When the Stars Begin to Fall : Imagination and the American South

Language: English

Published by The Studio Museum in Harlem, USA, 2014

0942949382 / 9780942949384

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17 x 24cm 154pp very good paperback exhibition catalogue produced for a show at The Studio Museum in Harlem March 27-June 29, 2014, curated by Thomas J. Lax. When the Stars Begin to Fall: Imagination and the American South queries the category of outsider art in relation to contemporary art and black life. Situating itself within current art historical and political debates, the exhibition considers work by self-taught, spiritually inspired and incarcerated artists, alongside other projects based in performance, socially engaged practice and the archive, as well as painting, drawing, sculpture and assemblage, that make insistent reference to place. With the majority of work having been made between 1964 and 2014, the exhibition brings together a group of thirty-five intergenerational American artists who share an interest in the U.S. South as a location both real and imagined. Moving between a graphic sensibility, an interest in creation myths and the use of found materials and detritus, the artists reference various classical tropes of blackness as sites of origin fantastical and performed, important yet perhaps-illusory. The catalogue includes entries by Thomas J. Lax, along with leading scholars Horace Ballard, Katherine Jentleson, Scott Romine and Lowery Stokes Sims, who write on notions of spirituality, the ethics of self-taught art and the idea of the South in the American project.…

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Title
When the Stars Begin to Fall : Imagination and the American South
Author
Lax, J. Thomas (Curator)
Publisher
The Studio Museum in Harlem, USA
Publication year
2014
Condition
Very good in wraps
Binding
Paperback
Language
English
ISBN 10
0942949382
ISBN 13
9780942949384

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