The Dirty South: Contemporary Art, Material Culture, and the Sonic Impulse

by Valerie Cassel Oliver

This exhibition catalog to the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts' The Dirty South: Contemporary Art, Material Culture, and the Sonic Impulse chronicles the pervasive visual and sonic parallels in the work of Black artists from the southern United States. It looks to contemporary southern hip-hop as a portal into the roots and aesthetic legacies that have shaped contemporary art from the 1920s to the present. It features multiple generations of both academically...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1934351199
• ISBN13: 9781934351192
• Release Date: September 2021
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 4.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 11.4" x 10.8"