Sam Gilliam av Ishmael Reed, Mary Schmidt Campbell, Andria Hickey

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<P><B> The definitive monograph of Sam Gilliam one of the great innovators in post-war American painting </B></P><P> An African American artist in the nation¿s capital at the height of the Civil Rights movement, Sam Gilliam blazed a trail with his singular artistic vision. Gilliam emerged from the Washington, DC art scene in the mid 1960s with works that disrupted established artistic norms and styles. </P><P> Relentlessly experimental and inspired by the improvisatory ethos of jazz, Gilliam¿s lyrical abstractions took on an increasing variety of forms, moods, and materials. </P><P>This book, made in close collaboration with the Sam Gilliam Foundation, is the first to comprehensively survey the breadth of his extraordinary career, and features never-before-seen archival materials an insightful newly commissioned texts that shine light on the artist, his life, and his work, together with examples of Gilliam''s work spanning five decades.</P>