Journal Articles by Mark N Taylor
Georgia Historical Quarterly, 2024
Jewel Woodard Simon (1911–1996) was a pioneering African American with a half-century career as a... more Jewel Woodard Simon (1911–1996) was a pioneering African American with a half-century career as a visual artist who surmounted the barriers of race and sex to become the leading figure in Black Atlanta’s artistic community in the 1960s and ’70s. She discovered her artistic talent when she was a high school math teacher in 1930s Houston. Soon thereafter she married Edward L. Simon, an insurance executive, and they moved to Atlanta. There in the 1950s, she wanted a more formal education in the visual arts, but the school attached to the High Museum was segregated. In the course of a decades-long struggle to desegregate the school and the museum, she became the school’s first Black graduate in 1967 without fanfare. How she accomplished this is the subject of this article. Her story has never been told until now. GHQ editor Glenn McNair wrote: “She was one of history’s quiet heroes, people who have changed our lives with few of us ever being aware of them.” Telling her story requires for context a reexamination of the White elite Atlanta art world, a story which has not been examined as inclusive history. (Presented here Courtesy of the Georgia Historical Society).
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AANR Bulletin, 2019
Jewel Woodard Simon (1911-1996) takes her first life drawing classes at the Atlanta School of Art... more Jewel Woodard Simon (1911-1996) takes her first life drawing classes at the Atlanta School of Art in 1964 and 1965
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Unpublished conference paper
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This is a corrected version of an article that is published in Slavery & Abolition Vol. 23, No. 3... more This is a corrected version of an article that is published in Slavery & Abolition Vol. 23, No. 3, December 2002, pp.117–136.
Collaborator Dizzard replaced Taylor's meticulously edited edition with an error-prone copy. A long list of corrections was published in the following issue of Slavery & Abolition. This copy restores Taylor's edited edition.
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An unpublished Georgia/Florida history article.
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Papers by Mark N Taylor
Paper delivered in "Indigenous Styles of Haitian Art," Haitian Art Society Art Talk with Gerard A... more Paper delivered in "Indigenous Styles of Haitian Art," Haitian Art Society Art Talk with Gerard Alexis and Mark N. Taylor, 28 Oct 2021. https://haitianartsociety.org/art-talk-1-indigenous-styles-of-haitian-art
This paper situates the Saint Soleil art movement within the 20th-century history of Haitian art, with special attention to Robert Saint-Brice. The paper concludes with a brief look at certain Saint-Soleil artists and their developments. An appendix lists all known Saint-Soleil artists.
If DeWitt Peters's founding of the Cenre d'Art in 1944 mark's Haiti's greatest art renaissance, then Tiga's founding of Saint Soleil 30 years later must represent Haiti's greatest art revolution. To call Saint Soleil a revolution is to assert that its style could not have evolved from or been anticipated by the styles associated with the Centre d'Art. There is yet no sustained critical study of Saint Soleil leading toward a comprehensive history about the movement and its art. This talk is a gesture in response to that gap.
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Conference paper version. Published version is greatly expanded (The Francophone World and Its Ne... more Conference paper version. Published version is greatly expanded (The Francophone World and Its Neighbours : Medieval Multilingualism in England, France, and Italy (Medieval Texts and Cultures of Northern Europe, 20). ed. Keith Busby and Chris Kleinhenz. Brepols, 2010, pp. 107–126).
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Two unpublished conference papers on multiculturalism in 12-13th century England.
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Conference paper version. Revised and published as two articles: “The Lyrics of the Troubadour Ma... more Conference paper version. Revised and published as two articles: “The Lyrics of the Troubadour Marcabru: Vocabulary for Love as an Aid to Chronology.” Neuphilologische Mitteilungen 94 (1993): 323–344 and “The Cansos of the Troubadour Marcabru: Critical Texts and a Commentary.” Romania 118,3/4 (2000): 336–374
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Four unpublished conference papers on medieval literature
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Scholarship—Minor Documents by Mark N Taylor
Archive Atlanta, 2020
Mark and his wife Melinda were inside Broad Street Antiques in Chamblee, when a certain watercolo... more Mark and his wife Melinda were inside Broad Street Antiques in Chamblee, when a certain watercolor caught their eye. It had faces, swirls, rhythms, colors, musical notes, keyboards, bits of instruments and books with poems. After trying to find information on the artist, Jewel Simon, they found almost nothing published. Mark dove head first into the archives and as her life unfolded, so did the story of this remarkable Black woman, artist, mother and Atlantan.
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Journal Articles by Mark N Taylor
Chess in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Age: A Fundamental Thought Paradigm of the Premodern World (Fundamentals of Medieval and Early Modern Culture). ed. Daniel O’Sullivan. De Gruyter, 2011, pp. 175-189
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http://www.medievalists.net/2013/06/06/how-did-the-queen-go-mad-examining-changes-in-chess-moves-in-the-middle-ages/
Collaborator Dizzard replaced Taylor's meticulously edited edition with an error-prone copy. A long list of corrections was published in the following issue of Slavery & Abolition. This copy restores Taylor's edited edition.
Papers by Mark N Taylor
This paper situates the Saint Soleil art movement within the 20th-century history of Haitian art, with special attention to Robert Saint-Brice. The paper concludes with a brief look at certain Saint-Soleil artists and their developments. An appendix lists all known Saint-Soleil artists.
If DeWitt Peters's founding of the Cenre d'Art in 1944 mark's Haiti's greatest art renaissance, then Tiga's founding of Saint Soleil 30 years later must represent Haiti's greatest art revolution. To call Saint Soleil a revolution is to assert that its style could not have evolved from or been anticipated by the styles associated with the Centre d'Art. There is yet no sustained critical study of Saint Soleil leading toward a comprehensive history about the movement and its art. This talk is a gesture in response to that gap.
Scholarship—Minor Documents by Mark N Taylor
Chess in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Age: A Fundamental Thought Paradigm of the Premodern World (Fundamentals of Medieval and Early Modern Culture). ed. Daniel O’Sullivan. De Gruyter, 2011, pp. 175-189
Featured on Medievalists.net
http://www.medievalists.net/2013/06/06/how-did-the-queen-go-mad-examining-changes-in-chess-moves-in-the-middle-ages/
Collaborator Dizzard replaced Taylor's meticulously edited edition with an error-prone copy. A long list of corrections was published in the following issue of Slavery & Abolition. This copy restores Taylor's edited edition.
This paper situates the Saint Soleil art movement within the 20th-century history of Haitian art, with special attention to Robert Saint-Brice. The paper concludes with a brief look at certain Saint-Soleil artists and their developments. An appendix lists all known Saint-Soleil artists.
If DeWitt Peters's founding of the Cenre d'Art in 1944 mark's Haiti's greatest art renaissance, then Tiga's founding of Saint Soleil 30 years later must represent Haiti's greatest art revolution. To call Saint Soleil a revolution is to assert that its style could not have evolved from or been anticipated by the styles associated with the Centre d'Art. There is yet no sustained critical study of Saint Soleil leading toward a comprehensive history about the movement and its art. This talk is a gesture in response to that gap.
This paper assesses the career of African American artist Jewel Woodard Simon (1911-1996) from a feminist perspective.