Overview
A visual exploration of the lasting legacy of sculptor Augusta Savage (1892-1962), African-American sculptor associated with the Harlem Renaissance. This is a timely, visual, exploration of the fascinating life and lasting legacy of sculptor Augusta Savage (1892-1962), who overcame poverty, racism, and sexual discrimination to become one of America's most influential twentieth-century artists. Her story is one of community-building, activism, and art education. Born just outside Jacksonville, Florida, Savage left the South to pursue new opportunities and opened a studio in Harlem, New York City, offering free art classes. She co-founded the Harlem Artists' Guild in 1935 and became the first director of the federally-supported Harlem Community Art Center. Through her leadership there, Savage played an instrumental role in the development of many artists: William Artis, Gwendolyn Knight, Gwendolyn Bennett, Norman Lewis, Jacob Lawrence, Robert Blackburn, Romare Bearden, among many others. This ground-breaking volume features fifty works by Savage, and those she mentored or influenced, as well as correspondence and period photographs. AUTHOR: Jeffreen Hayes, PhD is a trained art historian and curator, who merges administrative, curatorial and academic practices into her cultural practice of supporting artists and community development. SELLING POINTS: . A timely, visual exploration of the life, art and lasting legacy of Augusta Savage (1892-1962) . Features illustrations of more than forty works by Savage, her students and her contemporaries, archival letters and rarely seen photographs 80 colour images
Full Product Details
Author: Jeffreen M. Hayes ,
Kirsten Pai Buick ,
Bridget R. Cooks ,
Howard Dodson
Publisher: D Giles Ltd
Imprint: D Giles Ltd
ISBN: 9781911282228
ISBN 10: 1911282220
Pages: 156
Publication Date: 23 October 2018
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Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
""A welcome addition to the scant coverage of this important and influential American artist""--Courtenay McLeland, ARLIS/NA
A welcome addition to the scant coverage of this important and influential American artist --Courtenay McLeland, ARLIS/NA
Author Information
Jeffreen M. Hayes, Ph.D. is an art historian, curator, and the Executive Director of Threewalls, a non-profit contemporary art space based in Chicago. Howard Dodson is the former director of New York Public Library’s Schomburg Center. Bridget R. Cooks fills a joint appointment in the Program in African American Studies and the Department of Art History at University of California, Irvine. Kirsten Pai Buick, Ph.D. is associate professor, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque.
