African American Arts
Title | African American Arts PDF eBook |
Author | Sharrell D. Luckett |
Publisher | |
Pages | 323 |
Release | 2019 |
Genre | ART |
ISBN | 9781684481569 |
"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
Title | African American Art PDF eBook |
Author | Smithsonian American Art Museum |
Publisher | |
Pages | 264 |
Release | 2012 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN |
"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
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 |
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
Title | African-American Art PDF eBook |
Author | Sharon F. Patton |
Publisher | Oxford University Press, USA |
Pages | 328 |
Release | 1998 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 9780192842138 |
Discusses African American folk art, decorative art, photography, and fine 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 |
African American Visual Arts: From Slavery to the Present
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 |
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 |
Included in the examples are works from the Charleston and Old Slave Mart museums and the ironwork of Philip Simmons.