Elizabeth CatlettAuthor :
Hardback
Published : Thursday 19 September 2024
Description
A book highlighting the work of pioneering Black printmaker, sculptor, and activist Elizabeth Catlett. Accomplished printmaker and sculptor, avowed feminist, and lifelong activist Elizabeth Catlett (1915-2012) built a remarkable career around intersecting passions for formal rigor and social justice. This book, accompanying a major traveling retrospective, offers a revelatory look at the artist and her nearly century-long life, highlighting overlooked works alongside iconic masterpieces. Catletts activism and artistic expression were deeply connected, and she protested the injustices of her time throughout her life. Her work in printmaking and sculpture draws on organic abstraction, the modernism of the United States and Mexico, and African art to center the experiences of Black and Mexican women. Catlett attended Howard University, studied with the painter Grant Wood, joined the Harlem artistic community, and worked with a leftist graphics workshop in Mexico, where she lived in exile after the US accused her of communism and barred her re-entry into her home country. The books essays address a range of topics, including Catletts early development as an artist-activist, the impact of political exile on her work, her pedagogical legacy, her achievement as a social realist printmaker, her work with the arts community of Chicagos South Side, and the diverse influences that shaped her practice.
You may also like ...
by
Hardback
19 Sep 2024
History of art
€60.84
by
Paperback
29 Mar 2022
Christianity
€12.40
Extended stock – Dispatch 5-7 days
by
Paperback
11 Nov 2021
Speaking in public: advice and guides
€13.98
Extended stock – Dispatch 5-7 days
by
Paperback
26 Jan 2020
Literature: history and criticism
€31.01
Extended stock – Dispatch 5-7 days
Reviews