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Painting Harlem modern : the art of Jacob Lawrence / Patricia Hills.
Fine Arts Library ND237.L29 H55 2009
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hills, Patricia.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Lawrence, Jacob, 1917-2000--Criticism and interpretation.
- Lawrence, Jacob.
- Lawrence, Jacob, 1917-2000--Themes, motives.
- Lawrence, Jacob, 1917-2000.
- Themes, motives.
- Criticism and interpretation.
- Physical Description:
- x, 354 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 27 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Berkeley : University of California Press, [2009]
- Contents:
- The artist's place in Harlem. Harlem's artistic community in the 1930s
- Patrons and the making of a professional artist
- Themes and issues. African American storytelling: Toussaint L'Ouverture and Harriet Tubman
- The great migration in memory, pictures, and text
- Confrontations with the Jim Crow South in the 1940s
- Home in Harlem: tenements and streets
- The double consciousness of masks and masking
- The paintings of the protest years, 1955-70
- Epilogue
- Acknowledgments
- Appendix: Jacob Armstead Lawrence and his family.
- Notes:
- "Ahmanson Murphy fine arts imprint"--Prelim. p.
- "Published with the assistance of the Getty Foundation."
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780520252417
- 0520252411
- OCLC:
- 317461614
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