An edition of African American visual arts (2009)
African American visual arts
from slavery to the present
By Celeste-Marie Bernier
Publish Date
2009
Publisher
University of North Carolina Press
Language
eng
Pages
264
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.