Thornton Dial: Image of the Tiger
Language: English
Published by Harry N. Abrams, New York, 1993
- Hardcover
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Harry N. Abrams, in association with the Museum of American Folk Art, the New Museum of Contemporary Art, and the American Center, September 1993. Hardcover. Fine book in a Fine jacket. Only the slightest indications that it is not brand new. Unmarked. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. 160 pages. Illustrated with 122 color and 6 b&w photographs of the artist's paintings, watercolors, sculptures, assemblages. Catalog of an exhibition held at the Museum of American Folk Art, New York, and the American Center, Paris. Essays by Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones), Thomas McEvilley ; notes on the works by Paul Arnett and William Arnett ; foreword by Gerard C. Wertkin ; afterword by Henry Pillsbury. A former Alabama steel worker, Dial "made things" without acclaim for the first 60 years of his life. Since his "discovery," the self-taught African American artist has gained international attention. The tiger symbolizes both Dial and the African American male. It acts as protagonist in highly sculptural paintings constructed from found objects, scraps of carpeting, rope, and Bondo. Though the paintings are nearly abstract, close examination reveals a complex narration among the vivid colors, energetic lines, and bold design. McEvilley and Baraka do a good job of explaining the meaning of "outsider art" like Dial's, and through comparisons with figures in conventional art history they validate his work. Enhanced by the fiercely political prose of Baraka and direct quotes from the artist.…
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- Title
- Thornton Dial: Image of the Tiger
- Author
- Thornton Dial
- Publisher
- Harry N. Abrams, New York
- Publication year
- 1993
- Condition
- Fine
- Dust jacket
- Fine
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0810932172
- ISBN 13
- 9780810932173
- Illustrator
- Thornton Dial
- Item weight
- 2.6 pounds
- Dimensions
- 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall
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