Michael Ray Charles – A Retrospective Smith Hardback John Wiley & Sons

Michael Ray CharlesA Retrospective\nAuthor(s): Cherise Smith\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: University of Texas Press, United States\nImprint: University of Texas Press\nISBN-13: 9781477319178, 978-1477319178\nSynopsis\nSmithsonian American Art Museum's 2021 Charles C. Eldredge Prize for Distinguished Scholarship in American Art\n\nMichael Ray Charles is the most comprehensive presentation yet of the work of an artist who rose to prominence in the 1990s for works that engaged American stereotypes of African Americans. With a background in advertising and an archivists inquisitiveness, Charles developed an artistic practice that made startling use of found images and offered critiques of the narratives they fostered. Immersing readers in the imagination of this daring painter, Michael Ray Charles celebrates and contextualizes a singular, major figure in the art world.\n\nArt historian Cherise Smith collaborated with the artist to curate nearly one hundred color plates documenting nearl.