Author: Wanamaker Art GalleryPublisher:
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Category : Drawing, American
Languages : en
Pages :
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Black and White Drawings by American Artists
Author: Wanamaker Art GalleryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Drawing, American
Languages : en
Pages :
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African American Art and Artists
Author: Samella S. LewisPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
Drawing from historical and private collections around the country, Samella Lewis has gathered an impressive representation of the work of African American artists, from the 18th century to the present. For this edition she has provided a new chapter on art of the last decade. Handsomely and generously illustrated, this book reveals a rich legacy of work by African American painters, sculptors, and graphic artists. "Art historical scholarship is greatly advanced by Samella Lewis's African American Art and Artists in that it foregrounds the work of artists who have been influencing the texture of art in the United States during the last two decades of the 20th century. Throughout African American Art and Artists, Lewis interrogates the issue of identity by presenting the biographical sketch, which locates the individual artistic personality within a specific cultural background with its own peculiar dynamics, giving a face to two cities of Black American art. Without polemics Lewis presents women artists--Edmonia Lewis to Allison Saar--as principal players in constructing an African American visual arts legacy. Here Lewis sufficiently defines the visual arts in order that they may assume their rightful place alongside African American music, literature and folklore as cultural expressions that have helped to give American culture its distinct character."--from the foreword by Floyd Coleman, Harvard University.
Drawings by American Artists
Author: Norman KentPublisher:
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Category : Artists, American
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
Reproductions of works by 75 20th-century artists with brief notes by the editor.
Now Dig This!
Author: Kellie JonesPublisher: Prestel Publishing
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 362
Book Description
This comprehensive, lavishly illustrated catalogue offers an in-depth survey of the incredibly vital but often overlooked legacy of Los Angeles's African American artists, featuring many never-before-seen works.
Charles White
Author: Sarah Kelly OehlerPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300232985
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 249
Book Description
A revelatory reassessment of one of the most influential American artists of the 20th century Charles White (1918–1979) is best known for bold, large-scale paintings and drawings of African Americans, meticulously executed works that depict human relationships and socioeconomic struggles with a remarkable sensitivity. This comprehensive study offers a much-needed reexamination of the artist’s career and legacy. With handsome reproductions of White’s finest paintings, drawings, and prints, the volume introduces his work to contemporary audiences, reclaims his place in the art-historical narrative, and stresses the continuing relevance of his insistent dedication to producing positive social change through art. Tracing White’s career from his emergence in Chicago to his mature practice as an artist, activist, and educator in New York and Los Angeles, leading experts provide insights into White’s creative process, his work as a photographer, his political activism and interest in history, the relationship between his art and his teaching, and the importance of feminism in his work. A preface by Kerry James Marshall addresses White’s significance as a mentor to an entire generation of practitioners and underlines the importance of this largely overlooked artist.
Black Artists on Art
Author: Samella S. LewisPublisher:
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Category : African American art
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
Charles White
Author: Andrea Barnwell BrownleePublisher: Pomegranate
ISBN: 9780764921292
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 140
Book Description
One of the greatest American artists of the twentieth century, Charles White (1918-1979) --with amazing spirit, vision, and brilliance--devoted both his life and work to portraying the African American community. With pencil and brush, in black and white or in color, he captured not only the poverty, strife, and despair of the black people but their strength of community, the joy of enlightenment, and the tenderness of kinship as well, rejecting the usual stereotypes of black people as inferior. His canvases, woodcuts, monumental drawings, and murals convey his strong social consciousness and impart the inherent dignity of his subjects.Andrea Barnwell chronicles the highlights of White's career, discusses several of the artist's famous works, and introduces many works from private collections that never before have been examined. Although White's works are in the collections of major museums and libraries, including Hampton University Museum, Hampton, Virginia; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Howard University Gallery of Art, Washington; the Art Institute of Chicago; and the Flint Institute of Art, his place in the annals of art history has never been fully realized.
Roy Lichtenstein
Author: Isabelle DervauxPublisher: Hatje Cantz
ISBN: 9783775726436
Category : Artists' preparatory studies
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Text by Isabelle Dervaux, Graham Bader, Clare Bell, Lindsey Tyne.
A History of African-American Artists
Author: Romare BeardenPublisher: Pantheon
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 600
Book Description
A landmark work of art history: lavishly illustrated and extraordinary for its thoroughness, A History of African-American Artists -- conceived, researched, and written by the great American artist Romare Bearden with journalist Harry Henderson, who completed the work after Bearden's death in 1988 -- gives a conspectus of African-American art from the late eighteenth century to the present. It examines the lives and careers of more than fifty signal African-American artists, and the relation of their work to prevailing artistic, social, and political trends both in America and throughout the world. Beginning with a radical reevaluation of the enigma of Joshua Johnston, a late eighteenth-century portrait painter widely assumed by historians to be one of the earliest known African-American artists, Bearden and Henderson go on to examine the careers of Robert S. Duncanson, Edward M. Bannister, Henry Ossawa Tanner, Aaron Douglas, Edmonia Lewis, Jacob Lawrence, Hale A. Woodruff, Augusta Savage, Charles H. Alston, Ellis Wilson, Archibald J. Motley, Jr., Horace Pippin, Alma W. Thomas, and many others. Illustrated with more than 420 black-and-white illustrations and 61 color reproductions -- including rediscovered classics, works no longer extant, and art never before seen in this country -- A History of African-American Artists is a stunning achievement.
Black Artists in America
Author: Earnestine JenkinsPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300260908
Category : ART
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Foreword and acknowledgments / Kevin Sharp -- Black artists in America : From the Great Depression to Civil Rights -- Augusta Savage in Paris : African themes and the Black female body -- Walter Augustus Simon : abstract expressionist, art educator, and art historian -- Catalogue of the exhibition.