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Painting Harlem modern : the art of Jacob Lawrence

Title: Painting Harlem modern : the art of Jacob Lawrence / Patricia Hills.
Author: Hills, Patricia.
Publication: Berkeley : University of California Press, c2009.

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Description

x, 354 p. : ill. (some col.); 27 cm.

Subject

Note

"Ahmanson-Murphy fine arts imprint"--Prelim. p.
"Published with the assistance of the Getty Foundation."

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

The artist's place in Harlem. Harlem's artistic community in the 1930s -- Patrons and the making of a professional artist -- Themes and issues. African American storytelling: Toussaint L'Ouverture and Harriet Tubman -- The great migration in memory, pictures, and text -- Confrontations with the Jim Crow South in the 1940s -- Home in Harlem: tenements and streets -- The double consciousness of masks and masking -- The paintings of the protest years, 1955-70 -- Epilogue -- Acknowledgments -- Appendix: Jacob Armstead Lawrence and his family.

Call Number

Sc F 10-30

ISBN

9780520252417 (cloth : alk. paper)
0520252411 (cloth : alk. paper)

LCCN

2009022224

OCLC

317461614

Author

Hills, Patricia.

Title

Painting Harlem modern : the art of Jacob Lawrence / Patricia Hills.

Imprint

Berkeley : University of California Press, c2009.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Lawrence, Jacob, 1917-2000.

Getty Foundation.

Research Call Number

Sc F 10-30

JQF 10-495.

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