African American visual arts /
Bernier, Celeste-Marie.
British Association for American Studies.
Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press,
c2008.
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"Published in association with the British Association for American Studies"--P. [4] of cover.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 234-257) and index.
'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.
African American art.