Kerry James Marshall: History Of Painting
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Few artists have reshaped the landscape of contemporary painting as boldly and as deliberately as Kerry James Marshall, and History of Painting stands as a definitive testament to that ambition. This richly illustrated volume chronicles Marshall's decades-long project to insert Black figures into the grand tradition of Western art history — a canon from which they have been systematically and conspicuously absent. With works that range from intimate domestic scenes to monumental public compositions, Marshall constructs a visual counter-narrative that is at once historically grounded and urgently contemporary, demanding that the viewer reckon with what has been left out of art's official record. Published by David Zwirner Books, this volume presents Marshall's practice through the lens of his own uncompromising artistic philosophy: that representation is never neutral, and that visibility itself is a political act. His paintings, rendered in a masterful command of colour, scale, and figuration, argue that beauty and Blackness are not in tension but in profound, generative dialogue. Scholarly yet accessible, History of Painting is essential reading for anyone serious about understanding how one artist has quietly — and then thunderously — rewritten the rules of who gets to appear on the canvas, and why that matters.
Author: Kerry James Marshall
Format: Hardback
Published: 2019, David Zwirner Books
Genre: History of arts
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: N/A
Pages: Good
Few artists have reshaped the landscape of contemporary painting as boldly and as deliberately as Kerry James Marshall, and History of Painting stands as a definitive testament to that ambition. This richly illustrated volume chronicles Marshall's decades-long project to insert Black figures into the grand tradition of Western art history — a canon from which they have been systematically and conspicuously absent. With works that range from intimate domestic scenes to monumental public compositions, Marshall constructs a visual counter-narrative that is at once historically grounded and urgently contemporary, demanding that the viewer reckon with what has been left out of art's official record. Published by David Zwirner Books, this volume presents Marshall's practice through the lens of his own uncompromising artistic philosophy: that representation is never neutral, and that visibility itself is a political act. His paintings, rendered in a masterful command of colour, scale, and figuration, argue that beauty and Blackness are not in tension but in profound, generative dialogue. Scholarly yet accessible, History of Painting is essential reading for anyone serious about understanding how one artist has quietly — and then thunderously — rewritten the rules of who gets to appear on the canvas, and why that matters.