The Paintings And Drawings Of Clarence Major

Author : Clarence Major
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 149682069X
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Paintings and Drawings of Clarence Major written by Clarence Major and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2019-02-01 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the first volume to collect the paintings and drawings of Clarence Major, readers are offered six decades of unique, colorful, and compelling canvases and works on paper—works of singular beauty and social relevance. These works represent Major’s personal painterly journey of passionate commitment to art. This generous selection of more than 150 paintings and drawings shows us the melding of rich ideas and fertile images, the braiding of imagination and motif. With their pleasing arrangement of elements, the works come vividly to life. Major often juxtaposes a decorative scheme with his own unique choice of color combinations, reinforced with rigorous brushstrokes that release chromatic energy. The paintings complement and challenge the great traditions of Realism, Impressionism, and Expressionism. Major is primarily a figurative and landscape painter. Here we find landscapes of singular vitality, rich in color and design, dramatic landscapes, and cityscapes representing, among other things, Major’s extensive travels in America and Europe. We are also treated to Major’s signature figurative work. In these paintings, he ventures fearlessly into familiar yet unexpected areas of richness. Also included is an introductory essay, “The Education of a Painter,” written by the artist, which further sheds light on and helps to lay a biographical, social, and historical foundation for this essential volume, reflecting a lifetime of serious commitment to painting at its best.

Author : Keith E. Byerman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780820349824
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Art and Life of Clarence Major written by Keith E. Byerman and published by . This book was released on 2016-05-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Clarence Major is an award-winning painter, fiction writer, and poet-as well as an essayist, editor, anthologist, lexicographer, and memoirist. He has been part of twenty-eight group exhibitions, has had fifteen one-man shows, and has published fourteen collections of poetry and nine works of fiction. The author traces Major's life and career from his complex family history in Georgia through his encounters with important literary and artistic figures in Chicago and New York to his present status as a respected writer, artist, teacher, and scholar living in California.

Author : Clarence Major
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0525508090
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dirty Bird Blues written by Clarence Major and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2022-02-08 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A quietly influential force in African American literature and art, Clarence Major makes his Penguin Classics debut with the twenty-fifth-anniversary edition of Dirty Bird Blues The PRH Audio book of Dirty Bird Blues by Clarence Major won a 2022 EARPHONE AWARD. Narrated by Dion Graham. A Penguin Classic Set in post-World War II Chicago and Omaha, the novel features Manfred Banks, a young, harmonica-blowing blues singer who is always writing music in his head. Torn between his friendships with fellow musicians and nightclub life and his responsibilities to his wife and child, along with the pressures of dealing with a racist America that assaults him at every turn, Manfred seeks easy answers in "Dirty Bird" (Old Crow whiskey) and in moving on. He moves to Omaha with hopes of better opportunities as a blue-collar worker, but the blues in his soul and the dreams in his mind keep bringing him back to face himself. After a nightmarish descent into his own depths, Manfred emerges with fresh awareness and possibility. Through Manfred, we witness and experience the process by which modern American English has been vitalized and strengthened by the poetry and the poignancy of the African-American experience. As Manfred struggles with the oppressive constraints of society and his private turmoil, his rich inner voice resonates with the blues.

Author : Clarence Major
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
ISBN 13 : 1573661430
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book My Amputations written by Clarence Major and published by University of Alabama Press. This book was released on 2008-01-07 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This novel is about a man pursued by his shadow. Its protagonist is either a desperate ex-con who has become convinced that he is an important American novelist or a desperate American novelist who has become convinced that he, and most of what passes for literary life on three continents, is a con.

Author : Keith Eldon Byerman
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 0820330558
Total Pages : 301 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Art and Life of Clarence Major written by Keith Eldon Byerman and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Clarence Major is an award-winning painter, fiction writer, and poet-as well as an essayist, editor, anthologist, lexicographer, and memoirist. He has been part of twenty-eight group exhibitions, has had fifteen one-man shows, and has published fourteen collections of poetry and nine works of fiction. The author traces Major's life and career from his complex family history in Georgia through his encounters with important literary and artistic figures in Chicago and New York to his present status as a respected writer, artist, teacher, and scholar living in California.

Author : Clarence Major
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reflex and Bone Structure written by Clarence Major and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Weaves a mystery in which imagination and fiction become tangled with reality.

Author : Clarence Major
Publisher : UPNE
ISBN 13 : 9781555533670
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book All-night Visitors written by Clarence Major and published by UPNE. This book was released on 1998 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "All-Night Visitors is devoted to lush description. Mr. Major is unquestionably a sincere and passionate writer." -- New York Times

Author : Clarence Major
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
ISBN 13 : 0810144271
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Thunderclouds in the Forecast written by Clarence Major and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 2021-10-15 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thunderclouds in the Forecast traverses the linked histories of two friends—one Black, the other white—who grew up wards of the state in New York. It’s April 1976 and Ray is taking Amtrak to San Francisco to reconnect with Scotty, his oldest friend, whom he met in a shelter for abandoned children. While Ray has embraced the stable tedium of steady employment, Scotty’s life has been erratic, a trail of short-lived affairs and dead-end jobs. Maybe Ray, who’s just won the lottery, is finally in a position to help him. When Ray’s train is delayed in Lorena, a Gold Rush outpost turned college town, he meets Alice. Together they embark on a romance that tempts him to stay. By the time Ray arrives in San Francisco, Scotty has abandoned his bartending job, his rented room, and his scant belongings and skipped town with a married woman from Lorena. Now Ray has more than one reason to return. A preeminent American writer who thrives on reinvention, Major returns with an unforgettable exploration of life on the brink of sweeping change. With spare prose and subtle poignancy, Thunderclouds in the Forecast probes love, loyalty, and belonging. As Toni Morrison wrote, “Clarence Major has a remarkable mind and the talent to match.”

Author : Clarence Major
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781945665288
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Lurking Place written by Clarence Major and published by . This book was released on 2021-06 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An engaging new novel by African-American literary icon Clarence Major reveals personal and political parallels between the past and present.

Author : Clarence Major
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Necessary Distance written by Clarence Major and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author, a 1999 National Book Award finalist, presents a collection of critical essays, articles, and reviews.