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Betye Saar: Heart of a Wanderer

Edited by Diana Seave Greenwald, Contributions by Makeda Best, Contributions by Stephanie Sparling Williams

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A richly illustrated look at how travel influenced the work of renowned contemporary artist Betye Saar Betye Saar (b. 1926) is an artist whose assemblages tell visual stories and convey powerful political messages. A leading figure of the Black Arts Movement in the 1970s, she works with found objectsâ€”many of which she gathers on her extensive travelsâ€”to explore themes like symbolic mysticism, feminism, racism, and Eurocentric chauvinism. Betye Saar: Heart of a Wanderer sheds new light on Saarâ€™s unique creative process, her trips around the world, and the diverse ways in which her artworks engage with global histories of travel and forced migration. It presents how the artistâ€™s work conjures the transporting experience of a voyage to a faraway place. This beautifully illustrated book draws on original, in-depth interviews with Saar and the companions who accompanied the artist in her travels across four continents over several decades. Essays by leading scholars contextualize Saarâ€™s journeys within her broader life and career, as well as how her practice fits into broader traditionsâ€”such as scrapbookingâ€”in African American visual culture. In addition to providing this context, this book explores how Saarâ€™s assemblage practice both echoes and provides a critical counterpoint to the collecting practices of Gilded Age American art collectors like Isabella Stewart Gardner. Featuring a wealth of previously unpublished materialâ€”including almost thirty travel sketchbooks and two dozen finished assemblagesâ€”Betye Saar: Heart of a Wanderer provides a fresh look at a groundbreaking American artist while offering a timely social history of the impact of travel on the African American experience. Distributed for the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Exhibition Schedule Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston February 16â€“May 21, 2023

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