Augusta Savage
The Shape of a Sculptor's Life
$41.66
- Hardcover
128 pages
- Release Date
12 July 2022
Summary
Augusta Savage was arguably the most influential American artist of the 1930s. A gifted sculptor, Savage was commissioned to create a portrait bust of W.E.B. Du Bois for the New York Public Library. She flourished during the Harlem Renaissance, and became a teacher to an entire generation of African American artists, including Jacob Lawrence, and would go on to be nationally recognized as one of the featured artists at the 1939 World’s Fair. She was the first-ever recorded Black gallerist. Af…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780316298025 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0316298026 |
| Author: | Marilyn Nelson |
| Publisher: | Little, Brown & Company |
| Imprint: | Little, Brown Young Readers |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 128 |
| Release Date: | 12 July 2022 |
| Weight: | 300g |
| Dimensions: | 238mm x 158mm x 18mm |
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Praise for Augusta Savage: * “A stunning portrait of artistic genius and Black history in America.” – Booklist, starred review
Praise for Augusta Savage: A Claudia Lewis Award Winner for Poetry by the Bank Street College of Education A BCALA Children & Young Adult Award Winner A Horn Book Fanfare Best Book of the Year A School Library Journal Best of the Year A Kirkus Best Book of the Year A Bank Street College Best Children’s Book of the Year A CCBC Children’s Choice A CBC Teacher Favorite Award Winner An Ohioana Book Award Finalist A Mississippi Magnolia Book Award Winner A Junior Library Guild Selection
* “A stunning portrait of artistic genius and Black history in America.”
–Booklist, starred review* “Nelson’s arresting poetry, which is accompanied by photographs of Savage’s work, dazzles as it experiments with form. … A lyrical biography from a master of the craft.”
–Kirkus Reviews, starred review* “A master poet breathes life and color into this portrait of a historically significant sculptor and her remarkable story.”–School Library Journal, starred reviewPraise for A Wreath for Emmett Till:
* “A towering achievement.”
–Kirkus Reviews, starred review* “A wonderful addition to young people’s literature on African American artists.”
–Horn Book, starred review* “In a rich biography in verse, Nelson (A is for Oboe) gives voice to the Black sculptor Augusta Savage (1892-1962), a key Harlem Renaissance figure.”
–Publishers Weekly, starred review* “This memorial to the lynched teen is in the Homeric tradition of poet-as-historian … This chosen formality brings distance and reflection to readers, but also calls attention to the horrifically ugly events.”
–School Library Journal, starred review“These poems are a powerful achievement that teens and adults will want to discuss together.”
–Booklist, ALA starred review“A moving elegy indeed.” –The BulletinAbout The Author
Marilyn Nelson
Marilyn Nelson is the author of many award-winning books, including Carver: A Life in Poems, which was a National Book Award finalist, a Newbery Honor Book, and a Coretta Scott King Honor Book and received the Flora Stieglitz Straus Award and the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award. She is also the author of A Wreath for Emmett Till, which garnered the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award, a Coretta Scott King Honor, a Printz Honor, and a Lee Bennett Hopkins Poetry Award Honor. She lives in Connecticut.
Tammi Lawson is the curator of the Art and Artifacts Division at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture and the steward of a collection of over fifteen thousand items that visually document the Black Diaspora. The Schomburg also houses the largest collection of art by Augusta Savage in a public institution. The New York Public Library recently awarded Lawson the 2020 Bertha Franklin Feder Award for Excellence in Librarianship.
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