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American Masters of the Mississippi Gulf Coast

George Ohr, Dusti Bongé, Walter Anderson, Richmond Barthe

By: Patti Carr Black

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American Masters of the Mississippi Gulf Coast

George Ohr, Dusti Bongé, Walter Anderson, Richmond Barthe

By: Patti Carr Black

A celebration of four Mississippi artists and their nationally renowned work

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Univ. Press of Mississippi

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1604732059

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9781604732054

Art in Mississippi, 1720-1980

By: Patti Carr Black

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In Art in Mississippi Patti Carr Black focuses on several hundred significant artists and showcases in full color the work of more than two hundred. Nationally acclaimed native Mississippians are hereGeorge Ohr, Walter Anderson, Marie Hull, Theora Hamblett, William Dunlap, Sam Gilliam, William Hollingsworth, Jr., Karl Wolfe, Mildred Nungester Wolfe, John McCrady, Ed McGowin, James Seawright, and many others. Prominent artists who lived or worked in the state for a significant period of time are included as well - John James Audubon, Louis Comfort Tiffany, George Caleb Bingham, William Aiken Walker, and more. Black explores how art reflects the land and how modes of living and values dictated by Mississippi's changing topography created a variety of art forms. She demonstrates the influence of Mississippi's diverse cultures upon the art and shows how it has responded in many forms - painting, architecture, sculpture, fine crafts - to the changing aesthetics of national art movements.

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Univ. Press of Mississippi

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1578060842

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9781578060849

Touring Literary Mississippi

By: Patti Carr Black,Marion Garrard Barnwell

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Touring Literary Mississippi

By: Patti Carr Black,Marion Garrard Barnwell

By taking the literary traveler on seven preplanned tours—through the Delta, along Highway 61, to the heart of Faulkner’s Yoknapatawpha country, to sites near Interstate 55 and the Natchez Trace, to the piney woods of East and South Mississippi, and along the sun-struck Gulf Coast—this book captures the phenomenal abundance and diversity of Mississippi literature. More than a guidebook, this book includes capsule biographies and well over a hundred photographs of writers, their residences, and their literary environments. It also provides maps and gives explicit directions to writers’ homes and other literary sites. The sheer number of writers discovered, recovered, and claimed by Mississippi will astonish travelers both from within and from without the state. Included are not only such major figures in the pantheon of American literature as William Faulkner, Eudora Welty, Tennessee Williams, and Richard Wright but also the less well-known. Every nook and cranny of the state claims a piece of Mississippi’s literary heritage. Literature pervades Yazoo City, Jackson, Greenville, Oxford, Natchez, the Gulf Coast, and the Delta Blues country. Willie Morris, Richard Ford, and Beverly Lowry have declared that a famous writer’s presence in their hometowns convinced them that they too could be writers. As the locations bring to life the connection of ordinary rituals with the stuff of fiction, poetry, and memoir, these hands-on tours make evident the special cross-pollination of writer and community in Mississippi.

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282

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Univ. Press of Mississippi

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1496801644

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9781496801647

The Mississippi Story

By: Patti Carr Black,Mississippi Museum of Art

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The Mississippi Story

By: Patti Carr Black,Mississippi Museum of Art

The Mississippi Story invites readers to examine the connection between place and the visual arts of the state. Based on an exhibition from the permanent collection of the Mississippi Museum of Art, this book explores artwork produced within the state by artists who were native to or lived in Mississippi or by travelers who created work about the state. Patti Carr Black presents the overall theme of place in four sections: the influence of the land on the art, Mississippi's people as depicted in its art, life in Mississippi as observed by its artists, and the exporting of Mississippi culture through its artists. Numerous artists' biographies are included as well as more than one hundred full-color illustrations.

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Univ. Press of Mississippi

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1887422145

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9781887422147

Art in Mississippi, 1720-1980

By: Patti Carr Black

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Arkansas Off the Beaten Path

By: Patti DeLano

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Arkansas Off the Beaten Path

By: Patti DeLano

Find out where shoes grow on trees and where beer is served curbside with this offbeat guide to the Natural State.

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Insiders' Guide

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0762735155

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9780762735150

American Masters of the Mississippi Gulf Coast

George Ohr, Dusti Bongé, Walter Anderson, Richmond Barthe

By: Patti Carr Black

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American Masters of the Mississippi Gulf Coast

George Ohr, Dusti Bongé, Walter Anderson, Richmond Barthe

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A celebration of four Mississippi artists and their nationally renowned work

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Spirit of the Delta

The Art of Carolyn Norris

By: Dorothy Sample Shawhan

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Spirit of the Delta

The Art of Carolyn Norris

By: Dorothy Sample Shawhan

Raised in West Virginia, self-taught artist Carolyn Norris (b. 1948) moved as a young woman of twenty-one to Cleveland, Mississippi, a quintessential Delta railroad town on the famous blues Highway 61. To create one of her first paintings, she tore the wooden back off a dresser to use as a canvas. She painted with available house paint and completed the painting with face makeup. Thus began the realization of a passionate need to paint. Eventually, Norris came to serve as the visual griot of Cleveland. She has used a variety of media, painting on canvas, wood, paper, cardboard, glass, plates, tiles, sheets, floor covering, and mirrors. She also uses her garage door as a giant mural chronicling community events. In her extraordinary images, Norris shows daily black life in the modern Delta. Spirit of the Delta contains 115 color images pulled from Norris's twenty-five years as a painter. Her existing artwork has been photographed by noted local photographer Kim Rushing and copies of the works that no longer exist have been found whenever possible. The book features a biographical essay on Carolyn Norris by Dorothy Sample Shawhan and an essay on her artwork by critic Patti Carr Black, who places Norris within self-taught traditions. In an interview with folklorist Tom Rankin, which took place in 1991, Norris explains the centrality of art in her life.

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