On My Way: The Arts of Sarah Albritton Contributor(s): Roach, Susan (Author) |
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ISBN: 1578061148 ISBN-13: 9781578061143 Publisher: University Press of Mississippi OUR PRICE: $24.75 Product Type: Paperback Published: October 1998 Annotation: This collection of her first touring exhibition includes forty-nine paintings in full color accompanied by Albritton's stories as transcribed by folklorist Susan Roach. While other self-trained women artists celebrate the glories of the past, there is a stark reality to Albritton's work. Her people are still plowing in the near dark of evening. Her happy children are swimming in polluted streams. There are angels and lightning in her skies. And when she tells her stories, they are direct but never maudlin-"l was born in hell, " she says. "I grew up in hell." |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Art | Folk & Outsider Art - Art | American - African American - Biography & Autobiography | Artists, Architects, Photographers |
Dewey: 759.13 |
LCCN: 98067413 |
Physical Information: 0.38" H x 8.54" W x 11.07" (1.13 lbs) 96 pages |
Themes: - Chronological Period - 20th Century - Cultural Region - Deep South - Cultural Region - Gulf Coast - Cultural Region - Southeast U.S. - Cultural Region - South - Ethnic Orientation - African American - Geographic Orientation - Louisiana - Sex & Gender - Feminine |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: Growing up as an African American in north Louisiana in the 1930s and 1940s, Sarah Albritton managed to take care of herself in her own way. On her journey away from the pain of poverty, abuse, and racism she experienced, Sarah Albritton has expressed herself in a variety of artistic modes: food preparation, restaurant decor, yard art, Christmas decorations, autobiographical prose and poetry, and most recently, narrative combined with paintings. Sarah Albritton is a Ruston, Louisiana, restauranteur and owner of Sarah's Kitchen. Born in Arcadia in 1936, she has devoted much of her life to the culinary arts and has conducted cooking demonstrations for the Louisiana World Exposition and the Smithsonian Festival of American Folklife. |