Painter, sculptor and printmaker, Elizabeth Catlett (b. 1915) played an influential role in America's African-American and Mexico's revolutionary art communities in the mid-twentieth century. Catlett studied at the University of Iowa (where she briefly worked with Grant Wood), the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and the Art Students League in New York, before moving to Mexico in 1947. Focusing on Catlett's evocative "Negro Woman" series from 1946-47, this book reveals Catlett's commitment to social and political ...
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Painter, sculptor and printmaker, Elizabeth Catlett (b. 1915) played an influential role in America's African-American and Mexico's revolutionary art communities in the mid-twentieth century. Catlett studied at the University of Iowa (where she briefly worked with Grant Wood), the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and the Art Students League in New York, before moving to Mexico in 1947. Focusing on Catlett's evocative "Negro Woman" series from 1946-47, this book reveals Catlett's commitment to social and political issues. All of the fifteen linoleum prints are beautifully reproduced and together they address the harsh reality of black women's labour; honour renowned historical heroines such as Sojourner Truth, Harriet Tubma and Phillis Wheatley; and depict the fears, struggles and achievements of ordinary African-American women. Other notable works by Catlett are also included, and an absorbing essay by distinguished scholar Melanie Anne Herzog analyses the artist's powerful work from a biographical perspective.
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Good; Softcover; Light wear to the covers; Text pages are bright & unmarked; Very faint watermark (about 2" x 1") to the middle right edge of the first 10 pages, otherwise the endpapers and all text pages are clean and unmarked; Good binding; This book will be shipped in a sturdy cardboard box with foam padding; Medium Format (8.5"-9.75" tall); 0.4 lbs; Black covers with art illustration of old woman, and title in white lettering; 2005, Art Inst of Chicago; 40 pages; "Elizabeth Catlett: In the Image of the People, " by Melanie Anne Herzog.
