ISBN-13: 978-1838663933
A landmark survey of Sam Gilliam, among the most inventive painters of the post-war era. Coming of age as an African American artist in Washington, DC during the Civil Rights years, Gilliam broke from convention to pursue a vision entirely his own. By the mid-1960s he had emerged from the capital's art scene with work that unsettled the prevailing styles of the day.
His abstractions were restless and searching, shaped by a love of jazz and its spirit of improvisation, and they grew ever more varied in form, mood, and material as his career unfolded.
Produced in close partnership with the Sam Gilliam Foundation, this is the first book to chart the full arc of Gilliam's remarkable five-decade career. Alongside works drawn from across his lifetime, it gathers archival material never published before and a series of newly commissioned essays that bring fresh perspective to the artist, his life, and his practice.
