A richly illustrated re-discovery of a great artist who was among the first to create images
and sculptures of African-American life and history to close a gap in the canon of art history.
At the start of the twentieth century there were certain absences in the way that African
American history was represented in the canon of art history. Some collective experiences
lacked images with which people could identify which were necessary for the idea of community
and a shared iconography to emerge. These images - clear precise and invariably personal
portraits of people close to her and heroines or showing events from African American history -
were created by Elizabeth Catlett. Text: Benjamin H. D. Buchloh E.N. Mirembe Hannah Black
Manthia Diawara und Terri Geis Melanie Herzog Precious Okoyomon.
