| Description |
xii, 264 pages, 16 pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 23 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 234-257) and index. |
| Contents |
'The slave who paints': beginnings and the visual arts tradition -- 'Establishing an art era' in the Harlem renaissance -- Struggle, survival and early abstraction -- 'Images are weapons': history, narrative and a people's art -- 'Art comes to have a life of its own': aesthetics, experimentation and a new visual language -- 'Racist pathology is the muck': towards a transgressive visual poetics. |
| Subject |
African American art.
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African American art. |
| ISBN |
9780807859339 paperback alkaline paper |
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9780807832561 cloth alkaline paper |
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0807832561 cloth alkaline paper |
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0807859338 paperback alkaline paper |
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