Alabama Creates: 200 Years of Art and Artists

1. Auflage, 2019
ISBN: 978-0-8173-2010-2
Verlag: University of Alabama Press

Buch, Englisch, 264 Seiten, Hardback, Format (B × H): 310 mm x 257 mm, Gewicht: 2132 g

A visually rich survey of two hundred years of Alabama fine arts and artists.
 
Alabama artists have been an integral part of the story of the state, reflecting a wide-ranging and multihued sense of place through images of the land and its people. Quilts, pottery, visionary paintings, sculpture, photography, folk art, and abstract art have all contributed to diverse visions of Alabama's culture and environment. The works of art included in this volume have all emerged from a distinctive milieu that has nourished the creation of powerful visual expressions, statements that are both universal and indigenous.
 
Published to coincide with the state's bicentennial, Alabama Creates: 200 Years of Art and Artists features ninety-four of Alabama's most accomplished, noteworthy, and influential practitioners of the fine arts from 1819 to the present. The book highlights a wide range of artists who worked in the state, from its early days to its current and contemporary scene, exhibiting the full scope and breadth of Alabama art.
 
This retrospective volume features biographical sketches and representative examples of each artist's most masterful works. Alabamians like Gay Burke, William Christenberry, Roger Brown, Thornton Dial, Frank Fleming, the Gee's Bend Quilters, Lonnie, Holley, Dale Kennington, Charlie Lucas, Kerry James Marshall, David Parrish, and Bill Traylor are compared and considered with other nationally significant artists.
 
Alabama Creates is divided into four historical periods, each spanning roughly fifty years and introduced by editor Elliot Knight. Knight contextualizes each era with information about the development of Alabama art museums and institutions and the evolution of college and university art departments. The book also contains an overview of the state's artistic heritage by Gail Andrews, director emerita of the Birmingham Museum of Art. Alabama Creates conveys in a sweeping and captivating way the depth of talent, the range of creativity, and the lasting contributions these artists have made to Alabama's extraordinarily rich visual and artistic heritage.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Knight, Elliot A.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Head, Al

Andrews, Gail C.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Architektur Gebäudetypen Öffentliche Gebäude, Gewerbliche Bauten
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Regional- & Stadtgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Fotografie Einzelne Fotografen
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Sport | Tourismus | Freizeit Antiquitäten, Sammelobjekte
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunst, allgemein Einzelne Künstler: Biographien, Monografien

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Acknowledgments
- Preface by Al Head
- Introduction by Gail C. Andrews
- Part I. Prehistory to 1868
- Chapter 1. William Frye
- Chapter 2. John Lehman
- Chapter 3. Nicola Marschall
- Chapter 4. S. Phillip Romer
- Chapter 5. William Carroll Saunders
- Chapter 6. Edward Troye
- Part II. 1869–1918
- Chapter 7. Lucille Sinclair Douglass
- Chapter 8. Anne Goldthwaite
- Chapter 9. Louise Lyons Heustis
- Chapter 10. Mary Morgan Keipp
- Chapter 11. Giuseppe Moretti
- Chapter 12. Clara Weaver Parrish
- Chapter 13. Lois Slosson Sundberg
- Chapter 14. Maria Howard Weeden
- Part III. 1919–1968
- Chapter 15. Frank Hartley Anderson
- Chapter 16. Frank Woodberry Applebee
- Chapter 17. Virginia Barnes
- Chapter 18. Richard Blauvelt Coe
- Chapter 19. Frank Engle
- Chapter 20. Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald
- Chapter 21. John Kelly Fitzpatrick
- Chapter 22. Crawford Gillis
- Chapter 23. Isaac Scott Hathaway
- Chapter 24. Draffus Lamar Hightower
- Chapter 25. Carrie Hill
- Chapter 26. John Lapsley
- Chapter 27. John Roderick Dempster MacKenzie
- Chapter 28. James ""Spider"" Martin
- Chapter 29. Geneva Mercer
- Chapter 30. Carlos Alpha ""Shiney"" Moon
- Chapter 31. Charles Moore
- Chapter 32. Ann Weaver Norton
- Chapter 33. Prentice Herman Polk
- Chapter 34. Alvin Conrad Sella
- Chapter 35. Charles Shannon
- Chapter 36. William Spratling
- Chapter 37. Arthur Stewart
- Chapter 38. Maltby Sykes
- Chapter 39. Bill Traylor
- Chapter 40. John Augustus Walker
- Chapter 41. Kathryn Tucker Windham
- Chapter 42. Richard Zoellner
- Part IV. 1969–2019
- Chapter 43. Butch Anthony
- Chapter 44. Arthur L. Bacon
- Chapter 45. Pinky/MM Bass
- Chapter 46. Mozell Benson
- Chapter 47. Cal Breed
- Chapter 48. Jerry Brown
- Chapter 49. Roger Brown
- Chapter 50. Gay Burke
- Chapter 51. Richmond Burton
- Chapter 52. Gary Chapman
- Chapter 53. William Andrew Christenberry Jr.
- Chapter 54. Chip Cooper
- Chapter 55. Thornton Dial
- Chapter 56. Casey Downing Jr.
- Chapter 57. Nora Ezell
- Chapter 58. Howard Finster
- Chapter 59. Frank Fleming
- Chapter 60. Robert Lawrence ""Larry"" Godwin
- Chapter 61. Darius Hill
- Chapter 62. Lonnie Holley
- Chapter 63. Dale Kennington
- Chapter 64. Bettye Kimbrell
- Chapter 65. Janice Kluge
- Chapter 66. Simmie Knox
- Chapter 67. Cam Langley
- Chapter 68. Dale Lewis
- Chapter 69. Rick Lowe
- Chapter 70. Charlie Lucas
- Chapter 71. Kerry James Marshall
- Chapter 72. Dean Mosher
- Chapter 73. Nall
- Chapter 74. James Emmette Neel
- Chapter 75. David Parrish
- Chapter 76. Stephen Rolfe Powell
- Chapter 77. Noah Purifoy
- Chapter 78. Quiltmakers of Gee's Bend
- Chapter 79. Sonja Rieger
- Chapter 80. Guadalupe Lanning Robinson
- Chapter 81. Carolyn Sherer
- Chapter 82. Jerry Siegel
- Chapter 83. Charles Smith
- Chapter 84. Melissa Springer
- Chapter 85. Scott Stephens
- Chapter 86. Jimmy Lee Sudduth
- Chapter 87. Nina Gail Thrower
- Chapter 88. Mose Tolliver
- Chapter 89. Craig R. Wedderspoon
- Chapter 90. Yvonne Wells
- Chapter 91. Myrtice West
- Chapter 92. Jack Whitten
- Chapter 93. Hugh O. Williams
- Chapter 94. Evan Wilson
- Contributing Authors
- Where to see Visual Art in Alabama
- Resources to Learn More about Alabama Visual Arts and Artists
- Books and Exhibition Catalogues

Über Autor(innen)

Elliot A. Knight is the executive director of the Alabama State Council on the Arts. He previously served there as the visual arts program manager, the deputy director, and the director of the Georgine Clarke Alabama Artists Gallery.
 
Al Head is executive director emeritus of the Alabama State Council on the Arts.
 
Gail C. Andrews is director emerita of the Birmingham Museum of Art.