Joseph E. Yoakum

《约瑟夫约阿库姆 我所看到的》

出版社 ‏ : ‎ Art Institute of Chicago (2021年7月27日)

语言 ‏ : ‎ 英语

精装 ‏ : ‎ 252页

ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0300257481

ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0300257489

商品重量 ‏ : ‎ 666 g

尺寸 ‏ : ‎ 22.86 x 30.48 cm

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内容简介

约瑟夫-埃尔默-尤阿库姆的大部分故事来自于艺术家本人--几乎神奇得让人不敢相信。在年轻的时候，尤库姆（1891-1972）曾随许多马戏团走遍全球；后来在第一次世界大战期间，他在一个被隔离的非战斗团中服役，然后定居在芝加哥。在那里，他受到一个梦想的启发，在71岁时开始了他的艺术生涯，在十年间创作了大约两千幅画。是什么推动了他的创作过程，他将其描述为 "精神的展开"？本书深入探讨了尤阿库姆与芝加哥幻想家建立的友谊，这确保了他在艺术史上的地位，探讨了可能帮助他应对种族分裂的城市的宗教观，并研究了他与非裔美国人和美国原住民身份的复杂关系。该书通过数百幅他的梦幻般的绘画作品的精美彩色复制品，对这位艺术家的作品进行了最全面的研究，阐明了他生动和富有想象力的创造力，并为他的非凡传记提供了定义和维度。

Much of Joseph Elmer Yoakum’s story comes from the artist himself—and is almost too fantastic to believe. At a young age, Yoakum (1891–1972) traveled the globe with numerous circuses; he later served in a segregated noncombat regiment during World War I before settling in Chicago. There, inspired by a dream, he began his artistic career at age seventy-one, producing some two thousand drawings over a decade. How did Yoakum gain representation in major museum collections in Chicago and New York? What fueled his process, which he described as a “spiritual unfoldment”? This volume delves into the friendships Yoakum forged with the Chicago Imagists that secured his place in art history, explores the religious outlook that may have helped him cope with a racially fractured city, and examines his complicated relationship to African American and Native American identities. With hundreds of beautiful color reproductions of his dreamlike drawings, it offers the most comprehensive study of the artist’s work, illuminating his vivid and imaginative creativity and giving definition and dimension to his remarkable biography.