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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice book in great condition. Pages in excellent condition. Spine slightly faded. No notes or highlighting. See images. Fantastic book. About the book >.>.> Wadsworth Jarrell has created a body of work that is astonishing both in its depth of narrative subject matter and in its breadth of visual excitement. Born in Georgia in 1929, he received his formal art education at the Art Institute of Chicago, but his vibrant style of painting grew directly from his immersion in and reaction to the civil rights movement and the liberation struggle of the 1960s. From the very beginning of his artistic career-which started immediately upon his graduation from the Art Institute-Jarrell refused to align himself on a continuous basis with main- stream galleries or art establishments. Instead, he allied himself with other black artists to seek a self- determining artistic philosophy that would free African American art from narrow European concepts and theories. A member of the Organiza- tion of Black American Culture and a founding member of AFRI-COBRA, a group of artists dedi- cated to creating an African American aesthetic, Jarrell has always placed hi. Seller Inventory # Batch-FM340-VG-8258
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Title: Wadsworth Jarrell: The Artist as ...
Publisher: Pomegranate
Publication Date: 1996
Binding: Softcover
Condition: Very Good
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