Sam Gilliam /
"An African American artist in the nation's capital at the height of the Civil Rights movement, Sam Gilliam blazed a trail with his singular artistic vision. Gilliam emerged from the Washington, DC art scene in the mid 1960s with works that disrupted established artistic norms and styles....
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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London ; New York :
Phaidon,
[2024]
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| Summary: | "An African American artist in the nation's capital at the height of the Civil Rights movement, Sam Gilliam blazed a trail with his singular artistic vision. Gilliam emerged from the Washington, DC art scene in the mid 1960s with works that disrupted established artistic norms and styles. Relentlessly experimental and inspired by the improvisatory ethos of jazz, Gilliam's lyrical abstractions took on an increasing variety of forms, moods, and materials. This book, made in close collaboration with the Sam Gilliam Foundation, is the first to comprehensively survey the breadth of his extraordinary career, and features never-before-seen archival materials and insightful newly commissioned texts that shine light on the artist, his life, and his work, together with examples of Gilliam's work spanning five decades."-- Provided by publisher. |
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| Physical Description: | 303 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), portraits ; 33 x 24 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 9781838663933 1838663932 |