Figuring History: Robert Colescott, Kerry James Marshall, Mickalene Thomas

by Jacqueline Francis and Lowery Stokes Sims

Book Overview

Contemporary artists Robert Colescott (1925-2009), Kerry James Marshall (b. 1955), and Mickalene Thomas (b. 1971) are distinguished by their attention to a history of representation, which they re-visit and revise to reflect on individual and collective Black experience. Equally engaged with social and political histories, and the history of art, Colescott, Marshall, and Thomas have created works that at times poignantly and satirically critique dominant...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300233892
• ISBN13: 9780300233896
• Release Date: March 2018
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 1.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 12.2" x 9.2"