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The hearing eye : jazz & blues influences in African American visual art

Title
The hearing eye : jazz & blues influences in African American visual art / edited by Graham Lock and David Murray.
Publication
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009.

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Additional Authors
  • Lock, Graham, 1948-
  • Murray, David, 1945-
Description
xv, 366 p. : ill. (chiefly col.); 26 cm.
Subject
  • African American art > 20th century
  • Art and music > United States > History > 20th century
  • Jazz in art
  • Blues (Music) in art
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
"Selling that stuff": advertising art and early blues on 78s / Paul Oliver -- Blues on the brush: Rose Piper's blues and Negro folk songs paintings of the 1940s / Graham Lock -- Michael Cummings: stitching in tempo -- "Pure eye music": Norman Lewis, abstract expressionism, and bebop / Sara Wood -- Sam Middleton: the painter as improvising soloist -- The enigma of Bob Thompson / Richard H. King -- Wadsworth Jarrell and AFRICOBRA: sheets of color, sheets of sound -- "We used to say 'stashed'": Romare Bearden paints the blues / Robert G. O'Meally -- "Blues and the abstract truth": or, did Romare Bearden really paint jazz? / Johannes Völz -- Joe Overstreet: light in darkness -- Royalty, heroism, and the streets: the art of Jean-Michel Basquiat / Robert Farris Thompson -- Ellen Banks: the geometries of the score -- "And you slip into the breaks and look around": jazz and everyday life in the photographs of Roy DeCarava / Richard Ings -- A Jackson in the house: musicians talk painters.
Call Number
Sc F 09-94
ISBN
  • 9780195340501 (alk. paper)
  • 0195340507 (alk. paper)
  • 9780195340518 (alk. paper)
  • 0195340515 (alk. paper)
LCCN
2007047198
OCLC
181730605
Title
The hearing eye : jazz & blues influences in African American visual art / edited by Graham Lock and David Murray.
Imprint
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Added Author
Lock, Graham, 1948-
Murray, David, 1945-
Research Call Number
Sc F 09-94
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