Joe Overstreet : Taking Flight
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Hardback or Cased Book
ISBN-10
0300282060
ISBN-13
9780300282061
Publisher
Yale University Press
Imprint
Yale University Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Jul 1st, 2025
Print length
184 Pages
Weight
1,476 grams
Dimensions
29.40 x 25.60 x 2.40 cms
Product Classification:
Painting & paintingsIndividual artists, art monographs
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The first survey of Joe Overstreet, abstract painter of the Black Arts Movement and forecaster of Afrofuturism
The first survey of Joe Overstreet, abstract painter of the Black Arts Movement and forecaster of Afrofuturism
This groundbreaking survey of abstract paintings by Joe Overstreet (19332019) recognizes his energizing presence in the Black Arts Movement and situates his socially engaged and spatially challenging work within todays crucial redefinition of the modernist canon. Overstreets Flight Patterns series, created from 1969 to 1973, is at the center of this book. These intensely colored acrylic-on-canvas works are hung with ropes tethering them to the ceiling, floor, wallsa vital exploration of geometries and free-form installation. In addition, the book includes new studies of Overstreets shaped canvas constructions of the 1960s and his mammoth Facing the Door of No Return works, quickly painted in a rush of inspiration after his 1992 trip to Senegal and encounter with the embarkation point of Africans shipped for enslavement in the New World. Essays on Overstreets shaped canvases, Flight Patterns, and the Facing the Door of No Return paintings accompany full-color photographs of the works, and a detailed chronology places Overstreets career in its time.
Distributed for the Menil Collection
Exhibition Schedule:
The Menil Collection, Houston, TX
(January 24July 13, 2025)
Mississippi Museum of Art, Jackson
(Fall 2025Winter 2026)
This groundbreaking survey of abstract paintings by Joe Overstreet (19332019) recognizes his energizing presence in the Black Arts Movement and situates his socially engaged and spatially challenging work within todays crucial redefinition of the modernist canon. Overstreets Flight Patterns series, created from 1969 to 1973, is at the center of this book. These intensely colored acrylic-on-canvas works are hung with ropes tethering them to the ceiling, floor, wallsa vital exploration of geometries and free-form installation. In addition, the book includes new studies of Overstreets shaped canvas constructions of the 1960s and his mammoth Facing the Door of No Return works, quickly painted in a rush of inspiration after his 1992 trip to Senegal and encounter with the embarkation point of Africans shipped for enslavement in the New World. Essays on Overstreets shaped canvases, Flight Patterns, and the Facing the Door of No Return paintings accompany full-color photographs of the works, and a detailed chronology places Overstreets career in its time.
Distributed for the Menil Collection
Exhibition Schedule:
The Menil Collection, Houston, TX
(January 24July 13, 2025)
Mississippi Museum of Art, Jackson
(Fall 2025Winter 2026)
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