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Informationen zum Autor Miranda Lash and Trevor Schoonmaker, editors Klappentext Featuring the work of sixty artists and including 300 illustrations, this catalog accompanies a major contemporary art exhibition that questions and explores the complex and contested space of the American South. This exhibition investigates the many realities, fantasies, and myths of the South that have long captured the public's imagination, while presenting a wide range of perspectives that create a composite portrait of southern identity through contemporary art. Zusammenfassung Published on the occasion of the exhibition Southern accent: seeking the American South in contemporary art! co-corganized by the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University! Durham! North Carolina! and Speed Art Museum! Louisville! Kentucky. Inhaltsverzeichnis Directors' Foreword / 12 Curators' Acknowledgments 14 What Do We Envision When We Talk about the South? / Miranda Lash 19 Southern Accent: The Sound of Seeing / Trevor Schoonmaker 55 South / Natasha Trethewey 77 Latinos and the North Carolina Landscape / Diego Camposeco 83 Riding the Soul Food Rickshaw / John T. Edge 87 Accents Inside My Head / Carter Foster 91 KEW ACM ALT / Kara Walker and Ari Marcopoulos 95 On Things Unseen / Tom Rankin 101 Porch and Drawl / Richard J. Powell 107 Southern Mountain Time / Jeff Whetstone 121 Womanish / Brittney Cooper 127 "Humming This Song Trying to Remember the Way Another One Goes": Intermedia Conversations in a Southern Vernacular / Brendan Greaves 137 Down Home on the Moon / Mark Anthony Neal 157 I Reckon / Harrison Haynes 165 The Three Great Alabama Icons / Patterson Hood 171 Soul Food / Fahamu Pecou 177 No Lonesome Road / Catherine Opie 183 Honky-Tonks and Hospices / Dario Robleto 187 Medicine / Mel Chin 191 The Fast-Talking, Knife-Throwing, Trouble-Making Motorcycle Legend and Naturalist, Jim Roche, Makes Some Damn Good Work / Bradley Sumrall 197 Field Bling / Ada Limón 203 Southern Accent Music Library / Brendan Greaves, Harrison Haynes, and Trevor Schoonmaker 205 Chronology of Southern Art and Scholarship / Andrew Hibbard 213 The First Southern Rim Experience / William Fagaly 221 Southern Accent Reading List / Miranda Lash 225 Exhibition Checklist 231 Reproduction Credits 260 Curator Biographies 268 Lenders to the Exhibition 269 Board Members 270 Museum Staff 271...
