Talk:Lynch Fragments
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Nominator: 19h00s (talk · contribs) 16:21, 21 February 2025 (UTC)
Reviewer: WriterArtistDC (talk · contribs) 14:51, 21 August 2025 (UTC)
- This should be quick, since the heavy lifting was done in the January peer review. I will likely only do a spot check of sources. WriterArtistDC (talk) 15:00, 21 August 2025 (UTC)
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Did you know nomination
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- ... that sculptures from the series Lynch Fragments by Melvin Edwards are made with metal scraps and objects like axes, barbed wire, chains, nails, padlocks, spikes and wrenches?
- Source: Brenson, Michael (1993), "Lynch Fragments", in Gedeon, Lucinda H. (ed.), Melvin Edwards Sculpture: A Thirty-Year Retrospective, 1963–1993, University of Washington Press/Neuberger Museum of Art, p. 21: "They may retain a high degree of literalness and an air of practicality because of their bolts, chains, gears, hammers, jacks, nails, padlocks, scissors, spikes, and wrenches, but their compositional exchanges, sculptural unity, and poetic suggestiveness are always more persuasive [...]"
- Gregg, Gail (February 1995), "Poetry in Heavy Metal", ARTnews, vol. 94, no. 2, p. 106: "Relics of his own childhood in the segregated south are woven throughout his steel relief pieces: bicycle chains, auto parts, barbed wire, cups, knives, farming implements."
- Moura, Rodrigo (2018), "Lynch Fragments: Pieces of Life, Shards of History", In Pedrosa, Adriano; Moura, Rodrigo (eds.), Melvin Edwards: Lynch Fragments, Sao Paulo Museum of Art, p. 9: "Shovels, axes, rakes, and horseshoes evoke the rural context of the U.S. South, where the artist's ancestors settled and where he spent part of his childhood [...]"
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Improved to Good Article status by 19h00s (talk).
Number of QPQs required: 0. Nominator has fewer than 5 past nominations.
19h00s (talk) 01:02, 22 August 2025 (UTC).