Beholding Christ and Christianity in African American art / edited by James Romaine and Phoebe Wolfskill.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Romaine, James, editor.

Wolfskill, Phoebe, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African American art.

Christian art and symbolism--United States.

Christian art and symbolism.

United States.

Physical Description:

x, 190 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 26 cm

Place of Publication:

University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, [2017]

Summary:

"A collection of essays exploring prominent African American artists' engagement with Christian themes. Essays examine the ways in which an artist's engagement with religious symbols can be an expression of concerns related to racial, political, and socio-economic identity"--Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Propaganda fide : Mary Edmonia Lewis and the Catholic Church / Kirsten Pai Buick

Reading Tanner/recognizing Jesus / James Romaine

The blare of God's trombones : modernizing Biblical narratives in the work of Aaron Douglas / Caroline Goeser

The sight of black folks : Malvin Gray Johnson's spiritual paintings in interwar America / Jacqueline Francis

Christianity and class in the work of Archibald J. Motley Jr. / Phoebe Wolfskill

The aesthetics of transcendence : William H. Johnson's Jesus and the three Marys / Amy K. Hamlin

Sculpting the spirit and the flesh : the religious works of James Richmond Barthé / James Smalls

Allan Rohan Crite's (re)visioning of the spirituals / Julie Levin Caro

Sister Gertrude Morgan and the materials of visionary art / Elaine Y. Yau

"A tried stone" : community, conversion, and Christ in the sculpture of William Edmondson / Edward M. Puchner

Biblical and spiritual motifs in the art of Horace Pippin / Richard J. Powell

Assimilation and aspiration : the urbanity of faith in James VanDerZee's representations of religion / Carla Williams

Deep waters : rebirth, transcendence, and abstraction in Romare Bearden's Passion of Christ / Kymberly N. Pinder

Creating history, establishing a canon : Jacob Lawrence's The first book of Moses, called Genesis / Kristin Schwain.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780271077741

0271077743

OCLC:

961923848