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The Dirty South: Contemporary Art, Material Culture, and the Sonic Impulse
This exhibition catalog to the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts' The Dirty South: Contemporary Art, Material Culture, and the Sonic Impulse chronicles the pervasive visual and sonic parallels in the work of Black artists from the southern United States. It looks to contemporary southern hip-hop as a portal into the roots and aesthetic legacies that have shaped contemporary art from the 1920s to the present. It features multiple generations of both academically trained and "outsider" artists working in a variety of genres and disciplines, including Thornton Dial, Allison Janae Hamilton, Arthur Jafa, Jason Moran, Sister Gertrude Morgan, Sun Ra, Kara Walker, and William Edmondson. Creating a capacious understanding of southern expression in visual art, material culture, and music, this richly illustrated volume documents the exhibition's artworks and includes critical essays, poems, artist biographies, and an extended bibliography. The Dirty South will be on display at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts from May 22, 2021 to September 6, 2021. Contributors. Regina N. Bradley, Charlie R. Braxton, Andrea Barnwell Brownlee, Kirsten Pai Buick, Jennifer Burris, Valerie Cassel Oliver, Rhea Combs, Park McArthur, Paul D. Miller aka DJ Spooky that Subliminal Kid, Fred Moten, Anthony B. Pinn, Guthrie P. Ramsey Jr., Roger Reeves Published by the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
Distributed by Duke University Press
Distributed by Duke University Press
Book Details
- Publisher: Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
- Publish Date: Sep 14th, 2021
- Pages: 288
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 10.80in - 11.37in - 1.49in - 4.47lb
- EAN: 9781934351192
- Categories: • Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions - General• American - African American & Black• History - 20th & 21st Century
About the Author
Valerie Cassel Oliver is Sydney and Frances Lewis Family Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts.
Praise for this book
"[T]his catalog for one of the outstanding exhibitions of the season . . . proposes that the culture of the African American South, as defined by music and vernacular art, is the bedrock of American culture itself, with a strong influence on new art today. The book vividly illustrates and deepens the show's powerful argument."
--Holland Cotter "New York Times, Best Art Books of 2021" (12/9/2021 12:00:00 AM)
--Holland Cotter "New York Times, Best Art Books of 2021" (12/9/2021 12:00:00 AM)