Add this copy of Dusti Bongé: Art and Life to cart. $138.25, very good condition, Sold by Mullen Books, Inc. ABAA / ILAB rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Marietta, PA, UNITED STATES, published 2019 by Dusti Bonge Art Foundation.
Edition:
2019, University Press of Mississippi/Dusti Bonge Art Foundation
Publisher:
University Press of Mississippi/Dusti Bonge Art Foundation
Published:
2019
Language:
English
Alibris ID:
18156742139
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Seller's Description:
VG+/VG+: A book in excellent condition. Has clean pages and tight binding. Appears as new. The dust jacket is also in great condition. A chocolate-colored casebound book with the title debossed in yellow lettering. There is a matte pictorial dust jacket. The title is printed in white font across the cover and down a sage green spine. The front and back free and pasted end pages are a bright yellow. Pages: 1-349, (3). Profusely illustrated, with full-color, true-tone, and black-and-white images on almost every single page. The art of Dusti Bongé was influenced by her experiences in three distinctive American cities: Biloxi, Mississippi; New Orleans, Louisiana; and New York, New York. In developing her artistic practice in these vibrant urban settings, she portrayed a unique sense of place in her work. Born in Biloxi in 1903, she died there in 1993, living on the family property where she was raised. After graduating from Blue Mountain College in 1922, she moved to Chicago and became an actress, and then moved to New York to act on stage and in silent movies. She married artist Archie Bongé in 1928 and lived in New York until they moved to Biloxi in 1934 with Lyle. Following Archie's premature death in 1936, Dusti dedicated herself to working as an artist. Initially, she exhibited in New Orleans and Biloxi, and then in New York, where she became affiliated with the famed Betty Parsons Gallery in 1946. There she was given a series of one-person exhibitions in the years from 1956 to 1975. Her art achieved national recognition through her shows at the Parsons Gallery, when New York replaced Paris as an international art center and Abstract Expressionism became a leading influence in the art world.
