| Descript |
xii, 264 pages, 16 pages of plates illustrations (chiefly color) 22 cm. |
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BAAS paperbacks
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BAAS paperbacks
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| Contents |
'The slave who paints': beginnings and the visual arts tradition -- 'Establishing an art era' in the Harlem renaissance -- Struggle, survival and early abstraction -- 'Images are weapons': history, narrative and a people's art -- 'Art comes to have a life of its own': aesthetics, experimentation and a new visual language -- 'Racist pathology is the muck': towards a transgressive visual poetics. |
| Note |
"Published in association with the British Association for American Studies"--Page 4 of cover. |
| Bibliog. |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 234-257) and index. |
| Summary |
"This book examines the quilts, ceramics, paintings, sculpture, installations, assemblages, daguerrotypes, photography and performance art produced by African American artists over a 200-year period. The author draws on archaeological discoveries and unpublished archival materials to recover the lost legacies of artists living and working in the United States." "The first critical study to provide in-depth case studies of 20 artists, this book introduces readers to works created in response to the Middle Passage, Atlantic slavery, lynching, racism, segregation and the fight for civil rights. Celeste-Marie Bernier examines little-discussed panoramas, murals, portraits, textile designs, collages and mixed-media installations to get to grips with key motifs and formal issues within African American art history." "Working within this tradition, artists experiment with cutting-edge techniques and alternative subject-matter to undermine racist iconography and endorse a new visual language. They push thematic and formal boundaries to create powerful narratives and epic histories of creativity, labour, discrimination, suffering and resistance. By providing close readings of works by artists such as Elizabeth Catlett, Jacob Lawrence, William Edmonson, Howardena Pindell, Charles Alston, Romare Bearden, Norman Lewis, Betye Saar, Horace Pippin and Kara Walker, this book sheds new light on the thematic and formal complexities of an African American art tradition which still remains largely shrouded in mystery."--Jacket. |
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African American art.
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Kunst
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Künstler
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Schwarze
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Afrika
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USA
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USA.
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Schwarze.
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| Alt Author |
British Association for American Studies.
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| ISBN |
9780748623563 (pbk.) |
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0748623566 (pbk.) |
| Class. |
HD 575
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LO 94030
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Ib
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704.0396073
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