Thornton Dial in the 21st century /
"With illuminating essays by leading critics and art historians, an in-depth biography of the artist, and explorations of the southern black art traditions that underlie the artist's visual vocabulary, Thornton Dial in the 21st Century maps new terrain for the study of American art. Reprod...
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Atlanta :
Tinwood Books : in association with the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston,
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Table of Contents:
- Foreword / Peter C. Marzio
- The road from Emelle / William Arnett
- A cycle of works on art
- The aesthetics of (in)visibility : Thornton Dial and the politics of art / Joanne Cubbs, Mark Lawrence McPhail, and Eugene W. Metcalf Jr.
- A cycle of works on memory and autobiography
- Self-taught : on Dial's style / Paul Arnett
- A cycle of works on struggles for survival
- Revolutionary traditional art from the cultural commonwealth of Afro-Alabama / Amiri Baraka
- A cycle of works on quilts and Gee's Bend
- Creation story : Thornton Dial's quilt histories / Bernard L. Herman
- A cycle of works on September 11, 2001
- Thornton Dial at Ground Zero : to build means to destroy / Amei Wallach
- A cycle of works on America after September 11, 2001
- Thornton Dial and contemporary history / Richard R. Brettell
- His story/History : Thornton Dial in the twentieth century / John Beardsley
- "An attitude of hugeness" : Thornton Dial and his circle / Alvia J. Wardlaw
- An artist in the twenty-first century / Jane Livingston
- Afterword / Thomas McEvilley.