| International Standard Book Number |
9781733664769
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| International Standard Book Number |
1733664769
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| Personal Name |
Saar, Betye. artist.
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| Title Statement |
Betye Saar : Black doll blues.
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| Production, Publication, Distribution, Manufacture, and Copyright Notice |
Los Angeles, California : Roberts Projects, 2022.
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| Physical Description |
221 pages : illustrations ; 32 cm.
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| General Note |
Published on the occasion of an exhibition at Roberts Projects, Culver City, California, September 18-November 6, 2022.
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| Formatted Contents Note |
Foreword / Julie Roberts -- Section I: Sketchbooks -- Black dolls in vibrant color / Katherine Jentleson -- Section II: Assemblage and collage -- Section III: Black doll collection -- Interview with Betye Saar / Maddy Inez Leeser -- Section IV: Watercolors -- Soft power: Betye Saar's watercolor dolls / Rachel Federman -- Section V: Exhibition -- List of Black doll collection.
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| Summary, Etc. |
This volume features new watercolor works on paper and assemblages by Betye Saar (born 1926) that incorporate the artist's personal collection of Black dolls. These watercolors showcase the artist's experimentation with vivid color and layered techniques, and her new interest in flat shapes. While Saar has previously used painting in her mixed-media collages, this is the first publication to focus on her watercolor works on paper. "Watercolor is something that children use, so I decided, maybe I'll paint something about children, maybe I'll paint the dolls," Saar says. Referencing the underrepresented history of Black dolls through Saar's artistic lens, this catalog distills several intersecting themes, imagery and objects in Saar's oeuvre, highlighting her prominent usage and reinvention of Black imagery. It contains 90 color images, including early assemblage works that feature Black dolls, such as Gris-Gris Box (1972) and Mti (1973), plus early sketchbooks and a curated selection of Saar's Black doll collection. It also includes original essays by Rachel Federman, Associate Curator of Modern and Contemporary Drawings at the Morgan Library & Museum, and Katherine Jentleson, Merrie and Dan Boone Curator of Folk and Self-Taught Art at the High Museum of Art, and an interview with the artist by her granddaughter, Maddy Inez Leeser.
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| Subject-Personal Name |
Saar, Betye Exhibitions.
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| Subject-Personal Name |
Saar, Betye Interviews.
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| Subject-Personal Name |
Saar, Betye Criticism and interpretation.
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| Subject-Personal Name |
Saar, Betye Art collections.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Watercolor painting 21st century.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Black dolls.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Dolls in art Exhibitions.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Black people in art.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
African American art 21st century Exhibitions.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
African American women artists California Exhibitions.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
African American artists California Exhibitions.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Women artists California Exhibitions.
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Exhibition catalogs.
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| Added Entry, Personal Name |
Jentleson, Katherine. writer of supplementary textual content.
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| Added Entry, Personal Name |
Federman, Rachel. writer of supplementary textual content.
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| Added Entry, Personal Name |
Leeser, Maddy Inez. interviewer.
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| Added Entry, Corporate Name |
Roberts Projects (Gallery) host institution.
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