Research Catalog

Title

My soul has grown deep : Black art from the American South / Cheryl Finley, Randall R. Griffey, Amelia Peck, Darryl Pinckney.

Publication

New York : The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2018.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Finley, Cheryl
• Griffey, Randall R.
• Peck, Amelia
• Pinckney, Darryl, 1953-
• Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.), issuing body, host institution.

Description

116 pages : illustrations (chiefly color); 27 cm

Summary

My Soul Has Grown Deep considers the art-historical significance of self-taught Black artists, many working under conditions of poverty and isolation, in the American South. It features paintings and drawings, mixed-media and sculptural works, and quilts, including pieces ranging from the pioneering paintings of Thornton Dial (1928-2016) to the renowned quilts made in Gee's Bend, Alabama. Nearly 60 remarkable works of art--originally collected by the Souls Grown Deep Foundation--are illustrated alongside insightful texts that situate them in the context of rural Southern life, simultaneously revealing their connections to mainstream contemporary art while considering them on their own terms. Art historians Cheryl Finley, Randall R. Griffey, and Amelia Peck illuminate the artists' novel use of found or salvaged materials and the striking graphic aesthetic of the quilts, while a thoughtful essay by novelist Darryl Pinckney provides the historical and political context of the American South, during and after the Civil Rights era, in which this art is grounded. Each of the works, described and outstandingly illustrated, tells a remarkable story of artists who faced enormous difficulties, and whose creativity and determination produced extraordinary and unique forms of artistic expression.

Subjects

• African American art
• Black people in art
• Exhibition catalogs
• African American artists > Southern States > Exhibitions
• Souls Grown Deep Foundation Art collections > Exhibitions
• Southern States
• Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.) Exhibitions
• African American quilts > Exhibitions
• African Americans in art
• African American art > Southern States > Exhibitions
• Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)
• Art museums

Genre/Form

Exhibition catalogs.

Note

• This catalogue is published in conjunction with "History Refused to Die: Highlights from the Souls Grown Deep Foundation Gift," on view at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, from May 22 through September 23, 2018.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 99-112) and index.

Contents

Introduction: troubling the waters / Cheryl Finley -- Self-taught and modern / Randall R. Griffey -- Quilt / art: deconstructing the Gee's Bend quilt phenomenon / Amelia Peck -- The old country / Darryl Pinckney.

Call Number

Sc+ F 18-443

ISBN

• 9781588396099
• 1588396096

LCCN

2018003081

OCLC

1022075437

Title

My soul has grown deep : Black art from the American South / Cheryl Finley, Randall R. Griffey, Amelia Peck, Darryl Pinckney.

Publisher

New York : The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2018.

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 99-112) and index.

Local Note

Schomburg copy with dust jacket.

Added Author

Finley, Cheryl, author.

Griffey, Randall R., author.

Peck, Amelia, author.

Pinckney, Darryl, 1953- author.

Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.), issuing body, host institution.

Research Call Number

Sc+ F 18-443