Textured Abstractions: Howardena Pindell's Cut & Sewn Paintings
submitted by Marvin's Underground Evening Lectures
on 10/06/18
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Sarah Cowan discusses the cut and sewn paintings of 1970s artist Howardena Pindell in the context of aesthetic debates engendered by the Black Arts Movement, the women's art movement and shifts in modernist criticism. Pindell's paintings used texture as a strategy for conveying her affinities for African culture, administrative and craft labor, feminine adornment and modernist art. Speaker Biography: Sarah Cowan is 2017-2018 Smithsonian Fellow in Residence. For transcript and more information, visit www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=8325
