Romare Bearden in the homeland of his imagination : an artist's reckoning with the South / Glenda Elizabeth Gilmore.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gilmore, Glenda Elizabeth, author.

Contributor:

Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bearden, Romare, 1911-1988.

Bearden, Romare.

Bearden, Romare, 1911-1988--Family.

African American artists--Biography.

African American artists.

African American artists--Southern States.

Middle class African Americans.

Families.

Southern States.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

xi, 160 pages : illustrations(chiefly color), color map ; 27 cm

Place of Publication:

Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2022]

Summary:

"Romare Bearden (1911-1988), one of the most prolific, original, and acclaimed American artists of the twentieth century, richly depicted scenes and figures rooted in the American South and the Black experience. Bearden hailed from North Carolina but was forced to relocate to the North when a white mob harassed [his family] in the 1910s. His family story is a compelling, complicated saga of Black middle-class achievement in the face of relentless waves of white supremacy. It is also a narrative of the generational trauma that slavery and racism inflicted over decades. But as Glenda Gilmore reveals in this trenchant reappraisal of Bearden's life and art, his work reveals his deep imagination, extensive training and rich knowledge of art history"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: ch. 1 Love in Slavery and Freedom

ch. 2 Home and Away

ch. 3 The Price of the Ticket

ch. 4 Bearden's Harlem Renaissance

ch. 5 Lost in Abstraction

ch. 6 From Darkness to Light

ch. 7 Round-Trip Ticket.

Notes:

"A Ferris and Ferris book"--Title page.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

ISBN:

9781469667867

146966786X

OCLC:

1266896340