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Subtitle: finding beauty, demanding equity : an African American life in art : the collections of Peggy Cooper Cafritz
By: Peggy Cooper Cafritz, with contributions by Njideka Akunyii Crosby [and 10 others] ; edited by Peggy Cooper Cafritz and Charmaine Picard
Contributors: Crosby, Njideka Akunyili, 1983- author; Picard, Charmaine, editor
Publisher: Rizzoli International Publications, Incorporated
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 286
ISBN-13: 9780847860586
Copyright date: 2017
Subjects: Catalogs; Art collections; Art; Private collections; African American art
Description: "After decades of art collecting, prominent Washington, D.C. based activist, philanthropist, and founder of the Duke Ellington School of the Arts, Peggy Cooper Cafritz had amassed one of the most important collections of contemporary African American art in the country. But in 2009, the more than 300 works that composed this extraordinary collection were destroyed in the largest residential fire in Washington, D.C. history. The pioneering collection included work by Kara Walker, Kerry James Marshall, Mickalene Thomas, Kehinde Wiley, Barkley Hendricks, David Hammons, Chris Ofili, and Carrie Mae Weems, among many others. This beautifully illustrated volume features 200 of the works that were lost, along with works that she has collected since the fire, as well as important contributions by preeminent curators and artists." -- Provided by publisher.
Table of contents: title: Soul memories / Peggy Cooper Cafritz; title: Collections / Kerry James Marshall; title: Swing time : aesthetics, blackness, and the curatorial eye of Peggy Cooper Cafritz / Uri McMillan; title: The encourager / Simone Leigh, Tschabalala Sef, Titus Kaphar, Njideka Akunyii Crosby, William Villalongo, LaToya Ruby Frazier; title: Phoenix : mood indigo / Hank Willis Thomas; title: For the love of art / Jack Shainman; title: Thelma Golden and Peggy Cooper Cafritz in conversation.