Romare Bearden Southern Recollections
Edited by Carla M. Hanzal. Contributions by Carla M. Hanzal, Glenda Elizabeth Gilmore, Jae Emerling, Lesley King-Hammond, and Mary Lee Corlett
Published by GILES in association with the Mint Museum of Art
Publish Date — September 2011 (UK and USA)
Dimensions — 144 pages, 280 x 240 mm (9 ½ x 11 in.), portrait
Illustrations — 140 colour
Hardback price — UK£29.95/US$44.95
ISBN — 978-1-904832-98-0
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Sales Points
Mary Lee Corlett’s essay on the jazzlike repetitions and variations in Bearden’s work is particularly strong.” David Yezzi, Wall Street Journal
“Bright and accessible” Karol V. Menzie, AmericanStyle
“Especially well done with excellent essays”. Lennie Bennett, Tampa Bay Times
“Carla M. Hanzal offers a focused and intriguing study of the artist’s important contributions to the practice of collage, an art form that continues to be expanded upon by emerging artists today….Romare Bearden: Southern Recollections offers a great resource for artists, curators and scholars by providing fresh interpretations of the artist’s life and work, and excellent, full-color reproductions.” Xandra Eden, Curator of Exhibitions, Weatherspoon Art Museum, The University of North Carolina at Greensboro
“The first of its kind to examine in depth how the South served as a source of inspiration throughout Bearden’s career.” artrepublic.com
About the Book
Romare Bearden: Southern Recollections presents 90 works from the full span of the artist’s career, drawing on the Mint Museum’s and other public and private collections of Bearden’s work. It is a significant development in the wider understanding of the numerous sources and inspiration behind much of Bearden’s art, focusing on a largely unstudied area of his work, his recollections and memories of his southern childhood.
Bearden recorded the notions of ritual, and the celebration of a lost way of life, as families like his own dispersed across the urban centres of the north east. Colour plates from the accompanying exhibition are presented throughout four essays by leading Bearden scholars. These include Dr Leslie King-Hammond, who focuses on the feminist component in his art, as well as the role of complex iconographic features such as trains and birds, as possible metaphors for God in the machine and the means of deliverance to a new life.
Accompanies the exhibition at the Mint Museum Uptown at Levine Center for the Arts from 2 September 2011 - 8 January 2012, travelling to the Tampa Museum of Art, 28 January - 6 May 2012, and Newark Museum 23 May - 19 August 2012
