KERRY JAMES MARSHALL (1955 - ) Three issues of Rythm Mastr.
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KERRY JAMES MARSHALL (1955 - )
Three issues of Rythm Mastr.
Ten double-sided color photolithographs on folded newsprint paper, 1999-2000. Each 429x572 mm; 17x22½ inches (sheet).
Includes: Rythm Mastr: Every Beat of My Heart * Rythm Mastr: Bulletin! * Rythm Mastr: Tower of Power.
WITH--a group of nine folded newsprint paper constructions, 1999-2000. Largest 165x330 mm; 6½x13 inches.
Exhibited: The Big Show, The NICC (New International Cultural Center), Antwerp, April 15 – June 3, 2001.
Kerry James Marshall was selected to exhibit in the 1999/2000 Carnegie International, the oldest North American exhibition of international contemporary art. Marshall created an installation for the exhibition entitled Rythm Mastr, in which he covered the glass of the backlit vitrines in the Treasure Room at the Carnegie Museum of Art with these comics. Rythm Mastr is a story of love, revenge, and redemption in the inner city that features African American superheroes based on traditional African sculpture and stories. The comics were started by Marshall after he realized he never seen a comic strip with independent Black superheroes. Grynsztejn pp. 64-65, 141.
Three issues of Rythm Mastr.
Ten double-sided color photolithographs on folded newsprint paper, 1999-2000. Each 429x572 mm; 17x22½ inches (sheet).
Includes: Rythm Mastr: Every Beat of My Heart * Rythm Mastr: Bulletin! * Rythm Mastr: Tower of Power.
WITH--a group of nine folded newsprint paper constructions, 1999-2000. Largest 165x330 mm; 6½x13 inches.
Exhibited: The Big Show, The NICC (New International Cultural Center), Antwerp, April 15 – June 3, 2001.
Kerry James Marshall was selected to exhibit in the 1999/2000 Carnegie International, the oldest North American exhibition of international contemporary art. Marshall created an installation for the exhibition entitled Rythm Mastr, in which he covered the glass of the backlit vitrines in the Treasure Room at the Carnegie Museum of Art with these comics. Rythm Mastr is a story of love, revenge, and redemption in the inner city that features African American superheroes based on traditional African sculpture and stories. The comics were started by Marshall after he realized he never seen a comic strip with independent Black superheroes. Grynsztejn pp. 64-65, 141.
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KERRY JAMES MARSHALL (1955 - ) Three issues of Rythm Mastr.
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