Painting is a Supreme Fiction: Writings by Jesse Murry, 1980–1993

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Author: Murry, JesseThis unprecedented collection compiles the writings of artist and poet Jesse Murry, an extraordinary thinker who believed in the capacity of painting to hold th e complexity of human meaning. This book is a portrait of an original mind who sought to unite the histories of Romantic landscape painting with the realities of Black experience. This title presents Jesse Murry in his own words, offering intimate access a remarkable figure.Painting Is a Supreme Fiction brings together Murry’s published art criticism with previously unpublished philosophical writing and poetry from 1980 to his tragic death from AIDS-related illness at the age of 44. In addition to Murry’s writings, this volume also includes reproductions of selected paintings; excerpts from a a pair of panel discussions on art criticism and expressionism that took place in 1980; as well as transcriptions of two of the artist's notebooks, in which the spatialisation of the words across the page approaches the condition of thought. ISBN 9781940190303. Soberscove Press. pb. 312 pages. 15 colour ills. 11 b/w ills. 16.5 x 20.3 cm.available to order Show more