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Kerry James Marshall: Mastry Hardcover – May 3 2016

by Ian Alteveer (Author), Helen Molesworth (Author), Dieter Roelstraete (Author),

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The definitive monograph on contemporary African American painter Kerry James Marshall, accompanying a major traveling retrospective. This long-awaited volume celebrates the work of Kerry James Marshall, one of America’s greatest living painters. Born before the passage of the Civil Rights Act, in Birmingham, Alabama, and witness to the Watts riots in 1965, Marshall has long been an inspired and imaginative chronicler of the African American experience. Best known for large-scale interiors, landscapes, and portraits featuring powerful black figures, Marshall explores narratives of African American history from slave ships to the present and draws upon his deep knowledge of art history from the Renaissance to twentieth-century abstraction, as well as other sources such as the comic book and the muralist tradition. With luscious color and brushstrokes and highly detailed patterning, his direct and intimate scenes of black middle-class life conjure a wide range of emotions, resulting in powerful paintings that confront the position of African Americans throughout American history. Richly illustrated, this monumental book features essays by noted curators as well as the artist, and more than 100 paintings from throughout the artist’s career arranged thematically by subject: history painting; beauty, as expressed through the nude, portraiture, and self-portraiture; landscape; religion; and the politics of black nationalism.

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Skira Rizzoli
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May 3 2016
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23.62 x 3.15 x 30.48 cm
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0847848337
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"Kerry James Marshall is the first comprehensive study of the life and oeuvre of one of America's greatest modern painters. Marshall has not received the attention he deserves and Kerry James Marshall aims to change that. This book is packed with stunning replicas of Marshall's paintings. It is simply a pleasure to hold it. It is a must have for all students and experts of painting."
-THE WASHINGTON BOOK REVIEW

"This beautifully conceived and produced catalog for a 2016-17 survey organized jointly by the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, The Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles is a stunning overview." —ARTBLOG

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Ian Alteveer is associate curator in the department of modern and contemporary art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Helen Molesworth is the chief curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), Los Angeles. Dieter Roelstraete is a curator of Documenta 14 and the former Manilow Senior Curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago (MCA). Abigail Winograd is a research associate at the MCA.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Skira Rizzoli (May 3 2016)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 288 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0847848337
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0847848331
Item weight ‏ : ‎ 1.91 kg
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 23.62 x 3.15 x 30.48 cm

Best Sellers Rank: #67,571 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #10 in Black & African American Art
- #10 in U.S. Black & African American Art History (Books)
- #65 in Art Monographs

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This book's got gutzpah

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The Art is amazing, pity about the writing

Reviewed in the United States on January 26, 2019

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This is a moderately hefty hardback with decent sized plates and it runs to just over 270 pages. The binding is of good quality and this volume would be a decent introduction for a curious art lover.

I struggle a bit with the writing in this kind of art book and I wonder who it is aimed at and whether the writers have actually spent time with the artist in his studio and absorbed what he is trying to do.

This volume does contain some reprints of pieces written by the artist himself and these give some idea of his thinking. So that’s something. Marshall has also written one of the essays which makes clear what his project is. Maybe he, like me, despairs of the state of art writing today and has taken it into his own hands.

As a consumer of art books, I wish that the other essays were better written. They could be so much more informative if they left the art theory and were grounded in the artist’s world and his or her studio practice. When I read hyper inflated language I come to the conclusion that the writer is hiding his or her ignorance behind a barrage of art theory jargon.

I’ll bet that the vast majority of art lovers have never even heard of semiotics, still less studied it.

This book is fine. It’s good, not great. And that’s because of the writing.
Kerry James Marshall is a very talented artist and he needs some better writers to carry his message into the world.

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Fantastic catalogue on a contemporary master

Reviewed in the United States on July 23, 2022

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Fantastic exhibition, fantastic catalogue. One of our contemporary masters.

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Read this with your computer or tablet handy

Reviewed in the United States on May 30, 2016

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This book is an education in itself. I have worked through the essays slowly with my iPad by my side to look up the artists, events and ideas mentioned. Each is excellent and the truly transformative one by Kerry James Marshall himself, "Shall I Compare Thee..?" is personally deeply meaningful to me as a figurative artist who happens to be a woman. The reproductions and notes are terrific. Anyone interested in contemporary painting and historical issues of what people, races, cultures, nations and individuals are considered to count will find this an absorbing book.

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Kerry James Marshall!!!

Reviewed in the United States on May 22, 2021

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Awesome book, great price! Seller shipped fast and it arrived in perfect condition!

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Ace Nightcreeper Jr.

Better suited for someone in art history class or studying Marshall

Reviewed in the United States on February 5, 2018

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It could have provided more of his oeuvre, instead it focused more on the historical analysis and subject matter, which is alright too. However, if you are buying for a coffee table book, there are better Kerry James Marshall books. This is for anyone who is interested in more of a textbook on Marshall.

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