Testimony
Subtitle: vernacular art of the African-American south
By: essays by Kinshasha Conwill ... [et al.].
Contributors: Conwill, Kinshasha.; Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.; Exhibitions International.
Publisher: H.N. Abrams in association with Exhibitions International and the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
Published: 2001
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 192
Subjects: Shelp, Ronald Kent -- Art collections -- Exhibitions; Shelp, June -- Art collections -- Exhibitions; African American art -- Southern States -- Exhibitions; Outsider art -- Southern States -- Exhibitions; Art, American -- 20th century -- Exhibitions; Art -- Private collections -- United States -- Exhibitions
Genres: Exhibitions.
Description: "For the past two decades, African-American vernacular art of the South - noted for its powerful imagery and colorful palette - has attracted growing art-world interest.

This book and its accompanying exhibition, organized by the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture and Exhibitions International, present an extraordinary collection of contemporary work that serves as testimony to the continuing struggle for social justice, cultural identity, and spiritual and personal fulfillment experienced by Southern African Americans.".

"Drawn from the collection of Ronald and June Shelp, more than 100 paintings, drawings, and sculptures by twenty-seven self-taught black artists are represented. They range from the most celebrated practitioners - such as Thornton Dial Sr., Bessie Harvey, Lonnie Holley, Ronald Lockett, Mose Tolliver, and Purvis Young - to less known but no less fascinating figures such as Archie Byron, J. B. Murray, Lorenzo Scott, and Georgia and Henry Speller.

The largest group of works are by Dial and by members of his extended family - Arthur Dial, Richard Dial, Thornton Dial Jr., and Ronald Lockett - permitting a survey of the inter-connections within this Alabama dynasty of artists."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: "The Ronald and June Shelp Collection."

Published in conjunction with the exhibition and organized by The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture of the New York Public Library and Exhibitions International, New York.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 184-189) and index.
Table of contents: title: African-American art and contemporary critical practice / Judith M. McWillie; title: The end of the outsider / Arthur C. Danto; title: Becoming art : life spans, biographies, and the Shelp collection / Grey Gundaker; title: Feeling at home with vernacular African-American art / Kinshasha Conwill; title: Witnessing : layered meanings in vernacular art / Edmund Barry Gaither; title: Witness to history / Leroy Almon ... [et al.]; title: Allegorical animals / Thornton Dial Sr. ... [et al.]; title: Bibilical scenes / Mary Proctor ... [et al.]; title: Iconic human figures / Mary Tillman Smith, Archie Byron; title: Spiritual and protective messages / John (J.B.) Murray ... [et al.]; title: Direct observation / James "Son" Thomas ... [et al.].