Primitive: The Art and Life of Horace H. Pippin

Primitive: The Art and Life of Horace H. Pippin

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A lyrical and biographical reflection on the art and life of Horace H. Pippin—the best-known African American artist of his time—Primitive offers a searching critique of the condescension to African American folk art as supposedly “primitive,” and it also critiques the underestimation of African American life and imagination in the broader American consciousness. Award-winning poet Janice N. Harrington connects readers to this fascinating, odds-defying artist, all while underscoring the human craving for artistic expression. “The Speller” Writing with your rigid shoulder, with the weakerHand, two years after the Great War, you tryto shape words that you could not spell, soundingThem out—raineing, playen, bob wir, infinze—rollingthem on your tongue like Demonsthenes’ stones,leaden shot spat out at shying targets. In a notebookyou bend the language:hell place, nomansland—and make in inkUncertain places—Leeon, Oregon, Caintenerzair,Moperycort. But words are poor gazetteers,Compasses for t

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