Souls Grown Deep like the Rivers

Black Artists from the American South

Maxwell L. Anderson, Raina Lampkins-Fielder, Paul Goodwin

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English

Royal Academy of Arts
01 May 2023

A wide-ranging survey of Black art in the American South, from Thornton Dial and Nellie Mae Rowe to the quilters of Gee's Bend.

For generations, Black artists from the American South have forged a unique art tradition. Working in near isolation from established practices, they have created masterpieces in clay, driftwood, roots, soil, recycled and cast-off objects that articulate America's painful past the inhuman practice of enslavement, the cruel segregationist policies of the Jim Crow era, and institutionalised racism. Their works date from the early 20th century to today and respond to issues ranging from economic inequality, oppression and social marginalisation, to sexuality, the influence of place and ancestral memory. Among the sculptures, paintings, reliefs and drawings included here are works by Thornton Dial, Lonnie Holley, Ronald Lockett, Hawkins Bolden, Bessie Harvey, Charles Williams, Mary T. Smith, Purvis Young, Mose Tolliver, Nellie Mae Rowe, Mary Lee Bendolph, Marlene Bennett Jones, Martha Jane Pettway, Loretta Pettway, and Henry and Georgia Speller. Also featured are the celebrated quiltmakers of Gee's Bend, Alabama, and the neighbouring communities of Rehoboth and Alberta.

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Discover the Black artists from America's South who created some of the most spectacular and ingenious works of the last century .

Published to accompany an exhibition organised by the Royal Academy of Arts, London in collaboration with Souls Grown Deep Foundation, Atlanta, running from March 17 to June 18, 2023

125 colour illustrations

By: Maxwell L. Anderson, Raina Lampkins-Fielder, Paul Goodwin
Imprint: Royal Academy of Arts
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 260mm, Width: 190mm,
Weight: 728g
ISBN: 9781912520954
ISBN 10: 1912520958
Pages: 144
Publication Date: 01 May 2023
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Unspecified

8 President’s Foreword Rebecca Salter PRA 11 Preface Maxwell L. Anderson 12 Stories of Reclamation Raina Lampkins-Fielder 32 Catalogue plates 120 Biographies of the Artists Rebecca Bray | Emma Yau 136 Endnotes 137 Further Reading 139 Photographic Acknowledgements 140 Index

Reviews for Souls Grown Deep like the Rivers: Black Artists from the American South

"Speaks, above all, to the cultural life that has prevailed in communities shaped by histories of African exploitation and enslavement on the other side of the Atlantic Ocean, and that contrast, though uneasy, feels generative, too, and perhaps the first intimation of a longer process of reparation that is to come.--Ashish Ghadiali ""Guardian"""