Bibliograph

Black art and culture in the 20th century, Richard J. Powell

Type

Label

Black art and culture in the 20th century, Richard J. Powell

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (p.237-246)

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Black art and culture in the 20th century

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

36243884

Responsibility statement

Richard J. Powell

Series statement

World of art

Summary

The African diaspora - a direct result of the transatlantic slave trade and Western colonialism - has generated a wide array of artistic achievements in our century, from blues to reggae, from the paintings of Henry Ossawa Tanner to the video installations of Keith Piper. This brilliant new study of twentieth-century black art is the first to concentrate on the art works themselves and on how these works, created during a period of major social upheaval andTransformation, use black culture both as subject and as contextual basis. From musings on "the souls of black folk" in turn-of-the-century painting, sculpture and photography, to questions of racial and cultural identities in performance, media and computer-assisted arts in the 1990s, it draws on the work of hundreds of artists including Jean-Michel Basquiat, Romare Bearden, Elizabeth Catlett, Lois Mailou Jones, Wifredo Lam, Jacob Lawrence, Spike Lee, RobertMapplethorpe, Faith Ringgold and Gerard Sekoto; biographies of more than 160 key artists provide a unique and valuable art historical resource

Table Of Contents

Art, culture and "the souls of Black folk" -- Enter and exit the "new Negro" -- The cult of the people -- Pride, assimilation and dreams -- "Black is a color" -- Culture as currency -- Through a glass, diasporally

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