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Title Beauford Delaney and James Baldwin through the unusual door / edited by Stephen C. Wicks
Edition First Edition
Published [Knoxville] : Knoxville Museum of Art, [2020]

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Contents Foreword / David Butler -- Beauford Delaney and James Baldwin : a selected timeline -- Glenn Ligon to Beauford Delaney : two letters -- Introduction / Stephen C. Wicks -- Beauford Delaney's "metamorphosis into freedom" / Stephen C. Wicks -- "I will not be moved" : Beauford Delaney's (self-) portraits of Rosa Parks / Mary Campbell -- Beauford Delaney's repetition creates / Levi Prombaum
Summary Beauford Delaney and James Baldwin: Through the Unusual Door examines the thirty-eight-year relationship between painter Beauford Delaney (born in Knoxville, 1901; died in Paris, 1979) and writer James Baldwin (born in New York, 1924; died in Saint-Paul-de-Vence, France, 1987) and the ways their ongoing intellectual exchange shaped each other's creative output and worldview. This full-color publication documents the groundbreaking exhibition organized by the Knoxville Museum of Art (KMA) and is drawn from the KMA's extensive Delaney holdings, from public and private collections around the country, and from unpublished photographs and papers held by the Knoxville-based estate of Beauford Delaney. This book seeks to identify and disentangle the skein of influences that grew over and around a complex, lifelong relationship with a selection of Delaney's works that reflects the powerful presence of Baldwin in Delaney's life. While no other figure in Beauford Delaney's extensive social orbit approaches James Baldwin in the extent and duration of influence, none of the major exhibitions of Delaney's work has explored in any depth the creative exchange between the two. The volume also includes essays by Mary Campbell, whose research currently focuses on James Baldwin and Beauford Delaney within the context of the civil rights movement; Glenn Ligon, an internationally acclaimed New York-based artist with intimate knowledge of Baldwin's writings, Delaney's art, and American history and society; Levi Prombaum, a curatorial assistant at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum who did his doctoral research at University College London on Delaney's portraits of James Baldwin; and Stephen Wicks, the Knoxville Museum of Art's Barbara W. and Bernard E. Bernstein Curator, who has guided the KMA's curatorial department for over 25 years and was instrumental in building the world's largest and most comprehensive public collection of Beauford Delaney's art at the KMA
Subject Baldwin, James, 1924-1987 -- Exhibitions
Delaney, Beauford, 1901-1979 -- Exhibitions
SUBJECT Baldwin, James, 1924-1987 -- Exhibitions
Delaney, Beauford, 1901-1979 -- Exhibitions
Delaney, Beauford, 1901-1979 fast
Baldwin, James, 1924-1987 fast
Subject Modernism (Art) -- Exhibitions
Abstract expressionism -- United States -- Exhibitions
African Americans in art -- Exhibitions
African American art -- 20th century -- Exhibitions
African American authors -- 20th century -- Biography
African American authors -- 20th century -- Exhibitions
African American artists -- 20th century -- Biography
African American artists -- 20th century -- Exhibitions
Abstract expressionism
African American art
African American artists
African American authors
African Americans in art
Intellectual life
Modernism (Art)
SUBJECT United States -- Intellectual life -- 20th century -- Exhibitions
Subject United States
Genre/Form exhibition catalogs.
Biographies
Exhibition catalogs
Exhibition catalogs.
Biographies.
Catalogues d'exposition.
Biographies.
Form Electronic book
Author Wicks, Stephen C., editor, author.
Knoxville Museum of Art, host institution, issuing body.
ISBN 9780998825250
0998825255