I haven't been back to Atlanta for a long time. I knew the major collector of 'folk art' when I lived there; I wrote a critical article for Art Papers on collecting, deconstructing the field/terminology which was and I think still is, highly problematic. But I haven't kept up with the city's culture unfortunately...
- Alan On Sat, 2 Apr 2011, Michael Szpakowski wrote: > Yeah I saw a show included his work at the High Museum of Art in Atlanta > about ten years ago. Did the museum used to have a satellite section with > photography on one floor and "folk art" on the other? I do remember an > afternoon of epiphany with work by Traylor and others in one room and > discovering for the first time the photographs of Harry Callahan in another.. > michael > > --- On Sat, 4/2/11, Alan Sondheim <sondh...@panix.com> wrote: > >> From: Alan Sondheim <sondh...@panix.com> >> Subject: Re: [NetBehaviour] Bill Traylor and Alberta Hunter >> To: "NetBehaviour for networked distributed creativity" >> <netbehaviour@netbehaviour.org> >> Date: Saturday, April 2, 2011, 6:50 AM >> >> I've seen a lot of his work in the South - brilliant - >> >> On Fri, 1 Apr 2011, Fung-Lin Hall wrote: >> >>> Bill Traylor was born a slave in 1854; after a >> lifetime as a cotton >>> laborer, destitute and living on a Montgomery, >> Alabama, sidewalk, >>> he began drawing. He was 83, and sold his work for >> nickels. >>> http://www.mutanteggplant.com/vitro-nasu/2011/04/01/bill-traylor-alberta-hunter/ >>> >>> Fung Lin Hall >>> http://www.mutanteggplant.com/vitro-nasu/ >>> http://www.mutanteggplant.com/ >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> NetBehaviour mailing list >>> NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org >>> http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour >>> >>> >> >> >> == >> email archive: http://sondheim.rupamsunyata.org/ >> webpage http://www.alansondheim.org >> music archive: http://www.espdisk.com/alansondheim/ >> current text http://www.alansondheim.org/qy.txt >> == >> _______________________________________________ >> NetBehaviour mailing list >> NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org >> http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour >> > _______________________________________________ > NetBehaviour mailing list > NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org > http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour > > == email archive: http://sondheim.rupamsunyata.org/ webpage http://www.alansondheim.org music archive: http://www.espdisk.com/alansondheim/ current text http://www.alansondheim.org/qy.txt == _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
