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KERRY JAMES MARSHALL (1955 - )
Three issues of
Rhythm Mastr
.
Five double-sided color photolithographs on folded newsprint paper, 1999-2000. Each 429x572
mm; 17x22
1
/
2
inches (sheet).
Includes:
Rythm Mastr: Every Beat of My Heart
*
Rythm Mastr: Bulletin!
*
Rythm Mastr:Tower of Power
.
Kerry James Marshall was selected to exhibit in the 1999/2000 Carnegie International, the oldest
North American exhibition of contemporary art from around the world. Marshall created an
installation for the exhibition entitled
RYTHM MASTR
, in which he covered the glass of the backlit
vitrines in the Treasure Room at the Carnegie Museum of Art with these comics.
Rythm Mastr
is a
story of love, revenge, and redemption in the inner city that features African-American superheroes
based on traditional African sculpture and stories. The comics were started by Marshall after he
realized that, even though African-American children are as interested in comics and superheroes
as other children, there had not been a comic strip with independent black superheroes. Grynsztejn
pp. 64-65, 141.
[3,000/5,000]