Horace Pippin, American Modern by Anne Monahan (Hardcover, 2020)

Yale University Press

Horace Pippin, American ModernAuthor(s): Anne Monahan\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Yale University Press, United States\nImprint: Yale University Press\nISBN-13: 9780300243307, 978-0300243307\nSynopsis\nA nuanced reassessment that transforms our understanding of this self-taught artist\n\nArguably the most successful African American artist of his day, Horace Pippin [tel] taught himself to paint in the 1930s and quickly earned international renown for depictions of World War I, black families, and American heroes Abraham Lincoln, abolitionist John Brown, and singer Marian Anderson, among other subjects. This volume sheds new light on how the disabled combat veteran claimed his place in the contemporary art world. Organized around topics of autobiography, black labor, artistic process, and gift exchange, it reveals the range of references and critiques encoded in his work and the racial, class, and cultural dynamics that informed his meteoric career. Horace Pippin, American Modern of.