Elizabeth Catlett: An American Artist in Mexico (Jacob

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Elizabeth Catlett: An American Artist in Mexico (Jacob Lawrence Series on American Artists xx)

Elizabeth Catlett, born in Washington, DC, in 1915, is widely acknowledged as a major presence in African American art, and her work is celebrated as a visually eloquent expression of African American identity and pride in cultural heritage. But this is not the whole story. She has lived in Mexico for 50 years, as a citizen of that country since 1962, and she and her husband, artist Francisco Mora, have raised their children there. For 20 years she was a member of the Taller de GrÃ¡fica Popular (Popular Graphic Arts Workshop) and she was the first woman professor of sculpture at the Universidad Nacional AutÃ³noma de MÃ©xico. Her extraordinary career has stretched from her years as a student at Howard University during the 1930s through various political and social movementsâ€•including the Chicago Renaissance of the 1940s, the Black Power and Black Arts movements, the Mexican Public Art Movement, and feminismâ€•which have informed her art.

This richly illustrated and informative monograph is the first to document the full range of Catlettâ€™s life and work. In addition to thoroughly researching primary source materials and to critiquing individual art works with sensitivity and erudition, the author has conducted numerous interviews with Catlett and has analyzed with clarity the political context of her work and her diverse sympathies and allegiances. Herzog examines key artistic influences and shows how Catlett transformed an extraordinary stylistic vocabulary into a socially charged statement.

In tracing Catlettâ€™s long and continuing career as a graphic artist and sculptor in Mexico, Herzog explores an important period in Catlettâ€™s life between the 1950s and the 1970s about which almost nothing is known in the United States. She examines the â€œMexicannessâ€ in Catlettâ€™s work in its fluent relationship to the underlying and constant sense of African American identity she brought with her to Mexico. Herzogâ€™s solidly grounded interpretation offers a new way to understand Catlettâ€™s work and reveals this artist as a fascinating and pivotal intercultural figure whose powerful art manifests her firm belief that the visual arts can play a role in the construction of a meaningful identity, both transnational and ethnically grounded.
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Brand University of Washington Press
Manufacturer University of Washington Press
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Country	USA
Brand	University of Washington Press
Manufacturer	University of Washington Press
Binding	Paperback
ItemPartNumber	9780295985459
UnitCount	1
EANs	9780295985459
ReleaseDate	0000-00-00

Elizabeth Catlett: An American Artist in Mexico (Jacob Lawrence Series on American Artists xx)

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