Horace Pippin, American Modern - by Anne Monahan (Hardcover)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>"Horace Pippin (1888-1946) taught himself to paint in the 1930s and quickly earned international renown for depictions of World War I, black families, and American heroes Abraham Lincoln, abolitionist John Brown, and singer Marian Anderson, among other subjects. This volume sheds new light on how the disabled combat veteran claimed his place in the contemporary art world. Organized around topics of autobiography, black labor, artistic process, and gift exchange, it reveals the range of references and critiques encoded in his work and the racial, class, and cultural dynamics that informed his ... career"--Dust jacket.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><b>A nuanced reassessment that transforms our understanding of this self-taught artist</b> <p/> Arguably the most successful African American artist of his day, Horace Pippin (1888-1946) taught himself to paint in the 1930s and quickly earned international renown for depictions of World War I, black families, and American heroes Abraham Lincoln, abolitionist John Brown, and singer Marian Anderson, among other subjects. This volume sheds new light on how the disabled combat veteran claimed his place in the contemporary art world. Organized around topics of autobiography, black labor, artistic process, and gift exchange, it reveals the range of references and critiques encoded in his work and the racial, class, and cultural dynamics that informed his meteoric career. <i>Horace Pippin, American Modern</i> offers a fresh perspective on the artist and his moment that contributes to a more expansive history of art in the 20th century. Featuring over 60 of Pippin's paintings, this volume also includes two previously unknown artist's statements--"The Story of Horace Pippin as told by Himself" and "How I Paint"--and an exhibition history and list of artworks drawn from new research.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><i>"Horace Pippin</i> shines in the midst of an overdue racial reckoning in the United States, to which it makes a substantial scholarly contribution."--Clara Barnhart, <i>caa.reviews</i> <p/>"This comprehensive study of Pippin absorbs previous scholarship but is perhaps the most thorough and inclusive analysis of a luminary and true original, briefly at center stage."--Douglas F. Smith, <i>Library Journal</i> <p/>"In <i>Horace Pippin, American Modern</i>, Monahan takes up the very issue of how we are to think about the artist now. . . . Focusing rather on certain aspects of Pippin's work--on how he derived some of his images, on the meanings of his handful of pictures showing cotton fields, and on the way he often made gifts of his artworks to well-connected patrons--she attempts to remove what she calls the 'homespun' from our sense of the artist. . . . Monahan's study is of a piece with a number of recent and forthcoming books that aim to show self-taught (or outsider) artists as more in control of their endeavors than previously thought."--Sanford Schwartz, <i>New York Review of Books</i> <p/>"An exceptionally rich and compelling reading of the artist's life and work. . . . This is important work and Monahan does it well, challenging the hidden baggage of art historical discourse. Thoroughly grounded in original research and the close reading of the artist's oeuvre, <i>Horace Pippin</i> is required reading for grasping the complex and complicated social practice of the history of art."--<i>Choice</i> <p/>"<i>Horace Pippin, American Modern</i> offers a fresh perspective on the artist and his moment that contributes to a more expansive history of art in the twentieth century."--<i>Antiques and the Arts Weekly</i> <p/>"Not only does Anne Monahan offer insights into the mind and methods of Horace Pippin, but she also gives us a rarely explored, comprehensive view into the inner workings of a burgeoning American art scene, an enterprise which relied upon this self-taught luminary for its own identity and advancement."--Richard J. Powell, Duke University <p/>"Monahan has achieved such an impressive sense of Pippin's internal developments and career-long motifs that she can adeptly shuttle between works, genres, and themes to build complex arguments about the artist's cumulative impact."--Jennifer Jane Marshall, University of Minnesota <p/>"Monahan challenges the predominant narrative of Pippin's life and work, convincingly demonstrating the problems of previous scholarship and providing sound evidence for her own."--John P. Bowles, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill <p/><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><p><b>Anne Monahan</b> is an art historian based in New York.</p>
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