Full Description
Kerry James Marshall: The Histories is the most extensive publication on the artist to date, celebrating half a century of his work. It reveals the complex ways in which he has transformed histories of Western painting, centering Black bodies in ambitious compositions set in barber shops, public housing projects, parks, and beauty salons. It charts his use of portraiture to memorialise individuals such as Nat Turner, Harriet Tubman, and Olaudah Equiano. A new series, illustrated here for the first time, looks at under-acknowledged aspects of the history of Africa. With lavish illustrations of all the works in the accompanying exhibition, it also includes chapters on Marshall's Rythm Mastr project and his various public commissions including his stained glass windows for the cathedral in Washington D.C.. A survey by Mark Godfrey is accompanied by shorter essays by Aria Dean, Darby English, Madeleine Grynsztejn, Cathérine Hug, Nikita Sena Quarshie, Rebecca Zorach, and an interview between Kerry James Marshall and Benjamin H.D. Buchloh.
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
