Four Generations: The Joyner Giuffrida Collection of Abstract Art
Language: English
Published by Gregory R. Miller & Co., 2016
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- Title
- Four Generations: The Joyner Giuffrida Collection of Abstract Art
- Publisher
- Gregory R. Miller & Co.
- Publication year
- 2016
- Condition
- acceptable
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1941366104
- ISBN 13
- 9781941366103
Extensively illustrated with hundreds of works in a variety of media, and featuring scholarly texts by leading artists, writers and curators, Four Generations gives an essential overview of some of the most notable artists and movements of the last century, up to and including works being made today.
Four major new scholarly essays provide touchstones for the unifying themes of the collection, and provide historical background on the struggles, innovations, communities and questions that have driven the development of African American and African arts―including a new text by Joost Bosland on the reception of contemporary African art after 1989; Susan and Elihu Rose Chief Curator of the Jewish Museum’s Norman L. Kleeblatt on the pioneering achievements of Norman Lewis; Tate Modern Senior Curator Mark Godfrey on black artists in the 1960s and 1970s; as well as a crucial look at contemporary art and practice by the book's editor Courtney J. Martin, Assistant Professor of the History of Art and Architecture at Brown University.
Short essays on single artists and significant works punctuate each historical chapter, including texts and interviews by noteworthy writers such as Thelma Golden, Philippe Vergne, Thomas J. Lax, Lawrence Rinder, Christopher Bedford and others, on artists like Kara Walker, Mark Bradford, Lorna Simpson, Norman Lewis, Glenn Ligon, Theaster Gates, Clifford Owens, Jennie C. Jones, Julie Mehretu, and more.
The catalogue is further illustrated with major works by artists from throughout the last century, such as Beauford Delaney, Jacob Lawrence, Alma Thomas, David Hammons, Sam Gilliam, Lauren Halsey, Oscar Murillo, Jayson Musson, Robin Rhode, Zander Blom, Lynette Yiadom-Boakye and many others.
Filled with countless insights and treasures, Four Generations: The Joyner Giuffrida Collection of Abstract Art is a journey through one of the most exceptional collections of art in America, and through the momentous legacy of African and African Diasporan art from the last hundred years.
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When art collectors publish a book on their treasures, they often include a glamour shot of themselves surrounded by myriad works. But in "Four Generations: The Joyner/Giuffrida Collection of Abstract Art," edited by Courtney J. Martin and published last month by Gregory R. Miller, there is no picture of Ms. Joyner anywhere. Instead, there are academic essays by curators and writers, with only a short "question and answer" segment with Ms. Joyner and her husband, Alfred J. Giuffrida.--Ted Loos "The New York Times "
By bringing together the disparate efforts of an impressive range of artists, curators, and scholars, this compendium goes a long way toward...upsetting the the reductive narratives and false dichotomies that so often accompany work by black artists.--Michael Miller "Bookforum "
It is a chance to contemplate a wider, more complex and exciting narrative: how African-American artists show a different version of America, and how some, like Mr Gilliam, have changed the language of art itself.--The Economist
The catalog Four Generations: The Joyner/Giuffrida Collection of Abstract Art (2016), edited by Courtney J. Martin, shows that a history of blacks in American art can be told through means other than the representational or narrative.--New York Review of Books
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