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Accompanies the major retrospective of Everlyn Nicodemus's work at National Galleries Scotland: Modern One, Edinburgh, 19 October 2024 to 25 May 2025. Her extraordinary life and art is explored in a new artist interview and expert contributions.
List of contents
Directors' Foreword
'Tell Me Your Stories', Everlyn Nicodemus interviewed by Perrin M. Lathrop
A Chagga Saga of Beauty Braving Trauma, Catherine de Zegher
Some Reflections, Eddie Chambers
EVERLYN NICODEMUS, Stephanie Straine
Notes
Bibliography
Acknowledgements
Credits
About the author
Professor Eddie Chambers is David Bruton Jr. Centennial Professor in Art History at the University of Texas at Austin. He is editor of
The Routledge Companion to African American Art History (2022, Routledge) and author of
World is Africa: Writings on Diaspora Art (2021, Bloomsbury).
Dr Perrin M. Lathrop is Assistant Curator of African Art at Princeton University Art Museum, and is co-curator and editor of
African Modernism in America (2022, Yale University Press).
Catherine de Zegher is a curator, art historian and former Director of Drawing Center, New York, and is a long-standing supporter of Nicodemus’s practice.
Stephanie Straine is Senior Curator, Modern and Contemporary Art at National Galleries Scotland.
Summary
Accompanies the major retrospective of Everlyn Nicodemus's work at National Galleries Scotland: Modern One, Edinburgh, 19 October 2024 to 25 May 2025. Her extraordinary life and art is explored in a new artist interview and expert contributions.
