Augusta Savage - The Shape of a Sculptor's Life

"A powerful biography in poems about Augusta Savage, the trailblazing artist and pillar of the Harlem Renaissance-with an afterword by the curator of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture"--

A propos de l'auteur

Marilyn Nelson is the author of many award-winning books, including August Savage, which was named to Kirkus, School Library Journal, and The Horn Book’s Best of Year lists in addition to receiving a Black Caucus ALA Honor and the Bank Street College of Education’s Claudia Lewis Award for Poetry. She is also the author of Carver: A Life in Poems, which was a National Book Award finalist, a Newbery Honor Book, and a Coretta Scott King Honor Book, and A Wreath for Emmett Till, which garnered a Coretta Scott King Honor, a Printz Honor, and a Lee Bennett Hopkins Poetry Award Honor. Marilyn lives in Connecticut.

Tammi Lawson is the curator of the Art and Artifacts Division at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture and the steward of a collection of over fifteen thousand items that visually document the Black Diaspora. The Schomburg also houses the largest collection of art by Augusta Savage in a public institution. The New York Public Library recently awarded Lawson the 2020 Bertha Franklin Feder Award for Excellence in Librarianship.

Résumé

A powerful biography in poems? about a trailblazing artist and a pillar of the Harlem Renaissance-with an afterword by the curator of the Art & Artifacts Division of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.

Préface

A powerful biography in poems about a trailblazing artist and a pillar of the Harlem Renaissance-with an afterword by the curator of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: Marilyn Nelson, Nelson Marilyn
• Edition: Little, Brown and Company
• Langues: Anglais
• Recommandation d'âge: 14 à 18 ans
• Format d'édition: Livre Relié
• Sortie: 12.07.2022
• EAN: 9780316298025
• ISBN: 978-0-316-29802-5
• Pages: 128
• Dimensions: 158 mm x 238 mm x 18 mm
• Poids: 300 g
• Catégories: Livres pour enfants et adolescents > Littérature spécialisée (texte ou images) > Histoire, politique; USA, YOUNG ADULT NONFICTION / Poetry, YOUNG ADULT NONFICTION / Biography & Autobiography / Women, United States of America, USA, Relating to African American people, Poetry (Children's / Teenage), Children’s / Teenage: Poetry, Children’s / Teenage general interest: Girls and women