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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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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
  • African American art
  • African American women artists
  • Frau Motiv
  • Kunst
  • Künstlerin
  • Schwarze Motiv
  • Schwarze Frau
  • USA
  • USA
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