{"product_id":"in-her-place-nashville-artists-in-the-twenty-first-century-9780826508348","title":"In Her Place: Nashville Artists in the Twenty-First Century","description":"\u003ci\u003eIn Her Place\u003c\/i\u003e charts a network of artists working at a high caliber with deceptively specific criteria--they are all women, and they all work in Nashville, Tennessee. The plurality of styles, subjects, and media they choose to work in is so diverse that grouping them together proves that, if anything, there are as many differences among these artists as there are similarities. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e But isn't that what it is to be Southern? Hasn't life in the American South been a quagmire of contradictions from the very start? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e The South has always been defined as much by what it isn't as what it is, in much the same way that women have been defined by how they are not like men. The standard for an American artist--and perhaps for a person in general--seems to be a white, straight, cisgender man of vaguely Northern residence. Anything that deviates from that criteria needs to be justified, pointed out, turned into something exceptional in order to simply be visible. It is refreshing, then, that this exhibition does not wallow in the stagnant waters of Southern stereotypes. The artists of\u003ci\u003e In Her Place \u003c\/i\u003eare legion. They include a Tehran-born sculptor making vessels out of Tennessee red clay, an artist from Arkansas working with cardboard and references to unsettling histories, and a Nashville-born painter whose images of civil rights-era sit-ins read just as poignantly in 2026 as they would have in 1960. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e If anything ties these artists together, it is not their gender or their location. It is their shared ingenuity and the comfort with which they subvert.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Kathryn E. Delmez\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Vanderbilt University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/15\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSeries:\u003c\/b\u003e In Collaboration with Frist Art Museum\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 192\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 2.85lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 12.31h x 9.31w x 0.91d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780826508348","brand":"Vanderbilt University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45521009311881,"sku":"9780826508348","price":50.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0636\/9240\/6921\/files\/img_ee9e76a7-aa97-46f9-911a-45210a305a89.jpg?v=1776224954","url":"https:\/\/sonsanddaughtersbooks.com\/products\/in-her-place-nashville-artists-in-the-twenty-first-century-9780826508348","provider":"Sons and Daughters Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}