Sometimes a book is more than a book--it is a way for readers to meet an extraordinary person and discover an exceptional life. Winfred Rembert grew up in the 1950s in rural Georgia as the child of sharecroppers. Now, in his own voice and through his powerful paintings, he shares with young people his story and his passionate commitment to self-improvement. Reminiscent of the work of Jacob Lawrence and Horace Pippin, the paintings' rich, deep colors and poignant details powerfully narrate a story of personal courage and ...
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Sometimes a book is more than a book--it is a way for readers to meet an extraordinary person and discover an exceptional life. Winfred Rembert grew up in the 1950s in rural Georgia as the child of sharecroppers. Now, in his own voice and through his powerful paintings, he shares with young people his story and his passionate commitment to self-improvement. Reminiscent of the work of Jacob Lawrence and Horace Pippin, the paintings' rich, deep colors and poignant details powerfully narrate a story of personal courage and exceptional talent. At the same time, Rembert shows how the civil rights movement was not just a matter of famous speeches and marches, but was a product of the bonds of the black community and the unbreakable spirit of individuals who would not allow any threat, chain, or jail to hold them back. Color photos and illustrations add to this inspiring memoir of a self-taught African American artist in the segregated South.
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Good. The book may have some cosmetic wear (i.e. creased spine/cover, scratches, curled corners, folded pages, sunburn, stains, minor water damage, bent, slightly torn, damaged binding)-The dust jacket, if present, may be marked, and have considerable heavy wear, or might be missing. -The book might be ex-library copy, and may have the markings and stickers associated from the library-The book may have some highlights/notes/underlined pages-Safe and Secure Mailer-No Hassle Return-Used books may not include supplementary material.
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Rembert, Winfred. Fine in fine dust jacket. Ex-library. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 48 p. Contains: Illustrations. Audience: Children/juvenile. Cricket Books, 2003. Book Condition: Fine, Dust Jacket Fine; Marked. 1st Edition. Ex-Library. Book has a sticker on the spine and library marks on the inside blank page, otherwise the book is in like new condition. Dust Jacket in fine condition covered in protective mylar. AB76 This book pairs Mr. Rembert's remarkable paintings of his life with a poem by Nikki Giovanni. Winfred Rembert, an African-American artist originally from Georgia, incises scenes from his early life story on panels of leather, creating an unusually effective art form. The 3-D quality of his works, with forms molded through leather working techniques and colorfully dyed in precise areas, is difficult to capture in photographs, and some of the illustrations in this book only hint of the depth of his images. Mr. Rembert narrates the scenes in an approachable style. He has lived a life of epic proportions; he describes being given away as an infant by his mother to a relative, picking cotton in the rural south in near slave conditions, the good times at "colored corner, " his civil rights struggle, surviving a near lynching, and his imprisonment, partly spent on a chain-gang. In prison he was introduced to the leather working techniques that he now employs in his art.
