Casting Shadows: Images from a New South Africa

South Africa is in the midst of dramatic transformation. For its communities of color - long cast in the role of shadow to the white population - this is a time when identities and borders are in the process of redefinition. In this body of photographic work, Edward West uses the metaphorical power of shadow to foreground the shifting visibility of South Africa's black population post apartheid.In focusing on the private moments of these newly empowered people within their own communities, West has created a complex, visually compelling study of the ways in which identity is inextricable linked to environment. With the authenticity of full frame street photography, the images reveal moments in which the gesture - of people, place and shadow - becomes an essential way of knowing.This work bears testimony that there is much to be found in the shadow - if we are willing to enter the darkness.

Arts & Photography

West, Edward

King-Hammond, Leslie

Individual Artists

Univ of Michigan Museum of Art

Edward West uses the metaphorical power of shadow to foreground the shifting visibility of South Africa's black population post apartheid. From 1997-1999, he traveled in South Africa to photograph the country's townships, squatter camps, and locations during this historic time of transition. In focusing on the private moments of these newly empowered people within their own communities, West has created a complex, visually compelling study of the ways in which identity is inextricably linked to environment. Utilizing the medium of photography in large scale color Giclee prints, West has developed a rich visual language built on the shadow metaphor that at once moves us and grounds us.

The last pre-Islamic Persian Empire, ruled by the Sasanian Dynasty from AD 224 to AD 651.

Sasanian Silver: Late Antique and Early Medieval Arts of Luxury from Iran

Grabar, Oleg

The University of Michigan Museum of Art, 1980. PAPERBACK.1980; published in conjunction with an exhibit 2 November 1979 - 6 January 1980; with the collaboration of: Jean-Paul Bouillon, Professor Art History University of Clermont-Ferrand & Dennis Costanza, Phylis Floyd, Laurence Lyon, Matthew Rohn, Jacquelyn Baas Slee, Inga Christine Swenson. tight binding; 8vo - over 7 3/4" - 9 3/4" Tall; 220 pages includes: Preface by Bret Waller. Chronology. Essay: The Crisis of Impressionism by Joel Issacson, Guest Curator. Includes: Felix & Marie Braquemond, Caillebotte, Cals, Cassatt, Degas, Forain, Gauguin, Guillaumin, Lebourg, Levert, Monet, Morisot, Piette, Pissarro, JF & MJ Raffaelli, Renoir, Rouart, Sisley, Somm, Tillot, Vidal, Vignon, Zandomeneghi. (MR)

The Crisis of Impressionism 1878-1882

Issacson, Joel

<p>extremely rare,very good condition</p>

Meeting of Two Worlds: The Crusades and the Mediterranean Context

History

Bornstein, Christine Verzar

Soucek, Priscilla

Europe

Federal Art Project: American Prints from the 1930s : In the Collection of the University of Michigan Museum of Art

University of Michigan. Museum of Art.

Other Media

This catalogue to accompany a traveling exhibition explores the relationship of Mangold's works on paper to her paintings, and places the much-admired artist within the context of the major art movements of the past two decades. It also includes impressions of all her relief intaglios and lithographic prints, and over 40 of her drawings in pastel, watercolor, acrylic, and gouache. 9.75x8.25". Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

Sylvia Plimack Mangold: Works on Paper 1968-1991 : With a Catalogue Raisonne of the Prints

Faberman, Hilarie

D´Oench, Ellen G.

<p>Presents three essays and 12 color plates published to accompany a 1998 exhibition at the University of Michigan Museum of Art. The exhibition and text focus on the period of Monet's career which he spent at Vetheuil, a small town along the Seine, from 1878 to 1881. The essays examine: love, money, and Monet's debacle paintings of 1880; the site and subject of Monet's Vetheuil paintings; and the marketing of Monet in the context of the exhibition at La Vie Moderne. Contains a number of b&amp;w drawings and a few color reproductions in addition to the color plates. Includes extensive notes and a bibliography, but no subject index. Distributed by U. of Washington Press. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.</p>

Monet at Vétheuil: The Turning Point

Dallas Museum of Art

Minneapolis Institute Of Arts

Dixon, Annette

McNamara, Carole

Painting

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