African American Art and Artists

Name: African American Art and Artists
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ISBN: 9780520239357

ISBN-10: 0520239350

ISBN-13: 9780520239357

Edition: 1st 2003 (Revised)

Authors: Samella Lewis, Floyd Coleman, Mary Jane Hewitt

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Samella Lewis has brought African American Art and Artists fully up to date in this revised and expanded edition. The book now looks at the works and lives of artists from the eighteenth century to the present, including new work in traditional media as well as in installation art, mixed media, and digital/computer art. Mary Jane Hewitt, an author, curator, and longtime friend of Samella Lewis's, has written an introduction to the new edition. Generously and handsomely illustrated, the book continues to reveal the rich legacy of work by African American artists, whose art is now included in the permanent collections of national and international museums as well as in major private…

Book details

List price: $44.95
Edition: 1st
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 3/18/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 360
Size: 8.50" wide x 11.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 2.772
Language: English



Foreword


Introduction to the Revised and Expanded Edition


Preface


Acknowledgments


Introduction 1619-1865


Cultural Deprivation and Slavery


The Craft Heritage as an Economic Resource


The Emergence of Professional Artists Freemen and the Abolitionist Movement


Discrimination and the Problem of Patronage 1865-1920


Emancipation and Cultural Dilemma


The First Major Landscape Painter


The Diverse Quests for Professional Status American Reliance on the European


Artistic Tradition 192-1940:


New Americanism and Ethnic Identity


The Spread of the Harlem Movement


The Self-Taught Individualists 1940-1960


Social and Political Awareness


Mural Art as Cultural and Social Commentary


The WPA and Its Legacy 1960-1990


Political and Cultural Awareness


Painting


The Flag: A Symbol of Repression Reality and the Dream Symbolism: Geometric, Organic, and Figurative


Mixed-Media Assemblages Sculpture: Additive or Direct


Art/Craft Drawing Graphic Processes: Economical and Aesthetic


Approaches to Communication Performances/Installations/Environments 1990-2002


From Painting to Technology: Art Before and into The New Millennium


Painting Sculpture Installation


Art Mixed-Media Art Digital/Computer Art


Conclusion


Bibliography


Index