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Jacob Lawrence
Leah Dickerman
Elsa Smithgall
其他書名
The Migration Series
出版
Museum of Modern Art
, 2015
主題
Art / History / General
Art / History / Modern (late 19th Century to 1945)
Art / Individual Artists / General
Art / Individual Artists / Monographs
Art / American / African American & Black
Art / Subjects & Themes / General
ISBN
087070964X
9780870709647
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=lxTXoQEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋
In 1941, Jacob Lawrence, then just 23 years old, completed a series of 60 small tempera paintings with text captions about the Great Migration, the mass movement of black Americans from the rural South to the urban North that began in 1915-16. Within months of its making, the
Migration Series
was divided between The Museum of Modern Art (even-numbered panels) and the Phillips Memorial Gallery (odd-numbered panels). The work has since become a landmark in the history of African American art, a monument in the collections of both institutions and a crucial example of the way in which history painting was radically reimagined in the modern era. In 2015 and 2016, the panels will be reunited in exhibitions at The Museum of Modern Art (
One-Way Ticket: Jacob Lawrence's Migration Series and Other Works
) and at The Phillips Collection (
Jacob Lawrence's Migration Series
). This catalogue grounds Lawrence's
Migration Series
in the cultural and political debates that shaped the young artist's work and highlights its continued resonance for artists and writers today. An essay by Leah Dickerman situates the series within contemporary discussions about black history and an artist's social responsiblities in the late 1930s and early 1940s. Elsa Smithgall traces the acquisition and exhibition history of the
Migration Series.
Short commentaries on each panel explore Lawrence's career and technique, and the social history of the Migration. The catalogue also debuts ten poems commissioned from acclaimed poets that respond to the
Migration Series
. Elizabeth Alexander, honored as the poet at President Obama's first inauguration, introduces the section.