African American visual arts
Subtitle: from slavery to the present
By: Celeste-Marie Bernier.
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Chapel Hill
Language: eng
Number of pages: 264
ISBN-13: 9780807832561; 9780807859339
Subjects: African American art
Description: This book covers the diversity, range, and experimental nature of African American art and artists and considers their relationship to key motifs within black culture and experience in North America. It traces the major developments in African American visual culture from its beginnings in the ceramics and textiles of slave artisans to later contributions in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries to the fine arts and abstract expressionism, sculpture, installation art, video art, and computer graphics. It analyzes the work of twenty-one artists, including Elizabeth Catlett, Jacob Lawrence, William Edmondson, Howardena Pindell, Charles Alston, Romare Bearden, Norman Lewis, Betye Saar, Horace Pippin, and Kara Walker.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: 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; title: Language; title: Anti-art, anti-histories, and anti-narratives.