Beverly Buchanan: 1978-1981

Park McArthur

• Other Authors Beverly Buchanan (Artist), Jennifer Burris Staton (Contributor), Lowery Stokes Sims (Contributor), Alice Lovelace (Contributor)
• Title

  Beverly Buchanan: 1978-1981

• Date 2015
• ISBN 9780986205903
• Publisher Mexico City, Mexico: Athénée Press
• Description 95 p; 9 in; b/w ill
• Language English
• Collections Permanent Collection, Orit Gat Collection
• Summary

  In the summer of 1977, following a ten-year career as a public health educator in the Bronx and East Orange, New Jersey, Beverly Buchanan exhibited a selection of cast concrete sculptures at Truman Gallery on 38 East 57th Street. Three years later, in 1980, she received a Guggenheim Fellowship to create a large-scale public artwork using similar techniques in the Marshes of Glynn in Brunswick, Georgia. Following Lucy Lippard’s politicization of Land Art and earthworks, Beverly Buchanan, 1978 –1981 looks at the social and aesthetic propositions of Buchanan’s art practice from these formative years. Through the economic, social, and historical networks that constitute Buchanan’s sculptures, this book explores how the artist’s memorials, mounds, and living fields intersect with life in the American South (Artists Space). 

• Tags African American art, American art -- 20th century, Art criticism, Monograph, Sculpture