Cutting a figure
Subtitle: fashioning Black portraiture
By: Richard J. Powell.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780226677279
Subjects: Hendricks, Barkley L., -- 1945-; Luna, Donyale, -- 1945-1979.; African Americans in art -- History.; African Americans -- Portraits -- History.; Portrait drawing, American -- History.; Portrait photography -- United States -- History.; African Americans -- Race identity.; Fashion -- United States -- History.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction, posing while Black; title: Interlocutors; title: Luna obscura; title: Barkley L. Hendricks's Afro-shrine; title: The new Black portraiture; title: Conclusion, beyond the bodies of evidence.