Harmonia Rosales: Master Narrative
This richly illustrated catalogue accompanies Harmonia Rosales: Master Narrative, the artist’s first major touring exhibition, presented at the Memphis Brooks Museum of Art. Featuring over twenty paintings and a monumental sculptural installation, this publication is also the first scholarly catalogue devoted to the work of contemporary Afro-Cuban American artist Harmonia Rosales.
Los Angeles–based Rosales is known for reframing the canon of art history through a twenty-first-century Afro-Cuban American perspective. Her work draws from West African Yorùbá religion, Greek mythology, and Christianity, seamlessly interwoven with the visual language and techniques of the European Renaissance. Through this synthesis, Rosales constructs powerful narratives of creation, tragedy, survival, and transcendence, centering the beauty, resilience, and strength of Black people—particularly women.
The catalogue includes a comprehensive selection of works from the exhibition, a biography of the artist, and new essays by leading scholars that explore storytelling and narrative, gender and beauty, and questions of race and diaspora.
Details:
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Print length: 96 pages
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Language: English
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Publisher: Paul Holberton Publishing
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Publication date: June 5, 2023
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Dimensions: 7.75 x 0.5 x 9.75 inches
