286 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), portraits ; 29 cm
Type:
Exhibitions
Exhibition catalogs
Place:
United States
Date:
2015
Notes:
"Published in conjunction with the exhibition Procession : The Art of Norman Lewis, presented at Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, November 13, 2015-April 3, 2016; Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, Texas, June 4-August 21, 2016; Chicago Cultural Center, Illinois, September 17, 2016-January 8, 2017."--Colophon.
"This ... catalogue accompanies the first major museum retrospective of the painter Norman Lewis ... the sole African-American artist of his generation who became commiteed to issues of abstraction at the start of his career and continued to explore them over its entire trajectory."--Jacket flap.
Contents:
Preface / David C. Driskell -- The spiritual in the material / Ruth Fine -- Drawings and paintings on paper -- Jammin' at the press / David Acton -- Prints checklist / David Acton and Ruth Fine -- Lewis on Lewis : on teaching, on art--Susan Stedman commentary -- Beyond category : before Afrofuturism there was Norman Lewis / Jeffrey C. Stewart -- The presence of Norman Lewis / Jacqueline Francis -- One world or none : hints of the future in Norman Lewis's abstract expressionism / Andrianna Campbell -- Norman Lewis : presence and absence in the exhibition history, 1933-1980 / Helen M. Shannon
