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BLACK ART SURVEYS

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Royal Academy of Arts

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Hardcover, 7.5 x 10.25 in. / 144 pgs / 125 color.

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Catalog: SPRING 2023 p. 61   

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ISBN 9781912520954 TRADE
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London, UK
Royal Academy of Arts, 03/17/23–06/18/23

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Souls Grown Deep like the Rivers

Black Artists from the American South

Text by Maxwell L. Anderson, Raina Lampkins-Fielder, Paul Goodwin.

Souls Grown Deep like the Rivers

A wide-ranging survey of Black art in the American South, from Thornton Dial and Nellie Mae Rowe to the quilters of Gee’s Bend

For generations, Black artists from the American South have forged a unique art tradition. Working in near isolation from established practices, they have created masterpieces in clay, driftwood, roots, soil, and recycled and cast-off objects that articulate America’s painful past—the inhuman practice of enslavement, the cruel segregationist policies of the Jim Crow era and institutionalized racism. Their works respond to issues ranging from economic inequality, oppression and social marginalization to sexuality, the influence of place and ancestral memory.
Among the sculptures, paintings, reliefs and drawings included here—the majority from the Souls Grown Deep Foundation in Atlanta—are works by Thornton Dial, Lonnie Holley, Ronald Lockett, Hawkins Bolden, Bessie Harvey, Charles Williams, Mary T. Smith, Purvis Young, Mose Tolliver, Nellie Mae Rowe, Mary Lee Bendolph, Marlene Bennett Jones, Martha Jane Pettway, Loretta Pettway and Henry and Georgia Speller. Also featured are the celebrated quiltmakers of Gee’s Bend, Alabama, and work from the neighboring communities of Rehoboth and Alberta.


PRAISE AND REVIEWS

Guardian

Ashish Ghadiali

Speaks, above all, to the cultural life that has prevailed in communities shaped by histories of African exploitation and enslavement on the other side of the Atlantic Ocean, and that contrast, though uneasy, feels generative, too, and perhaps the first intimation of a longer process of reparation that is to come.

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