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A richly illustrated exploration of the work of artist Elizabeth Catlett. This book presents exciting new scholarship on the work of Mexican and American artist Elizabeth Catlett (1915-2012). Accompanying an exhibition at the Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, Persevere and Resist reconsiders Catlett's works through the lens of contemporary psychology and sociology. Catlett was one of the most important visual chroniclers of the African American experience in the twentieth century. In addition to her print and drawing practice, Catlett was also an accomplished sculptor working in stone, wood, and clay in her lengthy career, which spanned six decades. The book offers reproductions of nearly three dozen prints and sculptures, along with an essay by noted Catlett expert Melanie Herzog that explores the artist's life through the lens of today's social concerns.

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9781913645106

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…striking, comprehensive catalogue. * Misc US Reviewer 05/07/2021 *

...striking, comprehensive catalogue. * Misc US Reviewer 05/07/2021 *

The Memphis Brooks Museum of Art is one of only three museums that owns the entire fifteen-print collection, which is significant in that the images and their titles, when read in sequence, narrate an heroic and painful history of African American women . . . the book is a must read. = * Print Quarterly * …striking, comprehensive catalogue. * Misc US Reviewer 05/07/2021 *

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Heather Nickels is the Joyce Blackmon Curatorial Fellow in African American Art and Art of the African Diaspora at the Memphis Brooks Museum of Art in Tennessee.

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