Celeste-Marie Bernier is Professor of African American Studies at the University of Nottingham, England. She is the author of Characters of Blood: Black Heroism in the Transatlantic Imagination and African American Visual Arts: From Slavery to the Present.
"Celeste-Marie Bernier has written a sweeping account of the art,
life, and time of Horace Pippin, one that brings unprecedented
color to and a clear understanding of an under-represented American
artist. The voluminous research in Suffering and
Sunset takes the reader beyond the realm of art to establish a
broad historical base that includes issues of race and identity in
American culture. The book gives an unbiased biographical account
of the artist’s everyday activities, much of which is drawn from
Pippin’s war diary and his day-to-day transactions with his art
dealer. Salient among Bernier’s observations about Pippin’s art and
his long journey as a World War I soldier in Europe are the
extraordinary experiences he endured in the pursuit of his
artistry, some of which were purely racist in nature. Relying
heavily on Pippin’s own personal account of his life as an artist,
Bernier paints an indelible word picture of the pain, struggle, and
triumph of one of the most important American artists of the
twentieth century."
—David C. Driskell, Distinguished University Professor of Art,
Emeritus, University of Maryland, College Park
“Bernier painstakingly examines Pippin’s manuscripts, paintings,
and sketches to show how his meager written legacy casts revealing
light on his other works…. The author analyzes Pippin’s work in
exhaustive…detail, comparing the scant information of his wartime
experience with the stark monotones in his paintings…. [The]
in-depth analyses [are] filled with learned
conjecture.” —Kirkus Reviews
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