Passionate Observer - Eudora Welty Among Artists of the Thirties

A handsome and informative book featuring Welty among her peers in painting, photography, and other arts during the 1930s

About the author

René Paul Barilleaux, deputy director for programs at the Mississippi Museum of Art, is the co-curator of the exhibition on which this book is based. Suzanne Marrs, a noted Welty scholar, is a professor of English at Millsaps College in Jackson, Mississippi. Patti Carr Black, co-curator of this exhibition and former director of the Old Capitol Museum in Jackson, Mississippi, is the author of many books, including Art in Mississippi, 1720-1980, published by University Press of Mississippi. Francis V. O'Connor, a historian of American art and a specialist on New Deal art programs, lives in New York City.

Summary

Presents a selection of Eudora Welty's black-and-white photographs taken in the 1930s and shows how this acclaimed writer's second career as a photographer produced works that rank favourably with the visual art of her contemporaries.

Product details

• Authors: Eudora Welty
• Assisted by: Rena(c) Paul Barilleaux (Editor), Rene Paul Barilleaux (Editor)
• Publisher: University Press Of Mississippi
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 24.05.2002
• EAN: 9781887422062
• ISBN: 978-1-887422-06-2
• No. of pages: 84
• Dimensions: 212 mm x 242 mm x 14 mm
• Weight: 531 g
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Art > Photography, film, video, TV