Kerry James Marshall: Inside/Out
Text by Elena Filipovic
Legendary Chicago-based painter Kerry James Marshall is as much an astute social critic and incredible authority on art history as he is a painter’s painter. In addition to reproductions of paintings, this book presents the text of a speech Marshall gave at Museum Ludwig in Cologne, Germany, upon receiving the Wolfgang Hahn Prize in 2014, a prize awarded annually to artists who have an “oeuvre that has consistently and substantially continued to develop and is recognized by international experts.”
In the lecture he talks about his life, about his interest in Afro-American culture, about social injustice, race relations, power dynamics, and ultimately calls for the black subject, so long ignored in art history, to finally be represented—in reaction to the fact that beauty has been synonymous with being white through almost all of art history.
Publisher: Walther König, Köln
Artists: Kerry James Marshall
Publication Date: 2019
Binding: Hardcover
Dimensions: 6 1/2 x 9 1/4 in | 16.5 x 23.5 cm
Pages: 92
Reproductions: 41 color
ISBN: 9783960983941
Retail: $25 | £20
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Kerry James Marshall
With a career spanning almost three decades, Kerry James Marshall is well known for his paintings depicting actual and imagined events from African-American history. His complex and multilayered portrayals of youths, interiors, nudes, housing estate gardens, land- and seascapes synthesize different traditions and genres, while seeking to counter stereotypical representations of black people in society. Marshall also produces drawings in the style of comic books, sculptural installations, photography, and video. As with his paintings, these works accumulate various stylistic influences to address the historiography of black art, while at the same time drawing attention to the fact that they are not inherently partisan because their subjects are black.
