Artist as Author: Action and Intent in Late-Modernist American Painting by Christa Noel Robbins

Author:Christa Noel Robbins [Robbins, Christa Noel]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: ART015020 Art / American / General, American, General, Criticism & Theory, ART009000 Art / Criticism & Theory, history, ART000000 Art / General, art, Contemporary (1945-), ART015110 Art / History / Contemporary (1945-)
ISBN: 9780226752952
Google: UEU6EAAAQBAJ
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2021-06-29T00:27:14.872565+00:00

Figure 5.1. Sam Gilliam, Bow Form Construction, 1968. Acrylic on canvas with aluminum powder and enamel, 118 × 330 in. (flat). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. © 2020 Sam Gilliam / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.

It is hard to imagine that Gilliam, a Black man born and raised in the South, would not have been deeply affected by these events. One of the few direct acknowledgments of the studio’s being located in such a charged political space comes from an undated biographical statement located in the Archives of American Art. In that statement, Gilliam typed and then crossed out the following:

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