African American Arts

African American Arts
Title African American Arts PDF eBook
Author Sharrell D. Luckett
Publisher
Pages 323
Release 2019
Genre ART
ISBN 9781684481569

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"Signaling recent activist and aesthetic concepts in the work of Kara Walker, Childish Gambino, BLM, Janelle Monáe, and Kendrick Lamar, and marking the exit of the Obama Administration and the opening of the National Museum of African American History and Culture, this anthology explores the role of African American arts in shaping the future, and further informing new directions we might take in honoring and protecting the success of African Americans in the U.S. The essays in African American Arts: Activism, Aesthetics, and Futurity engage readers in critical conversations by activists, scholars, and artists reflecting on national and transnational legacies of African American activism as an element of artistic practice, particularly as they concern artistic expression and race relations, and the intersections of creative processes with economic, sociological, and psychological inequalities. Scholars from the fields of communication, theater, queer studies, media studies, performance studies, dance, visual arts, and fashion design, to name a few, collectively ask: What are the connections between African American arts, the work of social justice, and creative processes? If we conceive the arts as critical to the legacy of Black activism in the United States, how can we use that construct to inform our understanding of the complicated intersections of African American activism and aesthetics? How might we as scholars and creative thinkers further employ the arts to envision and shape a verdant society?"--

African American Art

African American Art
Title African American Art PDF eBook
Author Smithsonian American Art Museum
Publisher
Pages 264
Release 2012
Genre Art
ISBN

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"Drawn entirely from the Smithsonian American Art Museum's rich collection of African American art, the works include paintings by Benny Andrews, Jacob Lawrence, Thornton Dial Sr., Romare Bearden, Alma Thomas, and Lois Mailou Jones, and photographs by Roy DeCarava, Gordon Parks, Roland Freeman, Marilyn Nance, and James Van Der Zee. More than half of the artworks in the exhibition are being shown for the first time"--Publisher's website.

The Black Arts Movement

The Black Arts Movement
Title The Black Arts Movement PDF eBook
Author James Smethurst
Publisher Univ of North Carolina Press
Pages 488
Release 2006-03-13
Genre Social Science
ISBN 080787650X

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Emerging from a matrix of Old Left, black nationalist, and bohemian ideologies and institutions, African American artists and intellectuals in the 1960s coalesced to form the Black Arts Movement, the cultural wing of the Black Power Movement. In this comprehensive analysis, James Smethurst examines the formation of the Black Arts Movement and demonstrates how it deeply influenced the production and reception of literature and art in the United States through its negotiations of the ideological climate of the Cold War, decolonization, and the civil rights movement. Taking a regional approach, Smethurst examines local expressions of the nascent Black Arts Movement, a movement distinctive in its geographical reach and diversity, while always keeping the frame of the larger movement in view. The Black Arts Movement, he argues, fundamentally changed American attitudes about the relationship between popular culture and "high" art and dramatically transformed the landscape of public funding for the arts.

African-American Art

African-American Art
Title African-American Art PDF eBook
Author Sharon F. Patton
Publisher Oxford University Press, USA
Pages 328
Release 1998
Genre Art
ISBN 9780192842138

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Discusses African American folk art, decorative art, photography, and fine arts.

African American Visual Arts

African American Visual Arts
Title African American Visual Arts PDF eBook
Author Celeste-Marie Bernier
Publisher
Pages 300
Release 2008
Genre African American art
ISBN

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African American Visual Arts: From Slavery to the Present

Black Artists on Art

Black Artists on Art
Title Black Artists on Art PDF eBook
Author Samella S. Lewis
Publisher
Pages 164
Release 1976
Genre African American art
ISBN

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The Afro-American Tradition in Decorative Arts

The Afro-American Tradition in Decorative Arts
Title The Afro-American Tradition in Decorative Arts PDF eBook
Author John Michael Vlach
Publisher University of Georgia Press
Pages 202
Release 1990
Genre Art
ISBN 0820312339

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Included in the examples are works from the Charleston and Old Slave Mart museums and the ironwork of Philip Simmons.