{"product_id":"joe-overstreet-taking-flight-9780300282061","title":"Joe Overstreet: Taking Flight","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe first survey of Joe Overstreet, abstract painter of the Black Arts Movement and forecaster of Afrofuturism\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e This groundbreaking survey of abstract paintings by Joe Overstreet (1933-2019) recognizes his energizing presence in the Black Arts Movement and situates his socially engaged and spatially challenging work within today's crucial redefinition of the modernist canon. Overstreet's Flight Patterns series, created from 1969 to 1973, is at the center of this book. These intensely colored acrylic-on-canvas works are hung with ropes tethering them to the ceiling, floor, walls--a vital exploration of geometries and free-form installation. In addition, the book includes new studies of Overstreet's shaped canvas constructions of the 1960s and his mammoth Facing the Door of No Return works, quickly painted in a rush of inspiration after his 1992 trip to Senegal and encounter with the embarkation point of Africans shipped for enslavement in the New World. Essays on Overstreet's shaped canvases, Flight Patterns, and the Facing the Door of No Return paintings accompany full-color photographs of the works, and a detailed chronology places Overstreet's career in its time. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Distributed for the Menil Collection \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eExhibition Schedule: \u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Menil Collection, Houston, TX\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e (January 24-July 13, 2025) \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eMississippi Museum of Art, Jackson\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e (November 1, 2025-January 25, 2026)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNatalie Dupêcher\u003c\/b\u003e is associate curator of modern art for the Menil Collection, Houston, TX. \u003cb\u003eDarby English\u003c\/b\u003e is Carl Darling Buck Professor of Art History at the University of Chicago. \u003cb\u003eRichard Hylton\u003c\/b\u003e is lecturer in contemporary art at SOAS, University of London. \u003cb\u003eRebecca Rabinow\u003c\/b\u003e is director, The Menil Collection, Houston, TX. \u003cb\u003eAbbe Schriber\u003c\/b\u003e is assistant professor of art history, University of South Carolina, Columbia.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Menil Foundation","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51474966446354,"sku":"9780300282061","price":43.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_e5313a6f-6259-4a73-81e5-ba74d2b206bb.jpg?v=1752584054","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/joe-overstreet-taking-flight-9780300282061","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}