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Melvin Edwards : Lynch fragments /

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 artistœs first solo exhibition in Brazil. It brings together 38 works from the...

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Corporate Authors: Museu de Arte de São Paulo Assis Chateaubriand
Group Author: Pedrosa, Adriano; Moura, Rodrigo; Irbouh, Hamid; Wolff, Rebecca; Bittencourt, Renata; Edwards, Melvin, 1937-
Published: MASP,
Publisher Address: São Paulo, Brazil :
Publication Dates: [2018]
Literature type: Book
Language: English
Portuguese
Subjects:
Edwards, Melvin, > 1937- > Exhibitions.
Edwards, Melvin, > 1937- > Criticism and interpretation.
Edwards, Melvin, > 1937- > Themes, motives.
Edwards, Melvin, > 1937-
Metal sculpture, American > 20th century > Exhibitions.
Metal sculpture, American > 21st century > Exhibitions.
African American sculpture > 20th century > Exhibitions.
African American sculpture > 21st century > Exhibitions.
Sculpture, Abstract > United States > 20th century > Exhibitions.
Sculpture, Abstract > United States > 21st century > Exhibitions.
Sculpture, Modern > 20th century > Exhibitions.
Sculpture, Modern > 21st century > Exhibitions.
African American sculptors > New York (State) > New York > 20th century > Exhibitions.
African American sculptors > New York (State) > New York > 21st century > Exhibitions.
Themes, motives.
Sculpture, Modern.
Sculpture, Abstract.
African American sculptors.
African American sculpture.
Metal sculpture, American.
Sculpture, American.
United States.
New York (State) > New York.
Summary: 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 artistœs 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.ʺ Page [7]. Edwards uses welds scraps of found metal to create new forms, and the sculpturesœ 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.
Item Description: Catalog of an exhibition held at Museu de Arte de São Paulo Assis Chateaubriand, August 24-November 22, 2018.
Carrier Form: 250 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), facsimiles, portraits, photographs ; 26 cm
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (pages [246]-250).
ISBN: 9788531000515
8531000513
Index Number: NB237
CLC: J334(712)-28
Call Number: J334(712)-28/M531
Contents: 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!ʺ 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.

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