Art and Race Matters: The Career of Robert Colescott
This is the most comprehensive volume devoted to the life and work of pioneering African American artist Robert Colescott (1925-2009). The catalog accompanied the largest traveling exhibition of Colescott's work ever mounted, and was organized by the Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati in 2020. The exhibition traveled to the Portland Art Museum, Oregon; the Chicago Cultural Center, Illinois; and the Sarasota Museum of Art, Florida.
Know for figurative satirical paintings that exposed the ugly ironies of race in America from the 1970s through the late 1990s, Colescott's work was profoundly influential to the generations of artists that have followed him, such as Kara Walker, Kehinde Wiley, and Henry Taylor, among many others.
The catalog includes contributions by more than ten curators and writers, including a substantive essay by the show's curator, Lowery Stokes Sims.
Hardcover, full-color illustrations.
Published by Rizzoli Electa, 2020.
$60