Elizabeth Catlett: In the Image of the People - Brossura

Herzog, Melanie Anne

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0300116128 ISBN 13: 9780300116120

Casa editrice: Art Inst of Chicago, 2005

Riassunto

Painter, sculptor, and printmaker Elizabeth Catlett (b. 1915) played an influential role in America's African American and Mexico's revolutionary art communities in the mid-twentieth century. Catlett studied at the University of Iowa (where she briefly worked with Grant Wood), the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and the Art Students League in New York before moving to Mexico in 1947.
Focusing on Catlett’s evocative Negro Woman series from 1946?47, this book reveals Catlett’s commitment to social and political issues. All of the fifteen linoleum prints are beautifully reproduced and together address the harsh reality of black women’s labor; renowned historical heroines such as Sojourner Truth, Harriet Tubman, and Phillis Wheatley; and the fears, struggles, and achievements of ordinary African American women. Other notable works by Catlett are also included, and an absorbing essay by distinguished scholar Melanie Anne Herzog analyzes the artist’s powerful work from a biographical perspective.

Su questo libro

L'autore:

Melanie Anne Herzog is Professor of Art History and Director of Women’s and Gender Studies at Edgewood College in Madison, Wisconsin, and author of Elizabeth Catlett: An American Artist in Mexico.

Product Description:

Book by Herzog Melanie Anne

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Art Inst of Chicago
• Data di pubblicazione: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0300116128
• ISBN 13: 9780300116120
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 40