Painting Harlem modern
Subtitle: the art of Jacob Lawrence
By: Patricia Hills.
Contributors: Lawrence, Jacob, 1917-2000.
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Berkeley
Language: eng
Number of pages: 354
ISBN-13: 9780520252417
Subjects: Lawrence, Jacob, -- 1917-2000 -- Criticism and interpretation; Lawrence, Jacob, -- 1917-2000 -- Themes, motives
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The artist's place in Harlem. Harlem's artistic community in the 1930s; title: Patrons and the making of a professional artist; title: Themes and issues. African American storytelling: Toussaint l'Ouverture and Harriet Tubman; title: The great migration in memory, pictures, and text; title: Confrontations with the Jim Crow South in the 1940s; title: Home in Harlem: tenements and streets; title: The double consciousness of masks and masking; title: The paintings of the protest years, 1955/70; title: Epilogue; title: Appendix: Jacob Armstead Lawrence and his family.