Jacob Lawrence: The American Struggle - Hardcover

Jacob Lawrence: The American Struggle - Hardcover

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Jacob Lawrence: The American Struggle - Hardcover

Jacob Lawrence: The American Struggle - Hardcover

$48.60

by Elizabeth Hutton Turner (Editor), Austen Barron Bailly (Editor)

This publication sets the precedent for the next generation of Lawrence scholars and studies in modern and contemporary discourse. The American Struggle explores Jacob Lawrence's radical way of transforming history into art by looking at his thirty panel series of paintings, Struggle . . . from the History of the American People (1954-56). Essays by Steven Locke, Elizabeth Hutton Turner, Austen Barron Bailly, and Lydia Gordon mark the historic reunion of this series--seen together in this exhibition for the first time since 1958. In entries on the panels, a multitude of voices responds to the episodes representing struggle from American history that Lawrence chose to activate in his series. The American Struggle reexamines Lawrence's lost narrative and its power for twenty-first century audiences by including contemporary art and artists. Derrick Adams, Bethany Collins, and Hank Willis Thomas invite us to reconsider history through themes of struggle in ways that resonate with Lawrence's artistic invention. Statements by these artists amplify how they and Lawrence view history not as distant period of the past but as an active imaginative space that is continuously questioned in the present tense and for future audiences.

Author Biography

The publication accompanies the nationally touring exhibition Jacob Lawrence: The American Struggle on view at the Peabody Essex Museum from January 18 to April 26, 2020, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, from June 2 to September 7, 2020, the Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, Alabama, from October 17, 2020, to January 10, 2021, the Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, from February 25 to May 31, 2021, and the Phillips Collection, Washington, DC, from June 26 to September 19, 2021.

Number of Pages: 192
Dimensions: 0.8 x 12.6 x 9.2 IN
Illustrated: Yes
Publication Date: November 15, 2019

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