Creating their own image : the history of African-American women artists / Lisa E. Farrington.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Farrington, Lisa E.

Contributor:

Joanna Banks Collection of African American Books (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African American art.

African American women artists.

Penn Provenance:

Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)

Physical Description:

12 unnumbered pages, 354 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 29 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, [2005]

Summary:

Weaving together an expansive collection of artists, styles, and periods, Lisa Farrington explores how, for centuries, African-American women artists have created an alternative vision of how women of color are be represented in American culture.

Contents:

Part I. The image; Creativity and the era of slavery; The nineteenth-century professional vanguard; The Harlem Renaissance and the New Negro; The New Negro and the New Deal; Civil rights and Black power; Black feminist art

Part II. Abstract explorations; Conceptualism: art as idea; Vernacular artists: against the odds; Postmodern pluralism; "Post-black" art and the new millennium.

Notes:

"Cover art: Emma Amos, Measuring Measuring, 1995, acrylic on linen canvas, African fabric collage, woven border, laser-transfer photographs, 84 x 70" (213.3 x 177.8 cm.)."

"'Creating Their Own Image' marks the first comprehensive history of African-American women artists, from slavery to the present day."--Dust jacket.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [325]-329) and index.

Black Caucus of the American Library Association Literary Awards - Outstanding Contribution to Publishing Citation, Winner, 2006

Local Notes:

Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.

Banks Collection copy has dust jacket retained.

ISBN:

019516721X

9780195167214

OCLC:

53144618

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