African American visual arts

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.

Year

2009

Language

English

Publisher

University of North Carolina Press

Editions

1

Pages

264

ISBN

9780807832561

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