Bisa Butler: Tender Monuments (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781588348388)

Vendor: Myrtle Elizabeth Andrews
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Format: Hardcover
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Bisa Butler: Tender Monuments

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Bisa Butler: Tender Monuments

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Format: Hardcover
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Experience contemporary artist Bisa Butler's technicolor storytelling that has transformed the art world with portrait quilts joyously depicting Black subjects

This striking coffee-table art book features 76 photos that capture the artistry and detail of more than 40 larger-than-life quilts

Bisa Butler's electrifying fusion of quilting, portraiture, and African American history and culture has made her one of the most exciting artists at work today. The Smithsonian American Art Museum will present the largest survey of Butler's work to date, and this stunning companion catalog features more than 40 of her striking, life-sized quilt portraits.

Often depicting people from photographs, Butler amplifies their presence and memory through massive scale, vibrant colors, and distinctive textures. The quilts reflect empowerment and dignity as they celebrate Black life, with most figures looking the viewers directly in their eyes, inviting them to engage with their humanity. The book features 76 gorgeous photos that capture the larger-than-life quilts up-close and from multiple angles to fully appreciate the artristy of works such as:

  • Don't Tread On Me, God Damn, Let's Go!--The Harlem Hellfighters, a tribute to Black soldiers who fought in World War I. At 11 x 13 feet, it's Butler's largest quilt to date.
  • Hot, Cold, and Vicious depicts hip hop group Salt-N-Pepa in their signature bomber jackets, boots, and bodysuits.
  • I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings features the piercing gazes, dance-like poses, and radiant confidence of four Black women using education to better their lives.

Two keynote essays, vignettes highlighting individual quilts, and an interview with the artist reflect on the showstopping works and how Butler makes them all her own. Bisa Butler: Tender Monuments is a resplendent celebration of a one-of-a kind artist making work that transcends time and tradition.

Author: Myrtle Elizabeth Andrews
ISBN-10: 1588348385
ISBN-13: 9781588348388
Publisher: Smithsonian Books
Language: English
Published: 03/16/2027
Pages: 176
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.25lbs
By Myrtle Elizabeth Andrews
By Myrtle Elizabeth Andrews
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MYRTLE ELIZABETH ANDREWS is the director of the Spelman College Museum of Fine Art and co-editor of Black American Portraits. DALILA SCRUGGS is the Augusta Savage Curator of African American Art at the Smithsonian American Art Museum. Scruggs is responsible for shaping the museum's exhibition programming and collecting priorities as they relate broadly to African American art, a longstanding area of strength of the museum's holdings distinguished by its depth and range. The SMITHSONIAN AMERICAN ART MUSEUM holds one of the world's largest and most inclusive collections of art made in the United States, from the colonial period to the present.

BISA BUTLER is an award-winning American fiber artist whose vivid, life-size quilted portraits of Black individuals reimagine the medium and the genre. Working from contemporary and historical photographs, Butler recreates the scenes, animating the subjects using unique blends of colorful, patterned, and textured fabrics.

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