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The unfinished business of unsettled things : art from an African American South / edited by Bernard L. Herman ; with contributions from Celeste-Marie Bernier, Laura Bickford, Michael J. Bramwell, Elijah Heyward III, Sharon P. Holland, Pamela J. Sachant

Published
Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2022]
Physical Description
202 pages, 22 pages of plates : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Additional Creators
Herman, Bernard L., 1951-

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Contents
Introduction: The Unfinished Business of Unsettled Things: Art from an African American South / Bernard L. Herman -- Put Honey in The Sky Where It Could Drip and Make the World Sweet: Looking for Purvis Young and Thomas Samuel Doyle, but Seeing Something Else: Meditations on the Matter of Black Freedom / Sharon Patricia Holland -- We Had to Learn Surviving: Imaging Slavery and Imagining Freedom in "Black Lexicons Of Liberation" / Celeste-Marie Bernier -- Heard a Voice, Saw a Light: Spiritual Implications of Creative Belief in Black Vernacular Art / Michael J. Bramwell -- When Everything Stands Still, That's When the Griot Spirit Come On: History-Making and Assemblage in the African American South / Laura Bickford -- Biography -- Writing Lives; Art -- Viewing Lives / Pamela J. Sachant -- The South Has Always Had Something to Say / Elijah Heyward III.
Summary
"This book invites readers into a growing, dynamic conversation among scholars and critics around a vibrant community of artists from an African American South. This constellation of creative makers includes familiar figures, such as Thornton Dial Sr., Lonnie Holley, and quiltmakers Nettie Young and Mary Lee Bendolph, whose work is collected in major museum and private collections. The artists represented extend to lesser-known but equally compelling creators working across a wide range of artistic forms, themes, and geographies"--
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9781469668529 hardcover
1469668521 hardcover
9781469668536 electronic book
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Endowment Note
Paterno Libraries Endowment
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