The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005
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Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)
Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)
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Purvis Young PUBLICATIONS
1943 Liberty City, Florida - 2010 Miami, Florida. Known for: Mod naive urban views, installation.
The work of the urban black vernacular artist, Purvis Young, has roots in the dreamy fields of high art subject matter-evoking Picasso in its riders, its elegant horses, its nudes. At the same time... Read full biography
The work of the urban black vernacular artist, Purvis Young, has roots in the dreamy fields of high art subject matter-evoking Picasso in its riders, its elegant horses, its nudes. At the same time it is filled with the energy and syncretism of the world's vanguard-American urban Black culture. It... Read full biography
The work of the urban black vernacular artist, Purvis Young, has roots in the dreamy fields of high art subject matter-evoking Picasso in its riders, its elegant horses, its nudes. At the same time it is filled with the energy and syncretism of the world's vanguard-American urban Black culture. It is to "outsider art" what be bop is to the blues. The subject matter rides on a thick layer of color, attention, choice, free-swinging composition that refers to a thousand years of composition before... Read full biography
The work of the urban black vernacular artist, Purvis Young, has roots in the dreamy fields of high art subject matter-evoking Picasso in its riders, its elegant horses, its nudes. At the same time it is filled with the energy and syncretism of the world's vanguard-American urban Black culture. It is to "outsider art" what be bop is to the blues. The subject matter rides on a thick layer of color, attention, choice, free-swinging composition that refers to a thousand years of composition before it. Young lives and works in Overtown, a neighborhood in Miami cut off by the highway overpasses that loom over it. He is "of the community, but is also, now, of the larger art world as well." He has researched art history avidly and has seen what... Read full biography
The work of the urban black vernacular artist, Purvis Young, has roots in the dreamy fields of high art subject matter-evoking Picasso in its riders, its elegant horses, its nudes. At the same time it is filled with the energy and syncretism of the world's vanguard-American urban Black culture. It is to "outsider art" what be bop is to the blues. The subject matter rides on a thick layer of color, attention, choice, free-swinging composition that refers to a thousand years of composition before it. Young lives and works in Overtown, a neighborhood in Miami cut off by the highway overpasses that loom over it. He is "of the community, but is also, now, of the larger art world as well." He has researched art history avidly and has seen what other artists have done, spending years in the libraries that have supported his work. He has chosen... Read full biography
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Books & Publications (8)
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Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition
2005Davenport, Ray2,421 pagesWho's Who in American Art, 2004 2003 - 2004 (25th Edition)
2004McGowan, Alison C (Editor)1,512 pagesTestimony: Vernacular Art of the African-American South: The Ronald and June Shelp Collection
2001
(Exhibition catalog)Conwill, Kinshasha, et. all192 pages (color)Art in the American South Works from the Ogden Collection
1996Delehanty, Randolph292 pages (color)Contemporary American Folk Art A Collectors's Guide
1996Rosenak, Chuck and Jan320 pages (color)A World of Their Own: Twentieth Century American Folk Art (Newark Museum)
1995Jacobs, Joseph88 pages (color)American Self-Taught: Paintings and Drawings by Outsider Artists
1993Maresca, Frank, Roger Ricco298 pages (color)