Barthé: A Life in Sculpture by Vendryes, Margaret Rose
Barthé: A Life in Sculpture by Vendryes, Margaret Rose

Barthé: A Life in Sculpture

Richmond Barthé (1901-1989) was the first modern African American sculptor to achieve real critical success. His accessible...
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Author: Margaret Rose Vendryes
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Language: English
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Barthé: A Life in Sculpture by Vendryes, Margaret Rose

Barthé: A Life in Sculpture

$601.78
Barthé: A Life in Sculpture by Vendryes, Margaret Rose

Barthé: A Life in Sculpture

$601.78
Author: Margaret Rose Vendryes
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Description
Richmond Barthé (1901-1989) was the first modern African American sculptor to achieve real critical success. His accessible naturalism led to unprecedented celebrity for an artist during the 1930s and 1940s. After four years of academic training at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Barthé reaped the benefits of the 1920s New Negro Arts Renaissance. He also endured difficulties as a gay, Roman Catholic, Creole sculptor working during the nation's post-World War II era. He gave his black subjects in particular an intensity and sensuality that attracted important European American patrons and the press.

Much of Barthé's biography is recorded here for the first time in tandem with analyses and interpretations of his sculpture. Born to Creole parents in Bay St. Louis, Mississippi, Barthé's art brought him out of poverty. At the height of his fame, he was often criticized for not talking about injustices African Americans faced. He expected his art to speak not only for itself, but also for him. He fled the United States for an expatriate's life in Jamaica only to learn that, as an artist and a black man, he could not be accepted on his own terms, and there was no such thing as a perfect home. Barthé A Life in Sculpture reveals the breadth of Barthé's oeuvre through readings of his figurative masterworks that attest to accomplishments in a life lived well beyond race.

Author: Margaret Rose Vendryes
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
Published: 10/22/2008
Pages: 256
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 2.30lbs
Size: 10.00h x 7.20w x 1.20d
ISBN: 9781604730920

About the Author
Vendryes, Margaret Rose: -

Independent scholar Margaret Rose Vendryes has taught art history and African American studies at York College, Princeton University, and the Graduate Center, City University of New York. She has published in International Review of African American Art and elsewhere.

Stewart, Jeffrey C.: -

Jeffrey C. Stewart, professor of history at George Mason University, is the author of numerous articles and books, including Paul Robeson: Artist and Citizen.



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