Ominous and angular, the acclaimed steel sculptures of Melvin Edwards convey racial violence with edgy ingenuity This volume brings together a significant selection of works from the titular series by the New York-based sculptor Melvin Edwards (born 1937), created between 1963 and 2016, comprising more than 50 years of what is considered the artist's central body of work. Edwards started to produce the Fragments series when he lived in Los Angeles, at a crucial time of the civil rights movement in the United States. ...
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Ominous and angular, the acclaimed steel sculptures of Melvin Edwards convey racial violence with edgy ingenuity This volume brings together a significant selection of works from the titular series by the New York-based sculptor Melvin Edwards (born 1937), created between 1963 and 2016, comprising more than 50 years of what is considered the artist's central body of work. Edwards started to produce the Fragments series when he lived in Los Angeles, at a crucial time of the civil rights movement in the United States. The works directly reference the practice of lynching after the abolition of slavery. Denouncing violence against African Americans, Edwards created these steel sculptures as forms between bodies and machines that can also be interpreted as weapons, given the sense of violence and danger suggested by their blunt, angular and protruding shapes. The selection of works in this book reflects the multiplicity of thematic interests and the formal variations across the series.
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VG+ Hardcover in white with color reproductions on front and reverse. 250 pp: illustrations (chiefly color), facsimiles, portraits, photographs. Melvin Edwards (b.1937) is a pioneer in the history of contemporary African-American art and sculpture. Born in Houston, Texas, he began his artistic career at the University of Southern California. The exhibition is the artistÅ“s first solo exhibition in Brazil. It brings together 38 works from the iconic sculpture series by one of the most important American artists of his generation. The exhibited works span more than five decades of his production-from 1963 to 2016-and its starting point coincides with a crucial period of the civil rights movement in the United States. Page [7]. Edwards uses welds scraps of found metal to create new forms, and the sculpturesÅ“ implicit threat of violence derives in part from the chains, nails, and other tools of which they are constructed. He made this work during and immediately following a residency in Zimbabwe. Foreword / Itaú Cultural--Melvin Edwards at MASP / Heitor Martins, Adriano Pedrosa--Lynch Fragments: pieces of life, shards of history / Rodrigo Moura--Art for times of insurrection / Renata Bittencourt--"Nigeria is ok for me! Memory and history in "Ibadan Oke" (1992) and "Ile Ogun" (2003) / Rebecca Wolff--Melvin Edwards' Lynch Fragments: Negritude and the battle for civil rights in America / Hamid Irbouh--Reproductions of the works--List of the works in the exhibition--Curriculum--Selected bibliography. Catalog of an exhibition held at Museu de Arte de São Paulo Assis Chateaubriand, August 24-November 22, 2018. / Includes bibliographical references (pages 246-250). / "Melvin Edwards: Lynch Fragments": August 24-November 22, 2018, Museu de Arte de São Paulo Assis Chateaubriand, São Paulo, Brazil.
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