Melvin Edwards : Lynch fragments /

Melvin Edwards : Lynch fragments /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Edwards, Melvin, 1937-, artist.
Uniform title:	Works. Selections
Edition:	1a. edição.
Imprint:	São Paulo : MASP, 2018.
Description:	250 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.
Language:	English
Subject:	Edwards, Melvin, -- 1937- -- Exhibitions. Sculpture, American -- 21st century -- Exhibitions. Metal sculpture, American -- Exhibitions. African American sculpture -- Exhibitions.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11971566

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Other authors / contributors:	Pedrosa, Adriano, 1965-, editor. Moura, Rodrigo, editor, curator. Irbouh, Hamid, 1960-, editor. Museu de Arte de São Paulo Assis Chateaubriand, issuing body, host institution.
ISBN:	9788531000515 8531000513
Notes:	Includes bibliographic references (pages 246-250) In English.
Summary:	Melvin Edwards (b.1937) is a pioneer in the history of contemporary African-American art and sculpture. Born in Houston, Texas, he began his artistic career at the University of Southern California. The exhibition is the artistœs first solo exhibition in Brazil. It brings together 38 works from the iconic sculpture series by one of the most important American artists of his generation. The exhibited works span more than five decades of his production -from 1963 to 2016- and its starting point coincides with a crucial period of the civil rights movement in the United States.ʺ Page [7]. Edwards uses welds scraps of found metal to create new forms, and the sculpturesœ implicit threat of violence derives in part from the chains, nails, and other tools of which they are constructed. He made this work during and immediately following a residency in Zimbabwe.

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Summary:	Ominous and angular, the acclaimed steel sculptures of Melvin Edwards convey racial violence with edgy ingenuity This volume brings together a significant selection of works from the titular series by the New York-based sculptor Melvin Edwards (born 1937), created between 1963 and 2016, comprising more than 50 years of what is considered the artist's central body of work. Edwards started to produce the Fragments series when he lived in Los Angeles, at a crucial time of the civil rights movement in the United States. The works directly reference the practice of lynching after the abolition of slavery. Denouncing violence against African Americans, Edwards created these steel sculptures as forms between bodies and machines that can also be interpreted as weapons, given the sense of violence and danger suggested by their blunt, angular and protruding shapes. The selection of works in this book reflects the multiplicity of thematic interests and the formal variations across the series.
Physical Description:	250 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.
Bibliography:	Includes bibliographic references (pages 246-250)
ISBN:	9788531000515 8531000513