We Are Made of Stories (eBook)

Self-Taught Artists in the Robson Family Collection

Leslie Umberger (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2022
288 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-24384-9 (ISBN)

Infos

A richly illustrated history of self-taught artists and how they changed American artArtists without formal training, who learned from family, community, and personal journeys, have long been a presence in American art. But it wasn't until the 1980s, with the help of trailblazing advocates, that the collective force of their creative vision and bold self-definition permanently changed the mainstream art world. In We Are Made of Stories, Leslie Umberger traces the rise of self-taught artists in the twentieth century and examines how, despite wide-ranging societal, racial, and gender-based obstacles, they redefined who could be rightfully seen as an artist and revealed a much more diverse community of American makers.Lavishly illustrated throughout, We Are Made of Stories features more than one hundred drawings, paintings, and sculptures, ranging from the narrative to the abstract, by forty-three artists-including James Castle, Thornton Dial, William Edmondson, Howard Finster, Bessie Harvey, Dan Miller, Sister Gertrude Morgan, the Philadelphia Wireman, Nellie Mae Rowe, Judith Scott, and Bill Traylor. The book centralizes the personal stories behind the art, and explores enduring themes, including self-definition, cultural heritage, struggle and joy, and inequity and achievement. At the same time, it offers a sweeping history of self-taught artists, the critical debates surrounding their art, and how museums have gradually diversified their collections across lines of race, gender, class, and ability.Recasting American art history to embrace artists who have been excluded for too long, We Are Made of Stories vividly captures the power of art to show us the world through the eyes of another.Published in association with the Smithsonian American Art MuseumExhibition ScheduleSmithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DCJuly 1, 2022-March 26, 2023

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 4.10.2022
• Zusatzinfo: 154 color + 41 b/w illustrations
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: Aaron Douglas • adage • African Americans • altered state of consciousness • American Folk Art Museum • Anselm Kiefer • Anthropocentrism • ART • art exhibition • Art in America • Artists Rights Society • artist's statement • art movement • Augusta Savage • avant-garde • Beadwork • Ben Ratliff • Biblical Magi • bigotry • Bill Traylor • Book • carny • Cathy • Child of God • clarence schmidt • Clementine Hunter • Collecting • Collection de l'art brut • Collective Action • Comic Strip • Coming out • Compulsory Voting • Cross-dressing • Cultural Identity • Culture • curator • Daniel J. Boorstin • David C. Driskell • Demography • dominant culture • Down syndrome • drawing • Edward Hicks • Electra Havemeyer Webb • Elijah Pierce • elitism • Empathy • Essay • etymology • Federal Art Project • First appearance • Folk Art • Folk Culture • Folklore • Forgetting • George Floyd • Gladys Nilsson • God • Graphic Communication • Gullah • Harcourt (publisher) • Harlem Renaissance • Headline • Henry Darger • Her World • Holger Cahill • Horace Pippin • Ibid (short story) • Imagery • Impasto • indictment • Individual • In the Realms of the Unreal • Intonation (linguistics) • James Johnson Sweeney • James Weldon Johnson • Jargon • Jerry Siegel • Jim Nutt • John Trumbull • Jon Serl • Joseph Yoakum • Journalist • Judith Scott (artist) • Knoxville Museum of Art • Leitmotif • Lonnie Holley • Marino Auriti • Martin Luther King, Jr. • Matthew Higgs • Metaphor • Metonymy • Michael Kimmelman • Mieke Bal • modernism • Modern Primitives (book) • mother • Museum of International Folk Art • Mutability (poem) • Narration • narrative • Nation • Nellie Mae Rowe • Nickname • Oppression • Oral History • Outsider Art • painting • Pantheon Books • Pentecostalism • personal experience • Perversion • Philadelphia Wireman • plantation • Poetry • preface • Publication • Purvis Young • Qualla Boundary • radical criticism • religious text • Reminiscence • Renwick Gallery • Requirement • Roberta Smith • Robert Farris Thompson • Robert Goldwater • Robert Rauschenberg • Robert Smalls • Rodney King • Role • Sam Doyle • Scrap • sculpture • Sender • Shirley Chisholm • Slavery • Sleeve • Smithsonian American Art Museum • Smithsonian Institution • Sobriquet • Storytelling • Subtext • Suggestion • Surrealism • Testimonial • Textile • Their Lives • The Narrative • The Other Hand • The Public Interest • The Village Voice • thimble • This Country • This World (TV series) • Thornburg v. Gingles • Thornton Dial • tomb • Tom Joyce • Ulysses Davis (artist) • Ventriloquism • Voting • Warner Sallman • William Arnett • William Edmondson • Wire sculpture • Wonders of the World • work of art • Writing
• ISBN-10: 0-691-24384-0 / 0691243840
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-24384-9 / 9780691243849