Emma Amos
Subtitle: color odyssey
By: edited and with an essay by Shawnya L. Harris ; and essays by Lisa Farrington, LaToya Ruby Frazier, Laurel Garber, Kay Walkingstick, and Phoebe Wolfskill
Contributors: Georgia Museum of Art; Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute
Publisher: Georgia Museum of Art, University of Georgia
Published: 2021
Place of publication: Athens, Ga.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 186
ISBN-13: 9780915977468
Copyright date: 2021
Subjects: Exhibitions; Criticism and interpretation; Artists; Biography
Other titles: Color odyssey
Description: "Born in Atlanta, Georgia, Emma Amos (1937-2020) was a distinguished painter and printmaker. She is best known for her bold and colorful mixed-media paintings that create visual tapestries in which she examines the intersection of race, class, gender and privilege in both the art world and society at large. This survey exhibition and catalogue, published and organized by the Georgia Museum of Art, include approximately 60 works from the beginnings of her career to the end of it, reflecting her experiences as a painter, printmaker, and weaver. Her large-scale canvases often incorporate African fabrics and semiautobiographical content, which are drawn from her personal odyssey as an artist, her interest in icons in art and world history and her sometimes tenuous engagement with these themes as a woman of color"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Foreword / -- William U. Eiland -- Acknowledgments / -- Shawnya L. Harris; title: Emma Amos: a memory  -- Kay Walkingstick; title: Emma Amos: color odyssey  -- Shawnya L. Harris; title: Woman's work: fabric and feminism  -- Lisa Farrington; title: "To invent the human figure": Emma Amos's experimental printmaking  -- Laurel Garber; title: Photographic disruption in the art of Emma Amos  -- Phoebe Wolfskill; title: A celebration and memory of Emma Amos, the woman who taught me how to be an artist -- LaToya Ruby Frazier-- Chronology-- Catalogue of the exhibition-- Selected bibliography-- Selected exhibitions-- Selected public collections and lenders to the exhibition-- About the authors.