Bill Keith (artist)

Bill Keith (artist)

William "Bill" Keith (January 20 1929 – September 1 2004) was an American artist who began his artistic life as a painter, but moved into photography and visual poetry. His visual poetry ran a full gamut from calligrams inspired by Apollinaire and other early 20th Century French poets to Lettrisme to the Minimalism and Op Art of the 1960s. As his work developed, he concentrated increasingly on African and African-American themes and sources. The development toward African roots and branches lead away from the Roman alphabet and more toward the store of iconography and symbolism from Egypt to South Africa to the American diaspora. As he progressed, he developed graphic techniques suggested by textiles, wood carvings, bronze casts, ceramics, and other indigenous arts. He built up rhythmic patterns through repetions of graphic elements from sources as diverse as road signs and zebra stripes. Keith's work as a whole becomes a celebration of the adventures of African sources as they moved and interacted with the rest of the world. Individual works may initially seem merely decorative, but familiarity reveals a call to the kinetics and dynamics of celebration. Keith is survived by his twin sons, Antar and Tarik, to whom he dedidicated his book" Pictographs" to.

Bibliography

*Sphinx (Xerolage, 1992)
*Wisdom (Runaway Spoon, 1993)
*Pictographs (Left Hand Books, 1996)
*Stalking the Minotaur (Koja Pres, 2003)

External links

* [http://www.thing.net/~grist/lnd/kaldron/b-keith.htm Selected Openings of Pictographs]
* [http://www.williamjamesaustin.com/blackbox.html Tributes and Appreciations at Black Box magazine. Scroll about half way down the long page and click each individual entry you'd like to read.]


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