African American visual arts
By: Celeste-Marie Bernier.
Contributors: British Association for American Studies.
Series: BAAS paperbacks
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Edinburgh
Language: eng
Number of pages: 264
ISBN-13: 9780748623563
Subjects: African American art
Notes: "Published in association with the British Association for American Studies"--P. [4] of cover.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 234-257) and index.
Table of contents: title: 'The slave who paints': beginnings and the visual arts tradition; title: 'Establishing an art era' in the Harlem renaissance; title: Struggle, survival and early abstraction; title: 'Images are weapons': history, narrative and a people's art; title: 'Art comes to have a life of its own': aesthetics, experimentation and a new visual language; title: 'Racist pathology is the muck': towards a transgressive visual poetics.