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Book Synopsis The Art and Life of Clarence Major by : Keith E. Byerman
Download or read book The Art and Life of Clarence Major written by Keith E. Byerman and published by . This book was released on 2016-05-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Clarence Major is an award-winning painter, fiction writer, and poet-as well as an essayist, editor, anthologist, lexicographer, and memoirist. He has been part of twenty-eight group exhibitions, has had fifteen one-man shows, and has published fourteen collections of poetry and nine works of fiction. The author traces Major's life and career from his complex family history in Georgia through his encounters with important literary and artistic figures in Chicago and New York to his present status as a respected writer, artist, teacher, and scholar living in California.
Book Synopsis Dirty Bird Blues by : Clarence Major
Download or read book Dirty Bird Blues written by Clarence Major and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2022-02-08 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A quietly influential force in African American literature and art, Clarence Major makes his Penguin Classics debut with the twenty-fifth-anniversary edition of Dirty Bird Blues The PRH Audio book of Dirty Bird Blues by Clarence Major won a 2022 EARPHONE AWARD. Narrated by Dion Graham. A Penguin Classic Set in post-World War II Chicago and Omaha, the novel features Manfred Banks, a young, harmonica-blowing blues singer who is always writing music in his head. Torn between his friendships with fellow musicians and nightclub life and his responsibilities to his wife and child, along with the pressures of dealing with a racist America that assaults him at every turn, Manfred seeks easy answers in "Dirty Bird" (Old Crow whiskey) and in moving on. He moves to Omaha with hopes of better opportunities as a blue-collar worker, but the blues in his soul and the dreams in his mind keep bringing him back to face himself. After a nightmarish descent into his own depths, Manfred emerges with fresh awareness and possibility. Through Manfred, we witness and experience the process by which modern American English has been vitalized and strengthened by the poetry and the poignancy of the African-American experience. As Manfred struggles with the oppressive constraints of society and his private turmoil, his rich inner voice resonates with the blues.
Book Synopsis The Paintings and Drawings of Clarence Major by : Clarence Major
Download or read book The Paintings and Drawings of Clarence Major written by Clarence Major and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2019-02-01 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the first volume to collect the paintings and drawings of Clarence Major, readers are offered six decades of unique, colorful, and compelling canvases and works on paper—works of singular beauty and social relevance. These works represent Major’s personal painterly journey of passionate commitment to art. This generous selection of more than 150 paintings and drawings shows us the melding of rich ideas and fertile images, the braiding of imagination and motif. With their pleasing arrangement of elements, the works come vividly to life. Major often juxtaposes a decorative scheme with his own unique choice of color combinations, reinforced with rigorous brushstrokes that release chromatic energy. The paintings complement and challenge the great traditions of Realism, Impressionism, and Expressionism. Major is primarily a figurative and landscape painter. Here we find landscapes of singular vitality, rich in color and design, dramatic landscapes, and cityscapes representing, among other things, Major’s extensive travels in America and Europe. We are also treated to Major’s signature figurative work. In these paintings, he ventures fearlessly into familiar yet unexpected areas of richness. Also included is an introductory essay, “The Education of a Painter,” written by the artist, which further sheds light on and helps to lay a biographical, social, and historical foundation for this essential volume, reflecting a lifetime of serious commitment to painting at its best.
Book Synopsis The Art and Life of Clarence Major by : Keith Eldon Byerman
Download or read book The Art and Life of Clarence Major written by Keith Eldon Byerman and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Clarence Major is an award-winning painter, fiction writer, and poet-as well as an essayist, editor, anthologist, lexicographer, and memoirist. He has been part of twenty-eight group exhibitions, has had fifteen one-man shows, and has published fourteen collections of poetry and nine works of fiction. The author traces Major's life and career from his complex family history in Georgia through his encounters with important literary and artistic figures in Chicago and New York to his present status as a respected writer, artist, teacher, and scholar living in California.
Book Synopsis Waiting for Sweet Betty by : Clarence Major
Download or read book Waiting for Sweet Betty written by Clarence Major and published by Copper Canyon Press. This book was released on 2002-01-01 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The follow-up to Clarence Major's National Book Award finalist volume, "Configurations."
Download or read book My Amputations written by Clarence Major and published by University of Alabama Press. This book was released on 2008-01-07 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This novel is about a man pursued by his shadow. Its protagonist is either a desperate ex-con who has become convinced that he is an important American novelist or a desperate American novelist who has become convinced that he, and most of what passes for literary life on three continents, is a con.
Book Synopsis Reflex and Bone Structure by : Clarence Major
Download or read book Reflex and Bone Structure written by Clarence Major and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Weaves a mystery in which imagination and fiction become tangled with reality.
Book Synopsis Thunderclouds in the Forecast by : Clarence Major
Download or read book Thunderclouds in the Forecast written by Clarence Major and published by TriQuarterly Books. This book was released on 2021-10-15 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This novel follows two friends, one Black and one white, who grew up wards of the state in New York. As adults, Ray has found success while Scotty struggles, but both seek love, comfort, and a place in the world.
Book Synopsis Necessary Distance by : Clarence Major
Download or read book Necessary Distance written by Clarence Major and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author, a 1999 National Book Award finalist, presents a collection of critical essays, articles, and reviews.
Book Synopsis All-night Visitors by : Clarence Major
Download or read book All-night Visitors written by Clarence Major and published by UPNE. This book was released on 1998 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "All-Night Visitors is devoted to lush description. Mr. Major is unquestionably a sincere and passionate writer." -- New York Times
Book Synopsis The Lurking Place by : Clarence Major
Download or read book The Lurking Place written by Clarence Major and published by . This book was released on 2021-06 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An engaging new novel by African-American literary icon Clarence Major reveals personal and political parallels between the past and present.
Download or read book Black Slang written by Clarence Major and published by Routledge. This book was released on 1970 with total page 127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Seizing the Word by : Keith E. Byerman
Download or read book Seizing the Word written by Keith E. Byerman and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2010-08-01 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seizing the Word offers a comprehensive reading of the work of W. E. B. Du Bois (1868–1963), a pivotal figure in the intellectual life of nineteenth- and twentieth-century America. As a historian, journalist, novelist, poet, and social and literary critic, this extraordinary man profoundly influenced our understanding of the African American experience. Following his initial discussion of Du Bois's earliest writing, Keith E. Byerman posits The Souls of Black Folk (1903) as a master text that established the tropes of doubleconsciousness and the veil for which Du Bois is known, and incorporated the various genres through which he voiced his understanding of the world. The remainder of the study discusses Du Bois's works as elaborations of the master text within and against the contemporary discourses on history, art, and self. Throughout Byerman examines the connections between the personal and intellectual aspects of Du Bois's life to reveal the intense engagement with moral and ideological issues found even in texts that Du Bois represented as “objective.” At the same time, in order to present some of the complexity and conflict that runs through Du Bois's work, Byerman identifies the tensions and patterns in Du Bois's writing that cross disciplines or genres. Instead of focusing on one aspect of Du Bois's career, Seizing the Word attempts a more synthetic approach, primarily by examining Du Bois in terms of contemporary literary and cultural theory, most notably Lacan's Law of the Father and Erikson's work on identity.
Download or read book Juba to Jive written by Clarence Major and published by Puffin Books. This book was released on 1994 with total page 596 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on scholarly investigations and common usage, this comprehensive collection of terms, from the days of slavery to the present, is the only up-to-date record of this rich, ever-evolving language born in the African-American community and permeating every aspect of our culture.
Book Synopsis Clarence H. White and His World by : Anne McCauley
Download or read book Clarence H. White and His World written by Anne McCauley and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2017-01-01 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Restoring a gifted art photographer to his place in the American canon and, in the process, reshaping and expanding our understanding of early 20th-century American photography Clarence H. White (1871–1925) was one of the most influential art photographers and teachers of the early 20th century and a founding member of the Photo-Secession. This beautiful publication offers a new appraisal of White’s contributions, including his groundbreaking aesthetic experiments, his commitment to the ideals of American socialism, and his embrace of the expanding fields of photographic book and fashion illustration, celebrity portraiture, and advertising. Based on extensive archival research, the book challenges the idea of an abrupt rupture between prewar, soft-focus idealizing photography and postwar “modernism” to paint a more nuanced picture of American culture in the Progressive era. Clarence H. White and His World begins with the artist’s early work in Ohio, which shares with the nascent Arts and Crafts movement the advocacy of hand production, closeness to nature, and the simple life. White’s involvement with the Photo-Secession and his move to New York in 1906 mark a shift in his production, as it grew to encompass commercial portraiture and an increasing commitment to teaching, which ultimately led him to establish the first institutions in America to combine instruction in both technical and aesthetic aspects of photography. The book also incorporates new formal and scientific analysis of White’s work and techniques, a complete exhibition record, and many unpublished illustrations of the moody outdoor scenes and quiet images of domestic life for which he was revered.
Book Synopsis The New Black Poetry by : Clarence Major
Download or read book The New Black Poetry written by Clarence Major and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Copy 3 is to replace the 2 missing copies noted in both holdings records.
Download or read book Fun & Games written by Clarence Major and published by Holy Cow Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
