Dimensions of Black. [Exhibition] La Jolla Museum of Art, February 15-March 29, 1970. / Jehanne Teilhet, editor.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Teilhet-Fisk, Jehanne, editor.

Seldes, Henry J., 1925-1978, writer of introduction.

La Jolla Museum of Art.

University of California, San Diego.

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

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Art, Black--Exhibitions.

Art, Black.

Art--Africa, West.

Art.

Art, European--Black influences.

Art, European.

Exhibitions.

West Africa.

Genre:

Catalogs.

Penn Provenance:

Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)

Physical Description:

vi pages, 1 unnumbered page, 154 pages, 1 unnumbered page. : illustrations, map. ; 23 x 26 cm

Place of Publication:

[San Diego?], [publisher not identified], [1970]

Contents:

Preface / John Stewart

Preface / Jehanne Teilhet

Introduction / Henry Seldis

Africa. Introduction / Peter Waasdorp; Dogon / Vicki Hausa; Bambara / Mike Zarnowitz; Baga / David Gong; Mende / Vicki Hausa; Dan / Carol Funk; Ashanti / Tom Doty; Fon / Stephen Schauss; Yoruba / Stuart Reder; Benin / Kim McKinnis; Ibo / Kim McKinnis; Cameroons / Carol Funk; Cosmic harmony of traditional african culture / Ed Friedman

Slavery / Stephen Colins

Slave art / John McEllhose, Stephen Schauss

Vodoun / Stephen Schauss

Religion / Irwin Davidson

Reconstruction / Albert Richardson

Migrration and Early artists / James Clayton, Debbie Butterfield

Europe. Introduction / Robert Stearns; Picasso / Lila Steiner, Robert Kushner, Brian Lawton; Matisse Brian Lawton, Patty Smith; German Expressionists / Robert Stearns, Laura Stokes, Linda Peck, Vyvyanne Terada; Ernst / Jimmis Oxley; Lipchitz / Robert Kushner; Moore / Robert Stearns

America. Negro Renaissance Artists / Debbie Butterfield; Negro Renaissance Writers / Clare Crane; Malyndia Washington; Black Liberation / Sidney Glass, Mildred Hayes, Manuel Myers; Contemporary Black Art / Debbie Butterfield; Epilogue / Dr. Samella Lewis.

Notes:

The exhibition and this catalog result from a student project of the University of California, San Diego.

"Catalogue: Robert Stearns, Robert Kushner."

"Dimensions" is printed upside down on in white on black paper; "Of Black" is printed on reflective paper facing it.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 150-153).

Local Notes:

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

Banks Collection copy was previously a copy of the Public Library of the District of Columbia with stamps and markings.

OCLC:

118760