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Genre/Form: | Exhibition catalogues exhibition catalogs collective biographies Biographies Exhibition catalogs Catalogues d'exposition Exhibitions |
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Named Person: | Dox Thrash; Dox Thrash; Dox Thrash; Dox Thrash |
Material Type: | Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
John W Ittmann; Philadelphia Museum of Art.; Terra Museum of American Art. |
ISBN: | 0295981598 9780295981598 0876331525 9780876331521 0876331517 9780876331514 |
OCLC Number: | 47785679 |
Notes: | Exhibition itinerary: Philadelphia Museum of Art, October 27, 2001-February 24, 2002 ; Terra Museum of American Art, Chicago, September 10-November 3, 2002. |
Description: | xi, 176 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm. |
Contents: | Foreword / Anne d'Harnoncourt -- Dox Thrash: "I Always Wanted To Be an Artist" / John Ittmann -- The Fine Print Workshop of the Philadelphia Federal Art Project / Cindy Medley-Buckner -- Dox Thrash and the Pyramid Club / David R. Brigham -- "Racial Idiom" in the Work of Dox Thrash / Kymberly N. Pinder -- Guide to the Catalogue Raisonne of Prints -- Catalogue Raisonne of Prints -- Chronology / Jennifer Noonan -- Lifetime Exhibition Record -- Glossary of Printmaking Terms -- Alphabetical List of Print Titles. |
Series Title: | Jacob Lawrence series on American artists. |
Responsibility: | John Ittmann ; with essays by David R. Brigham, Cindy Medley-Buckner and Kymberly N. Pinder. |
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Abstract:
The African American artist Dox Thrash has been frequently included in dictionaries, text books, and group exhibitions. This book catalogs prints, drawings, and watercolors through which Thrash expressed a consciousness about the perception of blacks within the racist structures of both American society and Western art history.
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[Thrash's] depictions of everyday life, memories of the South, graceful nudes, and humanistic portraits convey an African American social realism that have hardly been appreciated until now. . . . WPA artists made important contributions to American art history, and the African American artists among them are especially underrepresented in most collections, making this high-quality book a worthwhile purchase. * Library Journal * Read more...

