{"product_id":"sam-gilliam-9781838663933","title":"Sam Gilliam","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAs featured in \u003ci\u003eThe Wall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e's 2024 Holiday Gift Books: Fine Art\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe definitive monograph of Sam Gilliam one of the great innovators in post-war American painting \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e An African American artist in the nation's capital at the height of the Civil Rights movement, Sam Gilliam blazed a trail with his singular artistic vision. Gilliam emerged from the Washington, DC art scene in the mid 1960s with works that disrupted established artistic norms and styles.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Relentlessly experimental and inspired by the improvisatory ethos of jazz, Gilliam's lyrical abstractions took on an increasing variety of forms, moods, and materials.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book, made in close collaboration with the Sam Gilliam Foundation, is the first to comprehensively survey the breadth of his extraordinary career, and features never-before-seen archival materials an insightful newly commissioned texts that shine light on the artist, his life, and his work, together with examples of Gilliam's work spanning five decades.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e Ishmael Reed \u003c\/b\u003eis an American poet, novelist, essayist, songwriter, playwright, editor, and publisher. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e Mary Schmidt Campbell \u003c\/b\u003eis an art historian, scholar and President Emerita of Spelman College in Atlanta. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e Andria Hickey \u003c\/b\u003eis Head of Programmes at Fogo Island Arts and Shorefast in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e Sam Gilliam \u003c\/b\u003e(1933-2022)\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003ewas one of the great innovators in postwar American painting. He emerged from the Washington DC scene in the mid 1960s with works that elaborated upon and disrupted the ethos of Color School painting.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Phaidon Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50893884588306,"sku":"9781838663933","price":107.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_8cbacfb3-71bc-43eb-8677-a3dcba431394.jpg?v=1738241131","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/sam-gilliam-9781838663933","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}