African-American Art: A Visual and Cultural History

African-American Art: A Visual and Cultural History offers a current and comprehensive history that contextualizes black artists within the framework of American art as a whole. The first chronological survey covering all art forms from colonial times to the present to publish in over a decade, it explores issues of racial identity and representation in artistic expression, while also emphasizing aesthetics and visual analysis to help students develop an understanding and appreciation of African-American art that is informed but not entirely defined by racial identity. Through a carefully selected collection of creative works and accompanying analyses, the text also addresses crucial gaps in the scholarly literature, incorporating women artists from the beginning and including coverage of photography, crafts, and architecture in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries as well as twenty-first century developments. All in all, African American Art: A Visual and Cultural History
offers a fresh and compelling look at the great variety of artistic expression found in the African-American community.

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Author: Lisa Farrington
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 02/11/2016
Pages: 480
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 2.51lbs
Size: 9.90h x 6.90w x 1.10d
ISBN13: 9780199995394
ISBN10: 0199995397
BISAC Categories:
- Art | History | General

About the Author

Lisa Farrington is the founding Chair of the Art & Music Department at the City University of New York's John Jay College. She is the author of Creating Their Own Image: The History of African-American Women Artists (OUP, 2005).