No Space Hidden: The Spirit of African American Yard Work
- ISBN-10
- 1572333561
- ISBN-13
- 9781572333567
- Category
- African American aesthetics
- Pages
- 237
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2005
- Publisher
- Univ. of Tennessee Press
- Authors
- Grey Gundaker, Judith McWillie
Description
"Focusing primarily, though not exclusively, on the southeastern United States, the book examines works ranging from James Hampton's well-known Throne of the Third Heaven of the Nations Millennium General Assembly (now part of the Smithsonian collection), to several elaborately decorated yards and gardens, to smaller-scale acts of commemoration, protection, and witness. The authors show how the artful arrangement and adornment of everyday objects and plants express both the makers' own experiences and concerns and a number of rich and sustaining cultural traditions. They identify a "lexicon" of material signs that are frequently and consistently used in African American culture and art and then show how such elements have been used in various individual works and what they mean to the practitioners themselves."--BOOK JACKET.
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