Amy Sherald : American sublime /
"Bringing together nearly all of her artwork to date, this lavishly illustrated volume situates the work of Amy Sherald (b. 1973) within the context of American realist and figurative painting. Encompassing the full arc of her career, from her poetic early works to the distinctive figure painti...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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San Francisco, California : New Haven ; London :
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art ; in association with Yale University Press,
[2024]
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| Summary: | "Bringing together nearly all of her artwork to date, this lavishly illustrated volume situates the work of Amy Sherald (b. 1973) within the context of American realist and figurative painting. Encompassing the full arc of her career, from her poetic early works to the distinctive figure paintings and portraits that have become her hallmark, Amy Sherald: American Sublime unfolds her method of selecting individuals she meets on the street and using facial expression, body language, and clothing choices to create paintings that transcend portraiture and expand the canon of American art. Essays by curators Sarah Roberts and Rhea Combs; poet and writer Elizabeth Alexander; artist Dario Calmese; and renowned scholar Deborah Willis contextualize and illuminate Sherald's creation of a new form of imaginative portraiture. Often depicting her subjects' skin in gray monochrome, surrounded by few markers of place, time, or context beyond the clothes they wear, Sherald challenges the assumption that Black life is inextricably bound with struggle, creating images that engage in more expansive thinking about race and representation and the wide-open possibilities and complexities of every individual. Whether a passerby or the former first lady Michelle Obama, Sherald's subjects are at ease with themselves, the world, and one another."-- |
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| Item Description: | Published on the occasion of an exhibition of the same name held at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, November 16, 2024 - March 9, 2025 ; the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, April 9 - August 10, 2025 ; the National Portrait Gallery, Washington, D.C., September 19, 2025 - February 22, 2026. |
| Physical Description: | 157 pages : color illustrations, color portraits ; 32 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 9780300279382 0300279388 |