Archibald Motley: Jazz Age Modernist
Durham, NC: Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, 2014. Softcover. Quarto. Softcover. Illustrated wraps. xi, 171 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), portraits ; 29 cm. As new. In shrinkwrap. Item #215552
ISBN: 9780938989370
Featuring more than 140 colour illustrations, this catalogue accompanies the first full-scale survey in 20 years of the work of Archibald John Motley, Jr. (1891-1981), a master colourist and radical interpreter of urban culture. Motley's brilliant yet idiosyncratic paintings - simultaneously expressionist and social realist - have captured worldwide attention with their rainbow-hued, syncopated compositions. The catalogue includes the artist's depictions of African American life in early-twentieth-century Chicago, as well as his portraits and archetypes, portrayals of African American life in Jazz Age Paris, and renderings of 1950s Mexico--.
OCLC: 864788447
Price: $85.00