell: Recognizing Humanity / Julie L. McGee -- Deep River: The hunt and the flow / Whitfield Lovell.
ISBN
  • 0871300931
  • 9780871300935
OCLC
  • on1367900941
  • 1367900941
  • SCSB-14535381
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library