Roberts, Sarah
Amy Sherald: American Sublime
- ISBN 13:
- 9780300279382
- author:
- Roberts, Sarah
- format:
- Hardback
- publisher:
- Yale University Press
- language:
- English
- Publication Year:
- 2025
- Pages:
- 144
- Dimensions:
- 24.8 x 31.2 x 2 centimetres (1.2
- Genre:
- Arts & Photography, Art, Individual Artist,
- Condition:
- New
- Availability:
- Item usually sent within 10 working days
Description
Amy Sherald: American Sublime brings together nearly all of her artwork to date, situating the work of this contemporary painter within the context of American realist and figurative painting. Her method involves selecting individuals she meets on the street and using facial expression, body language, and clothing choices to create paintings that transcend portraiture. The book features essays by curators Sarah Roberts and Rhea Combs, poet and writer Elizabeth Alexander, artist Dario Calmese, and renowned scholar Deborah Willis, which contextualize and illuminate Sherald's creation of a new form of imaginative portraiture. These images challenge the assumption that Black life is inextricably bound with struggle, creating expansive thinking about race and representation. Through her distinctive figure paintings and portraits, Amy Sherald creates a wide-open possibilities and complexities of every individual, often depicting her subjects' skin in gray monochrome, surrounded by few markers of place, time, or context beyond the clothes they wear.
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