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Testimony : vernacular art of the African-American south : the Ronald and June Shelp collection
- Title
- Testimony : vernacular art of the African-American south : the Ronald and June Shelp collection / essays by Kinshasha Conwill [and others].
- Publication
- New York : H.N. Abrams in association with Exhibitions International and the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, ©2001.
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- Description
- 192 p. : col. ill.; 27 cm.
- Summary
- "For the past two decades, African-American vernacular art of the South - noted for its powerful imagery and colorful palette - has attracted growing art-world interest. This book and its accompanying exhibition, organized by the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture and Exhibitions International, present an extraordinary collection of contemporary work that serves as testimony to the continuing struggle for social justice, cultural identity, and spiritual and personal fulfillment experienced by Southern African Americans." "Drawn from the collection of Ronald and June Shelp, more than 100 paintings, drawings, and sculptures by twenty-seven self-taught black artists are represented. They range from the most celebrated practitioners - such as Thornton Dial Sr., Bessie Harvey, Lonnie Holley, Ronald Lockett, Mose Tolliver, and Purvis Young - to less known but no less fascinating figures such as Archie Byron, J.B. Murray, Lorenzo Scott, and Georgia and Henry Speller. The largest group of works are by Dial and by members of his extended family - Arthur Dial, Richard Dial, Thornton Dial Jr., and Ronald Lockett - permitting a survey of the inter-connections within this Alabama dynasty of artists."--Jacket.
- Subject
- Shelp, Ronald Kent > Art collections > Exhibitions
- Shelp, June > Art collections > Exhibitions
- Shelp, June
- Shelp, Ronald Kent
- Shelp, Ronald Kent > Collections d'art > Catalogues d'exposition
- Shelp, June > Collections d'art > Catalogues d'exposition
- Shelp, June
- Shelp, Ronald Kent
- 1900-1999
- African American art > Southern States > Exhibitions
- Outsider art > Southern States > Exhibitions
- Art, American > 20th century > Exhibitions
- Art > Private collections > United States > Exhibitions
- African American art
- Art, American
- Art > Private collections
- Outsider art
- Ausstellung
- Kunst
- Sammlung
- Art noir américain > États-Unis > Collections privées > Catalogues d'exposition
- Southern States
- United States
- USA > Südstaaten
- Schwärze
- Genre/Form
- exhibition catalogs.
- Exhibition catalogs
- Exhibition catalogs.
- Catalogues d'exposition.
- Kalamazoo (Mich., 2000)
- Note
- Published in conjunction with the exhibition organized by The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York at Kalamazoo Institute of Arts, Kalamazoo, MI, Sept. 15-Nov. 19, 2000 and others through January 2004.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 184-189) and index.
- Contents
- African-American art and contemporary critical practice / Judith M. McWillie -- The end of the outsider / Arthur C. Danto -- Becoming art : life spans, biographies, and the Shelp collection / Grey Gundaker -- Feeling at home with vernacular African-American art / Kinshasha Conwill -- Witnessing : layered meanings in vernacular art / Edmund Barry Gaither -- Witness to history / Leroy Almon [and others] -- Allegorical animals / Thornton Dial Sr. [and others] -- Biblical scenes / Mary Proctor [and others] -- Iconic human figures / Mary Tillman Smith, Archie Byron -- Spiritual and protective messages / John (J.B.) Murray [and others] -- Direct observation / James "Son" Thomas [and others].
- ISBN
- 0810944847
- 9780810944848
- LCCN
- 2001022407
- OCLC
- ocm46366258
- 46366258
- SCSB-1231238
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library