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Debra Purden Valerie Rousseau Bill Traylor (Hardback). Author: Debra Purden, Valerie Rousseau. The story of Bill Traylor's life and work is a remarkable one. Title: Bill Traylor. Format: Hardback. Release Date: 01/01/2019. Release Year: 2019. Genre: Arts & Photography. Further DetailsTitle: Bill Traylor Condition: New Description: Born into slavery around 1853-4 on a cotton plantation in Benton, Alabama, Traylor has become one of the most important self-taught artists of the twentieth century, and certainly one of the most celebrated African-American artists, along with Thorton Dial and William Edmondson. The story of Bill Traylor's life and work is a remarkable one. It is a story that deserves attention both nationally and internationally. This publication, generously illustrated with full-page high-quality reproductions, provides a close examination of Traylor's recurrent themes, composition schemes, favoured iconography, and contextual information related to the artist's biography, creative process and tools, visual environment, and artistic mindset. Each artwork is considered in a context beyond that of an isolated image and in response to one another, forming a series of intricate and consistent narratives, intriguingly cinematic in its development. The elements of Traylor's biography are the anchors of an individual mythology. Instead of merely being a basic depiction, the subject becomes a visual statement structuring Traylor's mind, bringing together hidden symbols from Kongo Vodou, Hoodoo, Southern Baptist, Freemasonry, and Blues sources, as well as layers of references: slavery, uncensored violence in the Jim Crow era, and turbulence within the black enclave known as 'Dark Town' in Montgomery, Alabama. Text in English and French. Author: Debra Purden, Valerie Rousseau EAN: 9788874398218 Contributor: Margit Rowell (Foreword by) ISBN: 9788874398218 Format: Hardback Item Height: 280mm Item Length: 240mm Country/Region of Manufacture: IT Genre: Arts & Photography ISBN-10: 8874398212 Item Width: 23mm Publisher: Five Continents Editions Release Date: 01/01/2019 Language: French, English Item Weight: 1310g Release Year: 2019 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
