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Introduction | |
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Colonial America and the Young Republic 1700-1820 | |
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Introduction | |
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The fight for independence 1775-83 | |
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Africa, North America and African-American culture | |
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Plantations | |
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Architecture and the plantation layout | |
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Slave houses | |
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The revival of African culture on the plantations | |
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Life on the plantations | |
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New European-Ameriacn influences | |
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A planter's house in Louisiana | |
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Plantation slave artists and craftsmen | |
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Textiles and patchwork quilts | |
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Folk art | |
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Pottery | |
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Urban slave and free artists and craftsmen | |
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Furniture | |
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Silversmiths | |
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Fine artists | |
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Nineteenth-Century America, the Civil War and Reconstruction | |
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Introduction | |
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The anti-slavery movement | |
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Free black and slave artisans | |
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Fine artists | |
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Architecture, the decorative arts, and folk art | |
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Urban and rural architecture | |
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Furniture | |
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Metalwork and woodcarving | |
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Pottery | |
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Quilts | |
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Fine arts: Painting, sculpture, and graphic arts | |
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Exhibitions and the viewing public | |
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Abolitionist patronage | |
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Graphic arts | |
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Landscape painting | |
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Neoclassical sculpture | |
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Genre and biblical painting | |
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Twentieth-Century America and Modern Art 1900-60 | |
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Introduction | |
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Civil rights and double-consciousness | |
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The development of a modern American art | |
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African-American culture, the New Negro and art in the 1920s | |
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The Great Migration | |
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The Jazz Age | |
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Expatriates and Paris, the Negro Colony | |
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The New Negro movement | |
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Photography | |
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The New Negro artist | |
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Graphic art | |
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Painting | |
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The patronage of the New Negro artist | |
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State funding and the rise of African-American art | |
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The Federal Arts Project | |
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The legacy of the New Negro movement | |
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Negritude and figurative sculpture | |
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Folk art | |
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American Scene painting | |
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African-American murals | |
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WPA workshops and community art centres | |
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Social realism | |
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Abstract art and modernism in New York | |
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Abstract figurative painting | |
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Patronage and critical debate | |
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American culture post World War II | |
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Folk art | |
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Painting: Expressionism and Surrealism | |
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Abstract Expressionism and African-American art | |
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Primitivism | |
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Early Abstract Expressionism: Bearden, Woodruff, and Alston | |
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Abstract Expressionism | |
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Second generation of Abstract Expressionists 1955-61 | |
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Twentieth-Century America: The Evolution of Black Aesthetci | |
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Introduction | |
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Civil rights and black nationalism | |
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Cultural crisis: Black artist or American artist? | |
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Spiral artists' group 1963-6 | |
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Painting | |
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The evolution of a modern black aesthetic | |
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Defining black art | |
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Painting | |
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Sculpture | |
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Art institutions and artists' groups | |
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Mainstream art institutions | |
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Black art aesthetcis | |
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Black art and black power | |
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Black artsists' groups | |
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Towards a new abstraction | |
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Are you black enough? | |
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Painting | |
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Sculpture | |
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The postmodern condition 1980-93 | |
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Painting | |
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Video art | |
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Sculpture | |
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Photography | |
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Conclusion | |
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Notes | |
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Llist of Illustrations | |
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Bibliographic Essay | |
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Timeline | |
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Index | |