Barthé
Subtitle: a life in sculpture
By: Margaret Rose Vendryes ; foreword by Jeffrey Stewart.
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Jackson
Language: eng
Number of pages: 229
ISBN-13: 9781604730920
Subjects: Barthé, Richmond, -- 1901-1989; African American sculptors -- Biography
Genres: Biography.
Description: "Richmond Barthe was the first modern African American sculptor to garner substantial critical success. Much of Barthe's biography is recorded here for the first time in tandem with analyses and interpretations of his sculpture. Barthe: A Life in Sculpture reveals the breadth of Barthe's oeuvre through readings of his figurative masterworks that attest to accomplishments in a life lived well beyond race."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Clemente's boy; title: Sculptor from Chicago; title: Africa; title: Negro roman catholic; title: Expatriate; title: Barthe drive.