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《学校图书馆杂志》(School Library Journal)书评
Gr 4-7-The lives and work of two African-American artists are briefly explored in these heavily illustrated books. Horace Pippin, a painter, was born in Pennsylvania in 1888. Despite a career-threatening wound suffered during World War I, he continued to create and ultimately received some recognition during his lifetime for his distinctive, bold, folk-art style paintings and burnt-wood panels. Harriet Powers, a quilter, was born a slave in Georgia in 1837. Though nothing is known of her early life, census records, slave narratives, archival photographs, and the writings of Jennie Smith (a white art teacher who purchased Powers's Bible story quilt) are drawn on for background information. Both titles provide appropriate, well-labeled, full-color, often full-page reproductions of the artists' works, as well as related illustrative material. A sampling of the sources consulted are noted, but not specifically cited. Altogether, these books provide readable, concise introductions to two African-American artists and to some of the historical influences on their work.-Maria B. Salvadore, District of Columbia Public Library (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
《儿童读物杂志》(Horn Book)书评
The intelligent, respectfully written biographies are lavishly illustrated with well-captioned, full-color reproductions of the artwork discussed. Pippin became famous for his folk-art war paintings, while Powers's reputation rests upon her two story quilts, in which she used an appliqué technique to tell stories from the Bible. Accessible works that discuss artists little known to young people. Bib., ind. From HORN BOOK 1993, (c) Copyright 2010. The Horn Book, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
《书目》(Booklist)书评
Gr. 5-7. The first two titles in a new African-American Artist and Artisans series combine biography, history, and art. Lyons doesn't write here with the compelling drama of her Sorrow's Kitchen: The Life and Folklore of Zora Neale Hurston (1990), especially when she's describing the external events of her subjects' lives. The excitement is about the work of these two great artists, and Lyons' sensitive commentary will draw middle-grade readers to look closely at the paintings and photographs that are reproduced in splendid color on nearly every page.Horace Pippin was a self-taught painter whose work reflects his personal story. Haunted by his experience as a soldier in World War I, he painted scenes from the trenches years after he returned. "I can never forget suffering, and I will never forget sunset," he wrote, and Lyons shows that his lonely feelings were also expressed in pictures set close to home. The paintings are haunting, and Lyons speaks about them with warm appreciation. The captions tell where each picture is on display today.Harriet Powers learned quilting in her southern slave community, and then, in the years after Emancipation, she sewed two great story quilts that hang today in the Smithsonian and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Little is known of Powers' personal life, and the writing is dull when Lyons focuses on the biography. What grabs you here is the social history--what the quilts meant to the women who made them, how slaves forbidden to read and write told stories, how they mixed Bible stories with folklore, and how Powers sewed her stories and their harmonies into her work. The quilts, whole and in part, are shown in glowing color and detail, and Lyons is lyrical in describing their artistry. ~--Hazel Rochman