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African American visual arts : from slavery to the present
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African American visual arts : from slavery to the present / Celeste-Marie Bernier.
ISBN
9780807832561 (cloth : alk. paper)
0807832561 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780807859339 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0807859338 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Published
Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2008.
Physical Description
xii, 264 p., 16 p. of plates : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 23 cm.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
October 20, 2008
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. 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.
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