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Melvin Edwards : Lynch fragments

Title
  1. Melvin Edwards : Lynch fragments / edited by Adriano Pedrosa and Rodrigo Moura ; curated by Rodrigo Moura. Texts: Hamid Irbouh [and 3 more]
Published by
  1. São Paulo : MASP, 2018.
Author
  1. Edwards, Melvin, 1937-

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Additional authors
  1. Pedrosa, Adriano
  2. Moura, Rodrigo
  3. Irbouh, Hamid
  4. Museu de Arte de São Paulo Assis Chateaubriand, issuing body, host institution.
Description
  1. 250 pages : illustrations; 26 cm.
Summary
  1. Melvin Edwards (b.1937) is a pioneer in the history of contemporary African-American art and sculpture. Born in Houston, Texas, he began his artistic career at the University of Southern California. The exhibition is the artist¿s first solo exhibition in Brazil. It brings together 38 works from the iconic sculpture series by one of the most important American artists of his generation. The exhibited works span more than five decades of his production -from 1963 to 2016- and its starting point coincides with a crucial period of the civil rights movement in the United States. Page [7]. Edwards uses welds scraps of found metal to create new forms, and the sculptures¿ implicit threat of violence derives in part from the chains, nails, and other tools of which they are constructed. He made this work during and immediately following a residency in Zimbabwe.
Uniform title
  1. Works. Selections
Alternative title
  1. Works.
Subject
  1. Edwards, Melvin, 1937- > Exhibitions
  2. Sculpture, American > 21st century > Exhibitions
  3. Metal sculpture, American > Exhibitions
  4. African American sculpture > Exhibitions
Contents
  1. Foreword / Itau Cultural -- Melvin Edwards at MASP / Heitor Martins, Adriano Pedrosa -- Lynch Fragments: pieces of life, shards of history / Rodrigo Moura -- Art for times of insurrection / Renata Bittencourt -- "Nigeria is ok for me! Memory and history in "Ibadan Oke" (1992) and "Ile Ogun" ( 2003) / Rebecca Wolff -- Melvin Edwards' Lynch Fragments: Negritude and the battle for civil rights in America / Hamid Irbouh Reproductions of the works List of the works in the exhibition Curriculum Selected bibliography.
Owning institution
  1. Princeton University Library
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographic references (pages 246-250)
Language (note)
  1. In English.