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Joe Overstreet : taking flight / [curated by] Natalie Dupêcher ; with contributions by Darby English, Richard Hylton, Corrine Jennings, Rebecca Rabinow, Ishmael Reed, Abbe Schriber, Jacqueline Siegal ; [organized by the Menil Collection].
Fine Arts Library ND237.O93 A4 2025
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Overstreet, Joe, artist.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Overstreet, Joe--Exhibitions.
- Overstreet, Joe.
- African American painting--Exhibitions.
- African American painting.
- Painting--United States--Exhibitions.
- Painting.
- Painters--United States.
- Painters.
- African American painters.
- Genre:
- exhibition catalogs.
- Exhibition catalogs.
- Physical Description:
- 183 pages : color illustrations ; 30 cm
- Other Title:
- Taking flight
- Place of Publication:
- Houston, TX : Menil Collection, [2025]
- Summary:
- "This groundbreaking survey of abstract paintings by Joe Overstreet (1933–2019) recognizes his energizing presence in the Black Arts Movement and situates his socially engaged and spatially challenging work within today’s crucial redefinition of the modernist canon. Overstreet’s Flight Patterns series, created from 1969 to 1973, is at the center of this book. These intensely colored acrylic-on-canvas works are hung with ropes tethering them to the ceiling, floor, walls—a vital exploration of geometries and free-form installation. In addition, the book includes new studies of Overstreet’s shaped canvas constructions of the 1960s and his mammoth Facing the Door of No Return works, quickly painted in a rush of inspiration after his 1992 trip to Senegal and encounter with the embarkation point of Africans shipped for enslavement in the New World. Essays on Overstreet’s shaped canvases, Flight Patterns, and the Facing the Door of No Return paintings accompany full-color photographs of the works, and a detailed chronology places Overstreet’s career in its time." -- taken from publisher's website
- Contents:
- Foreword / Rebecca Rabinow
- Acknowledgments / Natalie Dupêcher
- Taking flight / Natalie Dupêcher
- Afrofuturist abstraction: Joe overstreet's shaped canvases / Abbe Schriber
- Where is the support? / Darby English
- "The taut uneasy tensions of our time": Joe Overstreet in Houston / Rebecca Rabinow
- Facing history: The significance of Joe Overstreet’s facing the door of no return, 1993 / Richard Hylton
- Joe Overstreet: The self-sufficient artist / Ishmael Reed
- Interview with Corrine Jennings
- Chronology / Jacqueline Siegel
- Selected bibliography / Jacqueline Siegel.
- Notes:
- Catalog of an exhibition held at Menil Collection from January 24 to July 17, 2025.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 169-172) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780300282061
- 0300282060
- OCLC:
- 1528907947
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