Spirit of the Delta : The Art of Carolyn Norris /
Raised in West Virginia, self-taught artist Carolyn Norris (b. 1948) moved as a young woman of twenty-one to Cleveland, Mississippi, a quintessential Delta railroad town on the famous blues Highway 61. To create one of her first paintings, she tore the wooden back off a dresser to use as a canvas. S...
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Format: | Électronique eBook |
Langue: | Inglés |
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Jackson :
University Press of Mississippi,
2011.
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Collection: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
Résumé: | Raised in West Virginia, self-taught artist Carolyn Norris (b. 1948) moved as a young woman of twenty-one to Cleveland, Mississippi, a quintessential Delta railroad town on the famous blues Highway 61. To create one of her first paintings, she tore the wooden back off a dresser to use as a canvas. She painted with available house paint and completed the painting with face makeup. Thus began the realization of a passionate need to paint. Eventually, Norris came to serve as the visual griot of Cleveland. She has used a variety of media, painting on canvas, wood, paper, cardboard, glass, plates. |
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Description matérielle: | 1 online resource (128 pages): illustrations (chiefly color) |
ISBN: | 9781604739930 |