Riffs and relations, African-American artists and the European modernist tradition, [exhibition, Washington DC, The Phillips Collection, February 29-May 24 2020]

Rizzoli Electa, in association with The Phillips Collection

2020

1 volume (208 pages) ; ill. en coul., couv. ill. en coul.

29 cm

anglais

Exposition, Washington DC, The Phillips Collection, 2020

978-0-8478-6664-9

Riffs and Relations: African American Artists and the European Modernist Tradition presents works by African American artists of the twentieth and twentyfirst centuries together with works by the earlytwentiethcentury European artists with whom they engaged Black artists have investigated interrogated invaded entangled annihilated or immersed themselves in the aesthetics symbolism and ethos of European art for more than a century The powerful push and pull of this relationship constitutes a distinct tradition for many African American artists who source the master narratives of art history to critique embrace or claim their own space This groundbreaking catalogaccompanying a major exhibition at the Phillips Collection in Washington DCexplores the connections and frictions around modernism in the works of artists such as Romare Bearden Pablo Picasso Faith Ringgold Renee Cox Robert Colescott Norman Lewis Hank Willis Thomas Carrie Mae Weems and Henri Matisse The volume explores how blackness has often been conceived from the standpoint of these international and intergenerational connections and presents the divergent and complex works born of these important dialogues

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