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Anna racconta il lungo e travagliato cammino che percorre dal momento in cui viene sottoposta al trapianto bipolmonare fino ai giorni in cui, lentamente, si riappropria della sua esistenza. Dai meandri oscuri del limbo ai bagliori della luce. Una presenza rassicurante, tuttora presente nella sua vita, le dà un aiuto per attraversare il tunnel. Un profondo percorso introspettivo fa emergere i sentimenti che caratterizzano la sua vita e che la rendono forte e determinata: la sofferenza, la solitudine e la gioia della rinascita. Il tutto è condito con un po' di ironia, l'ironia di chi, sul suo tacco 12, continua a stare in bilico sulla vita.
About the author
Peggy Cooper Cafritz is a Washington D.C.–based activist, philanthropist, and art collector, and the cofounder of the Duke Ellington School of the Arts. Thelma Golden is the director and chief curator of the Studio Museum in Harlem. Kerry James Marshall is a Chicago-based artist focusing on the history of black identity. Simone Leigh is a New York–based artist and curator exploring black female subjectivity and ethnography. Uri McMillan is a cultural historian and assistant professor of English at the University of California, Los Angeles. Hank Willis Thomas is a New York–based artist and curator exploring identity, history, and popular culture. Jack Shainman is one of New York’s top gallerists.
Summary
One of the most important collections of African American contemporary art: destroyed by fire in 2009 and published here for the first time.
After decades of art collecting, prominent Washington, d.c.–based activist, philanthropist, and founder of the august Duke Ellington School of the Arts, Peggy Cooper Cafritz had amassed one of the most important collections of contemporary African American art in the country. But in 2009, the more than 300 works that composed this extraordinary collection were destroyed in the largest residential fire in Washington, D.C. history. The pioneering collection included work by Kara Walker, Kerry James Marshall, Mickalene Thomas, Kehinde Wiley, Barkley Hendricks, David Hammons, Chris Ofili, and Carrie Mae Weems, among many others.
This beautifully illustrated volume features 200 of the works that were lost, along with works that she has collected since the fire, as well as important contributions by preeminent curators and artists.
