Full Description
African American and American Indian artist Richard Mayhew was a pivotal member of the movement, headed by Romare Bearden, of the most important black artists of the Abstract Expressionist era. Bearden's group, Spiral, was formed as a visual response to the March on Washington. Mayhew associated with Jackson Pollock, Robert Motherwell, and Bearden, and formed alliances with such African American artists as Faith Ringgold, Norman Lewis, Ed Clark, and Emma Amos; his work is exhibited in major collections and museums throughout the world. This book explores his art and discusses the critical exclusion from the history of art of Native Americans and African Americans who are not figurative or "narrative" and creates a framework for reconsideration of such art.
Contents
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Preface
Introduction
Part I: The Life and
One: Origins, Influence and Diaspora
Two: "Shadows in the Trees": Art Movements and Critical Reception
Three: "He Just Came Off the Reservation": Native and African American Art and the Civil Rights Movement
Four: "Forty, Forty, Forty": Creative Consciousness, Landscape and the Sense of "Place"
Between pages 88 and 89 are 12 plates containing 33 color images
Five: Collectors and Students
Part II: Interviews
Six: Conversations, 2003-2007
Seven: Mayhew on Selected Topics, 2012
Afterword
Chapter Notes
Bibliography
Index
