The Seventh Octave : The Early Writings of Saul Stacy Williams

The Seventh Octave : The Early Writings of Saul Stacy Williams

Danny Simmons employs both his skills as an artist and a writer to present this attractive book entitled â€œ I DREAMED MY PEOPLE Were Calling But I Couldnâ€™t FIND MY WAY Home.The bright colors of his collages provide a contrast to the relentlessly grim portrayals of a society where people are jailed at birth. He is able to create beauty from rubbish.This is no dinner party on Marthaâ€™s Vineyard.â€Cold ramble down abandoned/â€¦stray dogs howling in bitter/winter huddled six deep and hungry,or I/am a gaping wound waiting for its/daily does of salt. No French Impressionist picnic scenes . While European Museums are packed with paintings overburdened with Christian themes, Simmons knows that the religions that Africans brought to this hemisphere, thought to have been crushed, survive. But thereâ€™s a tendency when examining the work of a black artist to confine their reach to the basic and polemical,even though the work under examination might express a wide range of human emotions. The mainstream asks of the black artist, â€œWhat are you going to do to us? Do you like us? What do those drums mean?â€Simmons work can be political, but it can also be very private. â€œI return/ to empty/street corners/to rail at the/ scourge who/gnaws at the bones of/my past. Though African-American culture is Simmonsâ€™ home base, one can detect variety of influences upon his work. Simmons writes:â€â€¦I swagger/in front of the/Easel trying to capture/the spirit of the divine.â€ He has done that. The paintings are eye grabbing, beautiful. The texts provide a striking compliment to them. -from the foreword by Ishmael Reed
Country USA
Brand Katio Kadio
Manufacturer Moore Black Pr
Binding Paperback
UPCs 000965830810
EANs 9780965830812
ReleaseDate 0000-00-00

Country	USA
Brand	Katio Kadio
Manufacturer	Moore Black Pr
Binding	Paperback
UPCs	000965830810
EANs	9780965830812
ReleaseDate	0000-00-00

The Seventh Octave : The Early Writings of Saul Stacy Williams

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