Research Catalog

Title

African-American art : a visual and cultural history / Lisa Farrington, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York.

Author

Farrington, Lisa E.

Publication

• New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, [2017]
• ©2017

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Details

Description

xxvii, 452 pages : illustrations (chiefly color); 26 cm

Summary

African-American Art: A Visual and Cultural History offers a current and comprehensive history that contextualizes black artists within the framework of American art as a whole. The first chronological survey covering all art forms from colonial times to the present to publish in over a decade, it explores issues of racial identity and representation in artistic expression, while also emphasizing aesthetics and visual analysis to help students develop an understanding and appreciation of African-American art that is informed but not entirely defined by racial identity. Through a carefully selected collection of creative works and accompanying analyses, the text also addresses crucial gaps in the scholarly literature, incorporating women artists from the beginning and including coverage of photography, crafts, and architecture in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries as well as twenty-first century developments. All in all, African American Art: A Visual and Cultural History offers a fresh and compelling look at the great variety of artistic expression found in the African-American community.

Subjects

• African American art
• African American art > Study and teaching > Textbooks
• African Americans in art
• African American artists > Textbooks
• Blacks in art
• Textbooks

Genre/Form

Textbooks.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• 1. The art of perception: how art communicates : The primary source -- How to look at art: a case study : Iconography ; Formalism ; Biography ; Semiotics ; Psychoanalysis ; Contextual analyses -- Part I: Eighteenth and nineteenth century art : 2. Art and design in the colonial era : Africanisms in the New World : Architecture ; Sculptural art forms -- Fine arts in the age of slavery -- 3. Federal-period architecture and design : Architecture : Charles Paquet -- Woodwork : Early masters -- Federal-era craftsmen -- Civil War-era craftsmen : Thomas Day ; Henry Gudgell -- Ceramics : "Dave the potter" (David Drake) ; Thomas Commeraw -- Metalwork : Peter Bentzon -- Textile and clothing design : Early quilt making and makers ; Harriet Powers ; Elizabeth Hobbs Keckley -- 4. 19th-century Neoclassicism : Sculpture : Edmonia Lewis ; Florville Foy ; Daniel and Eugene Warburg -- Two-dimensional art : Joshua Johnson ; William Simpson ; Julien Hudson ; African-American women artists and friendship albums ; Jules Lion ; Patrick Henry Reason -- 5. Romanticism to Impressionism in the nineteenth century : The landscape tradition : Robert S. Duncanson ; Grafton Tyler Brown ; Edward Mitchell Bannister -- Portraiture and figurative art : David Bustill Bowser ; Nelson A. Primus ; Henry O. Tanner ; Annie E. Anderson Walker ; Photography ; James Presley Ball, Sr.. ; Augustus Washington ; Glenalvin, Wallace, and William Goodridge -- Architecture of the gilded age : Calvin Thomas Stowe Brent ; John Anderson and Arthur Edward Lankford ; George Washington Foster, Jr. ; Julian Francis Abele -- Black vernacular architecture -- Part II: Early to mid-20th century art : Modernism and the Harlem Renaissance : The making of Harlem : The great migration ; "Harlem: mecca of the new Negro" -- Supporting the renaissance: art patrons : Private and institutional patronage ; Black patronage -- Sculpture : Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller ; May Howard Jackson ; Sargent Claude Johnson ; Nancy Elizabeth Prophet ; Richmond Barthé -- Painting : William Edouard Scott ; Palmer Hayden ; Archibald Motley, Jr. ; Malvin Gray Johnson ; Aaron Douglas ; William H. Johnson ; Lois Mailou Jones -- Photography and printmaking : James Van Der Zee ; James Latimer Allen ; James Lesesne Wells ; King Daniel Ganaway ; Other African-American photographers -- 7. Social realism : The WPA Federal Art Project -- Social realist murals : Charles Alston and the Harlem Hospital murals ; Hale Woodruff and the Golden State murals -- Avant-garde architecture -- Augusta Savage, the Harlem Art Centers, and the Harlem Artists Guild : Selma Hortense Burke -- The Chicago Arts and Crafts Guild, Artists Union, and South Side Community Art Center : Margaret Burroughs ; Charles White -- Printmaking : Dox Thrash and the Philadelphia Fine Prints Workshop ; The printmaking legacy of Riva Helfond ; Printmakers at Karamu House in Cleveland -- 8. Mid-twentieth century transitions and surrealism : Figuration versus abstraction: a national debate -- The legacy of social realism : Elizabeth Catlett ; Ellis Wilson ; Romare Bearden ; Jacob Lawrence ; Gwendolyn Knight Lawrence ; John Biggers -- Surrealism : Hughie Lee-Smith ; Eldzier Cortor ; Rose Ransier Piper ; Minnie Evans -- Art Brut and self-taught artists : Bill (William) Traylor ; William Edmondson ; Clementine Hunter ; Horace Pippin, Jr. -- Photography : Gordon Parks ; Roy DeCarava ; Charles (Chuck) Stewart -- 9. Abstract expressionism : Action painting, gestural abstraction : Beauford Delaney ; Norman Lewis ; Alma Thomas -- Color field painting : Sam Gilliam ; Richard Mayhew -- Hard-edge painting : Al Loving ; William T. Williams -- Figurative expressionism : Robert (Bob) L. Thompson ; Betty Blayton -- Sculpture : Harold Cousins ; Richard Hunt ; Melvin (Mel) Eugene Edwards, Jr. ; Barbara Chase-Riboud --
• Part III: The latter 20th century : 10. Pop and Agitprop: the Black arts movement : Spiral and the civil rights movement : Reginald Gammon ; Raymond Saunders -- The Black arts movement : Museum protests ; Benny Andrews ; Cliff Joseph -- The WEUSI aesthetic : Ademola Olugebefola ; Ben F. Jones ; James Phillips -- OBAC and the Wall of Respect -- AfriCOBRA and the Black aesthetic : Jeffrey Donaldson ; Wadsworth and Jae Jarrell ; Barbara Jones-Hogu ; Nelson Stevens -- The OBAC and AfriCOBRA legacy: Black Power murals : William Walker ; Calvin B. Jones and Mitchell Caton -- Agiprop art : Dana C. Chandler, Jr. ; Joe Overstreet ; David Hammons -- 11. Black feminist art: a crisis of race and sex : A crisis of race and sex -- WSABAL and the WWA -- Black feminist artists : Kay Brown ; Faith Ringgold ; Dindga F. McCannon ; Betye Saar ; Emma Amos ; Nellie Mae Rowe -- Black feminist murals : Vanita Green and Justine Preshé DeVan ; Sharon Haggins Dunn -- 12. Postmodernism : Post-minimalism : Fred Eversley ; Lorenzo Pace ; Martin Puryear -- Conceptual art : Howardena Pindell ; Pat Ward Williams ; Glenn Ligon -- Intermedia art : Houston Conwill ; Terry Adkins ; Lorraine O'Grady ; Adrian Piper ; Renée Green ; Fred Wilson ; Martha Jackson-Jarvis -- Assemblage art : Noah Purifoy ; John Outterbridge ; Aminah Brenda Lynn Robinson ; Alison Saar ; Willie Cole -- Postmodern photography : Carrie Mae Weems ; Dawoud Bey ; Lyle Ashton Harris ; Lorna Simpson -- Part IV: Contemporary trends : 13. Neo-expressionism, the new abstraction, and architecture : Neo-expressionism : Robert Colescott ; Joyce J. Scott ; Michael Ray Charles ; Kara Walker ; Kerry James Marshall ; Jean-Michel Basquiat ; Danny Simmons, Jr. -- The new abstraction : Jack Whitten ; Thornton Dial, Sr. ; Mildred Thompson ; Gaye Ellington -- Architecture : J. Max Bond, Jr. ; Norma Merrick Sklarek ; Mario Gooden and Ray Huff ; Phil Freelon ; The McKissack legacy ; Other notable architects -- 14. Post-Black art and the new millennium : Portraiture and identity politics : Deborah Willis ; Jeff Sonhouse ; Mickalene Thomas ; Kehinde Wiley -- Afrofuturism : Renée Cox ; Ellen Gallagher ; Laylah Ali ; Sanford Biggers ; Xaviera Simmons ; Trenton Doyle Hancock -- New millennium performance art : Nick Cave ; Camille Norment ; Intervention art : William Pope.L ; Theaster Gates -- New media abstraction : Chakaia Booker ; Xenobia Bailey ; Mark Bradford ; Jennie C. Jones ; Shinique Smith.

Call Number

Sc F 19-329

ISBN

• 9780199995394
• 0199995397

LCCN

2015033237

OCLC

919252820

Author

Farrington, Lisa E., author.

Title

African-American art : a visual and cultural history / Lisa Farrington, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York.

Publisher

New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, [2017]

Copyright Date

©2017

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Research Call Number

Sc F 19-329