A riveting conversation between the two artists, touching on seminal influences, experiences and practices
This thought-provoking publication presents a fecund dialogue between Chicago-based painter McArthur Binion (born 1946) and New York-based photographer Jules Allen (born 1947), two American artists taking different approaches to rendering the Black experience. To illustrate their interactions, Binion contributes a new series of paintings and Allen contributes his most recent images as well as a collection of archival black-and-white photographs. In a sinuous, stimulating conversation, the long-term friends discuss their musical influences, education and shared experiences developing their skills as artists in New York. Buoyed by mutual admiration, the two artists trade insights on one another's practice. In one striking example, Binion remarks that Allen endeavors to "take themes of the culture that were universal and personalize it, so it came from someplace specific to someplace general." The introduction penned by interdisciplinary scholar and writer Thulani Davis provides a zoomed-out jumping-off point before the reader is catapulted deep into the two artists' subjectivities.
Thulani Davis is a professor and a Nellie Y. McKay Fellow in the Afro-American Studies Department at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and author of My Confederate Kinfolk: A Twenty-first Century Freedwoman Discovers Her Roots. A poet and longtime writer for theater, film, and journalism, Davis has been a recipient of a Lila Wallace-Readers Digest Writers Award, a PEW Foundation National Theatre Artist Residency, and a Charles H. Revson Fellowship on the Future of New York City.
- Publisher: Gray
- Publish Date: September 10, 2024
- Pages: 100
- Dimensions: 7.7 X 10.1 X 0.7 inches | 1.5 pounds
- Language: English
- Type: Hardcover
- EAN/UPC: 9798985761375
- BISAC Categories: Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions - Group Shows, Techniques - Painting, Photoessays & Documentaries
