Two centuries of Black American art : [exhibition] / David C. Driskell ; with catalog notes by Leonard Simon.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Driskell, David C., author.

Contributor:

Simon, Leonard, 1936- writer of supplementary textual content.

Los Angeles County Museum of Art, publisher, host institution.

High Museum of Art, host institution.

Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, host institution.

Brooklyn Museum, host institution.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African American art--Exhibitions.

African American art.

Art, American--Exhibitions.

Art, American.

Genre:

Exhibition catalogs.

Physical Description:

221 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 28 cm

Edition:

First edition

Distribution:

New York : Distributed by Random House

Place of Publication:

[Los Angeles] : Los Angeles County Museum of Art ; New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1976

Summary:

"This book represents a major event in the art world. It is the first book to encompass the entire span and range of black art in America, from unknown artisans and journeymen painters of the 18th century to such internationally admired 19th-century artists as Edward M. Bannister, Edmonia Lewis, and Henry Ossawa Tanner, through the artists of the dynamic "Harlem Renaissance" of the 1920s, and up to Horace Pippin, Jacob Lawrence, and Romare Bearden ... and reproduces works, chronologically arranged, by all the 63 artists in the show, their paintings, sculptures, graphics, as well as crafts ranging from dolls to walking sticks" -- Dust cover.

Contents:

Black artists and craftsmen in the formative years, 1750-1920

The evolution of a Black aesthetic, 1920-1950

Color plates

Catalog.

Notes:

"Exhibition dates: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, September 30-November 21, 1976; The High Museum of Art, Atlanta, January 8-February 20, 1977; Museum of Fine Arts, Dallas, March 30-May 15, 1977; The Brooklyn Museum, June 25-August 21, 1977"-- Title page verso.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 206-219) and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Driskell, David C. Two centuries of Black American art.

ISBN:

0875870708

9780875870700

039440887X

9780394408873

0394732480

9780394732480

OCLC:

2318292