As featured in The Wall Street Journal‘s 2024 Holiday Gift Books: Fine Art
The definitive monograph of Sam Gilliam one of the great innovators in post-war American painting
An African American artist in the nation’s capital at the height of the Civil Rights movement, Sam Gilliam blazed a trail with his singular artistic vision. Gilliam emerged from the Washington, DC art scene in the mid 1960s with works that disrupted established artistic norms and styles.
Relentlessly experimental and inspired by the improvisatory ethos of jazz, Gilliam’s lyrical abstractions took on an increasing variety of forms, moods, and materials.
This book, made in close collaboration with the Sam Gilliam Foundation, is the first to comprehensively survey the breadth of his extraordinary career, and features never-before-seen archival materials an insightful newly commissioned texts that shine light on the artist, his life, and his work, together with examples of Gilliam’s work spanning five decades.
Author: Ishmael Reed, Mary Schmidt Campbell, Andria Hickey
Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Phaidon Press
Published: 12/03/2024
Pages: 304
Weight: 4.85lbs
Size: 12.50h x 9.30w x 1.40d
ISBN: 9781838663933
Language: English
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