| Description |
366 pages : illustrations |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction: The Hearing Eye -- i. One. "Selling That Stuff": Advertising Art and Early Blues on / Paul Oliver -- Two. Blues on the Brush: Rose Piper's Blues and Negro Folk Songs Paintings of the 1940s / Graham Lock -- ii. Three. Michael Cummings: Stitching in Tempo - Interview -- iii. Four. "Pure Eye Music": Norman Lewis, Abstract Expressionism. and Bebop / Sara Wood -- Five. Sam Middleton: The Painter as Improvising Soloist - Interview -- Six. The Enigma of Bob Thompson / Richard H.King -- Seven. Wadsworth Jarrell and Africobra: Sheets of Color, Sheets of Sound - Interview -- iv. Eight. "We Used to Say 'Stashed'": Romare Bearden Paints the Blues / Robert G.O'Meally -- Nine. "Blues and the Abstract Truth": Or, Did Romare Bearden Really Paint Jazz? / Johannes Volz -- v. Ten. Joe Overstreet: Light in Darkness - Interview -- Eleven. Royalty, Heroism, and the Streets: The Art of Jean-Michel Basquiat / Robert Farris Thompson -- Twelve. Ellen Banks: The Geometries of the Score - Interview -- vi. Thirteen. "And You Slip into the Breaks and Look Around": Jazz and Everyday Life in the Photographs of Roy Decarava / Richard Ings -- vii. Forteen. A Jackson in the House: Musicians Talk Painters - Interviews -- Marty Ehrlich on Oliver Jackson -- Jane Ira Bloom on Jackson Pollock |
| Subject |
African American art -- 20th century.
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African American art. |
| Chronological Term |
20th century |
| Subject |
Art and music -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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Art and music. |
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United States. |
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History. |
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Jazz in art.
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Jazz in art. |
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Blues (Music) in art.
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Blues (Music) in art. |
| Added Author |
Lock, Graham, 1948-
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Murray, David, 1945-
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| ISBN |
9780195340501 alkaline paper |
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0195340507 alkaline paper |
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9780195340518 alkaline paper |
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0195340515 alkaline paper |
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