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Author Shawhan, Dorothy, author

Title Spirit of the Delta : the art of Carolyn Norris / Dorothy Sample Shawhan ; with an essay by Patti Carr Black ; featuring an interview with the artist by Tom Rankin ; photographs by Kim Rushing
Published Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, ©2011

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Description 1 online resource (143 pages) : illustrations (chiefly color)
Contents Carolyn Norris: a life in color -- Carolyn Norris : "a moment that i felt something" / Patti Carr Black -- Interview with Carolyn Norris / by Tom Rankin
Summary Raised in West Virginia, self-taught artist Carolyn Norris (b. 1948) moved as a young woman of twenty-one to Cleveland, Mississippi, a quintessential Delta railroad town on the famous blues Highway 61. To create one of her first paintings, she tore the wooden back off a dresser to use as a canvas. She painted with available house paint and completed the painting with face makeup. Thus began the realization of a passionate need to paint. Eventually, Norris came to serve as the visual griot of Cleveland. She has used a variety of media, painting on canvas, wood, paper, cardboard, glass, plates
Notes Print version record
Subject Norris, Carolyn, 1948- -- Criticism and interpretation
Norris, Carolyn, 1948-
Outsider art -- Mississippi -- Cleveland
Artists -- United States -- Biography
ART -- History -- General.
ART -- Folk & Outsider Art.
Artists
Outsider art
Mississippi -- Cleveland
United States
Genre/Form Biographies
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
Author Norris, Carolyn, 1948-
Black, Patti Carr
Rankin, Tom
Rushing, Kim
LC no. 2010036219
ISBN 9781604739930
1604739932
Other Titles Art of Carolyn Norris