History of African-American Artists From 1792 to the Present

Name: History of African-American Artists From 1792 to the Present
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ISBN: 9780394570167

ISBN-10: 0394570162

ISBN-13: 9780394570167

Edition: N/A

Authors: Romare Bearden, Harry Henderson

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A landmark work of art history: lavishly illustrated and extraordinary for its thoroughness, A History of African-American Artists -- conceived, researched, and written by the great American artist Romare Bearden with journalist Harry Henderson, who completed the work after Bearden's death in 1988 -- gives a conspectus of African-American art from the late eighteenth century to the present. It examines the lives and careers of more than fifty signal African-American artists, and the relation of their work to prevailing artistic, social, and political trends both in America and throughout the world. Beginning with a radical reevaluation of the enigma of Joshua Johnston, a late…

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List price: $75.00
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 10/26/1993
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 560
Size: 9.50" wide x 12.25" long x 1.50" tall
Weight: 5.896
Language: English



Special Acknowledgments


Introduction


The Late Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries


The Question of Joshua Johnston


Robert S. Duncanson


Edward M. Bannister


Grafton T. Brown


Edmonia Lewis


Henry Ossawa Tanner


Other Significant Early Artists


The Twenties and the Black Renaissance


Aaron Douglas


Richmond Barthe


Archibald J. Motley, Jr.


Palmer C. Hayden


Augusta Savage


Malvin Gray Johnson


W. H. Johnson


Hale A. Woodruff


Sargent Johnson


Emergence of African-American Artists During the Depression


Three Influential People - Alain Leroy Locke, Charles Christopher Seifert, Mary Beattie Brady


Charles H. Alston


Eldzier Cortor


Beauford Delaney


Joseph Delaney


Jacob Lawrence


Norman Lewis


Hughie Lee-Smith


Ellis Wilson


The Naive, Self-Taught Artists


William Edmondson


Horace Pippin


Art Departments in African-American Colleges


James A. Porter


Lois Mailou Jones


James Lesesne Wells


Post-World War II African-American Artists


Charles White


Elizabeth Catlett


John T. Biggers


Carroll H. Simms


Alma W. Thomas


Ed Wilson


James W. Washington, Jr.


Richard Mayhew


Notes


Index


Illustration Credits


Permissions Acknowledgments