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"Bill Traylor (ca. 1853-1949) is regarded today as one of the most important American artists of the twentieth century. A black man born into slavery in Alabama, he was an eyewitness to history--the Civil War, Emancipation, Reconstruction, Jim Crow segregation, the Great Migration, and the steady rise of African American urban culture in the South. Traylor would not live to see the civil rights movement, but he was among those who laid its foundation. Starting around 1939, Traylor--by then in his late eighties and living on the streets of Montgomery--took up pencil and paintbrush to attest to his existence and point of view. In keeping with this radical step, the paintings and drawings he made are visually striking and politically assertive; they include simple yet powerful distillations of tales and memories as well as spare, vibrantly colored abstractions. When Traylor died, he left behind more than one thousand works of art. In Between Worlds: The Art of Bill Traylor, Leslie Umberger considers more than two hundred artworks to provide the most comprehensive and in-depth study of the artist to date; she examines his life, art, and powerful drive to bear witness through the only means he had, pictures. The author draws on a wealth of historical documents--including federal and state census records, birth and death certificates, slave schedules, and interviews with family members-- to clarify the record of Traylor's personal history and family life. The story of his art opens in the late 1930s, when Traylor first received attention for his pencil drawings on found board, and concludes with the posthumous success of his oeuvre"--
Outsider art --- 741.07 --- 75.07 --- 7.077 --- Traylor, Bill 1853-1949 (Verenigde Staten) --- Outsider Art --- Afro-Amerikaanse kunst --- Naive art --- Art --- Tekenkunst ; tekenkunstenaars A - Z --- Schilderkunst ; schilders --- Amateurkunstenaars --- Traylor, Bill, --- mezzotint [process] --- outsider art --- African American --- Traylor, Bill
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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, will provide 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.
Outsider art --- African American artists --- Primitivism in art --- Traylor, Bill, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Drawing --- empathy --- slavery --- humor --- outsider art --- outsider artists --- observation --- silhouette artists --- silhouettes --- pencils [drawing and writing equipment] --- Traylor, Bill --- United States of America
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Traylor, Bill --- Bearden, Romare --- Colescott, Robert --- Andrews, Benny --- Puryear, Martin --- Hammons, David --- Hunter, Nathaniel --- Allen, Jules --- U.S.A
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Difficult to categorize and branded as "naïve"--art history had and still has a hard time with works by the great autodidacts: artists such as Henri Rousseau, André Bauchant, Morris Hirshfield, Bill Traylor, Alfred Wallis, or Séraphine Louis are far too often isolated in the light of an exotic primitivism, so to speak. Instead, the publication and the exhibition at the Museum Folkwang, since its founding the first museum worldwide devoted to modern art, surround their energy-laden works with key works from the modern era. It is not by chance that many of the autodidacts fascinated the established artists of today with their paintings and sculptures, and often sponsored them. From this perspective, even contemporaries such as Miroslav Tichy make a contribution to the development of art and are no longer merely its antagonists. Exhibition: Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany (02.10.2015-10.01.2016).
avant-garde --- naive artists --- Brutalist --- self-taught art --- outsider art --- Art --- art [fine art] --- Ramírez, Martín --- Bödeker, Erich --- Nikifor --- Traylor, Bill --- Eilshemius, Louis M. --- Tichý, Miroslav --- Trillhaase, Adalbert --- Bauchant, André --- Hirshfield, Morris --- Wallis, Alfred --- Rousseau, Henri --- Louis, Séraphine --- Edmondson, William --- anno 1900-1999 --- Eilshemius, Louis Michel --- Krynicki, Nikifor --- 20ste eeuw --- Outsider art --- Avant-garde (Aesthetics) --- Avant-garde (Aesthetics). --- Outsider art. --- Naive art --- Exhibitions --- MAD-faculty 16 --- Kunstenaars 19e-20e eeuw --- tentoonstellingscatalogus --- Kunst. --- Tentoonstellingscatalogus. --- autodidacte kunst. --- avant-garde. --- brutalisme. --- kunst. --- naieven. --- outsiderkunst. --- Bauchant, Andre. --- Bodeker, Erich., --- Edmondson, William. --- Hirshfield, Morris. --- Louis, Seraphine. --- Nikifor. --- Ramirez, Martin. --- Rousseau, Henri. --- Tichy, Miroslav. --- Traylor, Bill, --- Trillhaase, Adalbert. --- Wallis, Alfred. --- anno 1900-1999. --- Bauchant, André. --- Bödeker, Erich. --- Eilshemius, Louis Michel. --- Louis, Séraphine. --- Krynicki, Nikifor. --- Ramírez, Martín. --- Tichý, Miroslav. --- Traylor, Bill. --- 20ste eeuw. --- art [discipline] --- Bauchant, André, --- Bodeker, Erich, --- Edmondson, William, --- Eilshemius, Louis M., --- Hirshfield, Morris, --- Louis, Seraphine, --- Nikifor, --- Ramirez, Martin, --- Rousseau, Henri, --- Tichy, Miroslav, --- Trillhaase, Adalbert, --- Wallis, Alfred,
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Some 250 works explore three distinct periods in American history when mainstream and outlier artists intersected, ushering in new paradigms based on inclusion, integration, and assimilation. The exhibition aligns work by such diverse artists as Charles Sheeler, Christina Ramberg, and Matt Mullican with both historic folk art and works by self-taught artists ranging from Horace Pippin to Janet Sobel and Joseph Yoakum. It also examines a recent influx of radically expressive work made on the margins that redefined the boundaries of the mainstream art world, while challenging the very categories of "outsider" and "self-taught." Historicizing the shifting identity and role of this distinctly American version of modernism's "other," the exhibition probes assumptions about creativity, artistic practice, and the role of the artist in contemporary culture. The exhibition is curated by Lynne Cooke, senior curator, special projects in modern art, National Gallery of Art.
art history --- avant-garde --- outsider art --- folk art [traditional art] --- self-taught artists --- outsider artists --- outsider art --- Edmondson, William --- Lankton, Greer --- Morgan, Sister Gertrude --- Pippin, Horace --- Ramírez, Martín --- Saar, Betye --- Scott, Judith --- Sobel, Janet --- Traylor, Bill --- Yoakum, Joseph --- Ramberg, Christina --- Sherman, Cindy --- Mullican, Matt --- Walker, Kara --- Darger, Henry --- Sheeler, Charles --- United States of America
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kunst --- tekenkunst --- schilderkunst --- beeldhouwkunst --- installaties --- outsider art --- twintigste eeuw --- eenentwintigste eeuw --- Wölfli Adolf --- Hirshfield Morris --- Gill Madge --- Traylor Bill --- Corbaz Aloïse --- Darger Henry --- Ramirez Martin --- Walla August --- Chand Nek --- Finster Howard --- Dial Thornton --- Nedjar Michel --- 7.077 --- Art and society --- Art brut --- Art, Primitive --- Outsider art --- Naive art --- Primitive art --- Brut, Art --- Psychiatric art --- Psychotic art --- Raw art --- Art --- Art and sociology --- Society and art --- Sociology and art --- Social aspects --- Art, Prehistoric --- Folk art --- Art, Occidental --- Art, Visual --- Art, Western (Western countries) --- Arts, Fine --- Arts, Visual --- Fine arts --- Iconography --- Occidental art --- Visual arts --- Western art (Western countries) --- Arts --- Aesthetics
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