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Mary Lee Bendolph, Gee's Bend Quilts, and Beyond

Author: Joanne Cubbs

Publisher:

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 80

ISBN-13:

Mary Lee Bendolph's extraordinary patchworks garnered national attention when they were featured among the works of other quiltmakers from her tiny, predominately African American community in the 2002 blockbuster exhibition and book,The Quilts of Gee's Bend. This beautiful book examines Bendolph's inspiration, creative process, and individual genius, as well as her profound connection to the cultural practices and expressive traditions out of which her work arises. It studies her artistic relationships with other artists -- her mother, Aolar Mosely; her daughter, Essie Bendolph Pettway; her daughter-in-law Louisiana P. Bendolph; and two self-taught Alabama artists, Lonnie Holley and Thornton Dial. Bendolph's conception of herself as an artist is intimately connected to all of these aesthetic relationships, which together provide contexts for understanding the full scope and power of her work. As they intersect in Bendolph's life and art, these deep social and aesthetic networks give rise to new pathways of artistic influence and exchange, to a body of work that is a powerful mixture of communal and individual creative energies.

Gee's Bend

Author: John Beardsley

Publisher: Tinwood Books

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 440

ISBN-13: 9780971910409

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Since the 19th century, the women of Gee’s Bend in southern Alabama have created stunning, vibrant quilts. Beautifully illustrated with 350 color illustrations, 30 black-and-white illustrations, and charts, Gee’s Bend to Rehoboth is being·released in conjunction with a national exhibition tour including The Museum of Fine Art, Houston, and the Whitney Museum of American Art.

Gee's Bend

Author: William Arnett

Publisher: Tinwood Books

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 228

ISBN-13: 9780971910478

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In 2002, Gee’s Bend burst into international prominence through the success of Tinwood’s Quilts of Gee’s Bend exhibition and book, which revealed an important and previously invisible art tradition from the African American South. Critics and popular audiences alike marveled at these quilts that combined the best of contemporary design with a deeply rooted ethnic heritage and compelling human stories about the women. Gee's Bend: The Architecture of the Quilt is a major book and museum exhibition that will premiere at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (MFAH), in June 2006 before traveling to seven American museums through 2008. The book's 330 color illustrations and insightful text bring home the exciting experience to readers while displaying all the cultural heritage and craftsmanship that have gone into these remarkable quilts.

Leaving Gee's Bend

Author: Irene Latham

Publisher: NewSouth Books

Published: 2017-03-01

Total Pages: 192

ISBN-13: 1588383326

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Ludelphia Bennett may be blind in one eye, but that doesn't mean she can't put in a good stitch. In fact, Ludelphia sews all the time, especially when things are going wrong. But when Mama gets deathly ill, it doesn't seem like even quilting will help. Mama needs medicine badly—medicine that can only be found in Camden, over forty miles away. That's when Ludelphia decides to do something drastic—leave Gee's Bend. Beyond the cotton fields of her small sharecropping community, Ludelphia discovers a world she never imagined, but there's also danger lurking for a young girl on her own. Set in 1932 and inspired by the rich quilting traditions of Gee's Bend, Alabama, Leaving Gee's Bend is a delightful story of a young girl facing a brave new world, presented in a new paperback edition.

The Quilts of Gee's Bend

Author: John Beardsley

Publisher: Tinwood Books

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 200

ISBN-13: 9780965376648

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Since the 19th century, the women of Gee s Bend in southern Alabama have created stunning, vibrant quilts. Beautifully illustrated with 110 color illustrations, The Quilts of Gee s Bend includes a historical overview of the two hundred years of extraordinary quilt-making in this African-American community, its people, and their art-making tradition. This book is being.released in conjunction with a national exhibition tour including The Museum of Fine Art, Houston, and the Whitney Museum of American Art."

Among Others

Author: Darby English

Publisher:

Published: 2019-08-20

Total Pages: 488

ISBN-13: 9781633450349

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Among Others: Blackness at MoMA begins with an essay that provides a rigorous and in-depth analysis of MoMA's history regarding racial issues. It also calls for further developments, leaving space for other scholars to draw on particular moments of that history. It takes an integrated approach to the study of racial blackness and its representation: the book stresses inclusion and, as such, the plate section, rather than isolating black artists, features works by non-black artists dealing with race and race- related subjects. As a collection book, the volume provides scholars and curators with information about the Museum's holdings, at times disclosing works that have been little documented or exhibited. The numerous and high-quality illustrations will appeal to anyone interested in art made by black artists, or in modern art in general.

Gee's Bend

Author: Elyzabeth Gregory Wilder

Publisher: Samuel French, Inc.

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 69

ISBN-13: 057366367X

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"Gee's Bend depicts the turbulent history of African-Americans in the 20th century by focusing on a single family in the real community of Gee's Bend, Alabama, which is now famous for the beautiful quilts created by the women that grew up there."--Back cover.

Outliers and American Vanguard Art

Author: Lynne Cooke

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 2018

Total Pages: 396

ISBN-13: 9780226522272

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Some 250 works explore three distinct periods in American history when mainstream and outlier artists intersected, ushering in new paradigms based on inclusion, integration, and assimilation. The exhibition aligns work by such diverse artists as Charles Sheeler, Christina Ramberg, and Matt Mullican with both historic folk art and works by self-taught artists ranging from Horace Pippin to Janet Sobel and Joseph Yoakum. It also examines a recent influx of radically expressive work made on the margins that redefined the boundaries of the mainstream art world, while challenging the very categories of "outsider" and "self-taught." Historicizing the shifting identity and role of this distinctly American version of modernism's "other," the exhibition probes assumptions about creativity, artistic practice, and the role of the artist in contemporary culture. The exhibition is curated by Lynne Cooke, senior curator, special projects in modern art, National Gallery of Art.--Provided by publisher.

Responses to Gee's Bend

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Publisher:

Published: 2018

Total Pages: 40

ISBN-13:

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"Catalog of the quilts created by quilters inspired by the quilters of Gee 's Bend, AL. These quilts were exhibited in the McCabe Library at Swarthmore College in September and October 2018, concurrent with an exhibit of quilts by Mary Lee Bendolph of Gee's Bend, AL in the List Gallery and the McCabe Library at the college."--

Creation Story

Author: Mark Scala

Publisher: In Collaboration with Frist Ar

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780826518811

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From everyday materials in African American life, powerful and poetic works of modern art