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African-American art : a visual and cultural history /

Title:
African-American art : a visual and cultural history /
Author:
Farrington, Lisa E., author.
Format:
Book
Institution:
Lesley Moriarty
Contents:
1. The art of perception: how art communicates : The primary source -- How to look at art: a case study : Iconography ; Formalism ; Biography ; Semiotics ; Psychoanalysis ; Contextual analyses -- Part I: Eighteenth and nineteenth century art : 2. Art and design in the colonial era : Africanisms in the New World : Architecture ; Sculptural art forms -- Fine arts in the age of slavery -- 3. Federal-period architecture and design : Architecture : Charles Paquet -- Woodwork : Early masters -- Federal-era craftsmen -- Civil War-era craftsmen : Thomas Day ; Henry Gudgell -- Ceramics : "Dave the potter" (David Drake) ; Thomas Commeraw -- Metalwork : Peter Bentzon -- Textile and clothing design : Early quilt making and makers ; Harriet Powers ; Elizabeth Hobbs Keckley -- 4. 19th-century Neoclassicism : Sculpture : Edmonia Lewis ; Florville Foy ; Daniel and Eugene Warburg -- Two-dimensional art : Joshua Johnson ; William Simpson ; Julien Hudson ; African-American women artists and friendship albums ; Jules Lion ; Patrick Henry Reason -- 5. Romanticism to Impressionism in the nineteenth century : The landscape tradition : Robert S. Duncanson ; Grafton Tyler Brown ; Edward Mitchell Bannister -- Portraiture and figurative art : David Bustill Bowser ; Nelson A. Primas ; Henry O. Turner ; Annie E. Anderson Walker ; Photography ; James Presley Ball, Sr.. ; Augustus Washington ; Glenalvin, Wallace, and William Goodridge -- Architecture of the gilded age : Calvin Thomas Stowe Brent ; John Anderson and Arthur Edward Lankford ; George Washington Foster, Jr. ; Julian Francis Abele -- Black vernacular architecture -- Part II: Early to mid-20th century art : Modernism and the Harlem Renaissance : The making of Harlem : The great migration ; "Harlem: mecca of the new Negro" -- Supporting the renaissance: art patrons : Private and institutional patronage ; Black patronage -- Sculpture : Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller ; May Howard Jackson ; Sargent Claude Johnson ; Nancy Elizabeth Prophet ; Richmond BartheĢ -- Painting : William Edouard Scott ; Palmer Hayden ; Archibald Motley, Jr. ; Malvin Gray Johnson ; Aaron Douglas ; William H. Johnson ; Lois Mailou Jones -- Photography and printmaking : James Van Der Zee ; James Latimer Allen ; James Lesesne Wells ; King Daniel Ganaway ; Other African-American photographers -- 7. Social realism : The WPA Federal Art Project -- Social realist murals : Charles Alston and the Harlem Hospital murals ; Hale Woodruff and the Golden State murals -- Avant-garde architecture -- Augusta Savage, the Harlem Art Centers, and the Harlem Artists Guild : Selma Hortense Burke -- The Chicago Arts and Crafts Guild, Artists Union, and South Side Community Art Center : Margaret Burroughs ; Charles White -- Printmaking : Dox Thrash and the Philadelphia Fine Prints Workshop ; The printmaking legacy of Riva Helfond ; Printmakers at Karamu House in Cleveland -- 8. Mid-twentieth century transitions and surrealism : Figuration versus abstraction: a national debate -- The legacy of social realism : Elizabeth Catlett ; Ellis Wilson ; Romare Bearden ; Jacob Lawrence ; Gwendolyn Knight Lawrence ; John Biggers -- Surrealism : Hughie Lee-Smith ; Eldzier Cortor ; Rose Ransier Piper ; Minnie Evans -- Art Brut and self-taught artists : Bill (William) Traylor ; William Edmondson ; Clementine Hunter ; Horace Pippin, Jr. -- Photography : Gordon Parks ; Roy DeCarava ; Charles (Chuck) Stewart -- 9. Abstract expressionism : Action painting, gestural abstraction : Beauford Delaney ; Norman Lewis ; Alma Thomas -- Color field painting : Sam Gilliam ; Richard Mayhew -- Hard-edge painting : Al Loving ; William T. Williams --

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