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The art of history : African American women artists engage the past
- Title
- The art of history : African American women artists engage the past / Lisa Gail Collins.
- Author
- Collins, Lisa Gail.
- Publication
- New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press, ©2002.
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Details
- Description
- xii, 161 p. : ill., map; 26 cm.
- Summary
- This title examines the work of contemporary African-American women artists, focusing on four problems that recur when these artists confront their histories.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [147]-155) and index.
- Contents
- A visual paradox : art and aesthetics in African American thought -- Historic retrievals : confronting visual evidence and the imaging of truth -- Economies of the flesh : representing the Black female body in art -- Visible roots and visual routes : art, Africanisms, and the Sea Islands -- Brown crayons and Black dolls: the art of coming of age.
- ISBN
- 0813530210
- 9780813530215
- 0813530229
- 9780813530222
- LCCN
- 2001048402
- OCLC
- ocm47844580
- 47844580
- SCSB-9026705
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library