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A history of African-American artists : from 1792 to the present
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Examines the lives and careers of over fifty African-American artists, and the relation of their work to prevailing artistic, social, and political trends in America and throughout the world.
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- Creator
- Romare Bearden & Harry Henderson
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
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- First Edition
- New York : Pantheon Books, [1993]
- ©1993
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- xvii, 541 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 31 cm
- ISBNs
- 0394570162, 9780394570167
- OCLC
- ocm25368962
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 479-514) and index.
- The late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The question of Joshua Johnston ; Robert S. Duncanson ; Edward M. Bannister ; Grafton T. Brown ; Edmonia Lewis ; Henry Ossawa Tanner ; Other significant early artists -- The twenties and the Black Renaissance. Aaron Douglas ; Richmond Barthé ; Archibald J. Motley, Jr. ; Palmer C. Hayden ; Augusta Savage ; Malvin Gray Johnson ; W.H. Johnson ; Hale A. Woodruff ; Sargent Johnson -- Emergence of African-American artists during the Depression. Three influential people : Alain Leroy Locke, Charles Christopher Seifert, Mary Beattie Brady ; Charles H. Alston ; Eldzier Cortor ; Beauford Delaney ; Joseph Delaney ; Jacob Lawrence ; Norman Lewis ; Hughie Lee-Smith ; Ellis Wilson -- The naive, self-taught artists. William Edmondson ; Horace Pippin -- Art departments in African-American colleges. James A. Porter ; Lois Mailou Jones ; James Lesesne Wells -- Post-World War II African-American artists. Charles White ; Elizabeth Catlett ; John T. Biggers ; Carroll H. Simms ; Alma W. Thomas ; Ed Wilson ; James W. Washington, Jr. ; Richard Mayhew