Full Description
In his lyrical figurative paintings and murals, the internationally acclaimed artist Kerry James Marshall HON RA (b. 1955) places Black faces and bodies front and centre in compositions founded on the principles of Western picture-making. He uses memories, art-historical styles and genres and contemporary culture and science fiction to comment on the past, celebrate everyday life and imagine a more optimistic future.
This book records the largest UK survey of the artist's work to date, and includes some 70 images, among them a new series of paintings and Marshall's commemorative sculpture Wake, which evolves every time it is exhibited.
Text in English, French and German.
Contents
Prelims: half-title, title pages, imprint and contents, PRA, sponsor, acknowledgements
Introduction by Mark Godfrey in seven sections, all plates to be incorporated within these
Interview with the artist by Benjamin Buchloh
Slave-trader paintings by Darby English
Public projects in Chicago and Washington DC by Rebecca Zorach
Essay by Madeleine Grynsztejn
Marshall and Manet by Fabrice Hergott
Marshall's prints by Cathérine Hug
Marshall's art-historical writings by Rose Thompson
Rythm Mastr by Nikita Sena Quarshie
Endnotes
Further reading
Photographic acknowledgements
Index
RA benefactors
