{"product_id":"really-free-the-radical-art-of-nellie-mae-rowe-9781636810287","title":"Really Free: The Radical Art of Nellie Mae Rowe","description":"\u003cp\u003eAn unprecedented look at Nellie Mae Rowes art as a radical act of self-expression and liberation in the post-civil rights-era South Published with High Museum of Art.  A New York Times critics pick  Best Art Books 2021  During the last 15 years of her life  Nellie Mae Rowe lived on Paces Ferry Road  a major thoroughfare in Vinings  Georgia  and welcomed visitors to her Playhouse  which she decorated with found-object installations  handmade dolls  chewing-gum sculptures and hundreds of drawings. Rowe created her first works as a child in rural Fayetteville  Georgia  but only found the time and space to reclaim her artistic practice in the late 1960s  following the deaths of her second husband and her longtime employer.  This book offers an unprecedented view of how Rowe cultivated her drawing practice late in life  starting with colorful and at times simple sketches on found materials and moving toward her most celebrated  highly complex compositions on paper. Through photographs and reconstructions of her Playhouse created for an experimental documentary on her life  this publication is also the first to juxtapose her drawings with her art environment.  Nellie Mae Rowe (190082) grew up in rural Fayetteville  Georgia. When her Playhouse became an Atlanta attraction  she began to exhibit her art outside of her home  beginning with Missing Pieces: Georgia Folk Art  17701976  a traveling exhibition that brought attention to several Southern self-taught artists  including Rowe and Howard Finster. In 1982  the year she died  Rowes work received a new level of acclaim  as she was honored in a solo exhibition at Spelman College and included as one of three women artists in the Corcoran Gallery of Arts landmark exhibition .\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45666343157813,"sku":"ByrdShop_1636810284","price":70.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9781636810287.jpg?v=1782428870","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/really-free-the-radical-art-of-nellie-mae-rowe-9781636810287","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}