The Routledge companion to African American art history

Format:

Book

Language:

English

Imprint:

New York, NY : Routledge, 2020 and ©2020

Subject:

African American art
African American art - History
Art, American - Historiography

Contributor:

Chambers, Eddie, editor

ISBN:

9781138486553 and 1138486558

Series:

Routledge companions

Description:

xxxiv, 487 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm

Bibliographic Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index

Contents:

Historical framings -- "History must restore what slavery took away" Freeman H.M. Murray, double-consciousness, and the historiography of African American art history / Patricia Hills -- The significance of the interwar decades to scholarship on African American art / Mary Ann Calo -- The enduring relevance of the Harlem Renaissance / Phoebe Wolfskill -- African American art beyond the Harlem Renaissance / John Ott -- African American artists and Mexico / Melanie Anne Herzog -- Caribbean absences in African American art history / Anna Arabindan-Kesson -- The influence of African art on the African American art / Tobias Wofford -- Confessions of an unintended reader: African American art, American art, and the crucible of naming / Kirsten Pai Buick -- On display: the art of African American photography / Tanya Sheehan -- When Black experimentalism became Black Power: the Black Arts Movement and its legacies / Margo Natalie Crawford -- Within the academy -- The Washington renaissance: black artists and modern institutions / John Tyson -- Disturbing categories, remapping knowledge / Tatiana Flores -- The Atlanta University Center: a nucleus of visual art / Andrea Barnwell Brownlee -- African American abstraction / Sarah Lewis -- Within/against: circuits and networks of African American art in California / Mary Thomas -- Black grace: the religious impulse in African American art / Kymberly Pinder -- New negro artists in Paris in the 1920s and 1930s / Theresa Leininger-Miller -- Getting to a baseline on identity politics: the Marxist debate / Nizan Shaked -- African American artists and the community mural movement / Rebecca Zorach -- The South in African American art / Betty J. Crouther -- Curatorial histories and strategies -- New York in/and African American art history / Lesley E. Shipley -- Ain't no stoppin' us now: African American artists in Philadelphia since 1940 / Blake Bradford -- Surveying the presence of self-taught African American artists in American museums / Katherine Jentleson -- Status and presence: African American art in the international arena / Richard Hylton -- Black public art in the United States / Modupe Gloria Labode -- The history of the group exhibition from the Harmon Foundation to Black Male / Nicholas Miller -- Black/folk/art: shapeshifting roles of "the folk" in African American art history / Elaine Y. Yau -- The artist and the archive: African American art / Julie L. McGee -- African American art and the "white cube" / Nika Elder -- "Feeling for my people": visualizing resistance, radicalism, and revolution / Celeste-Marie Bernier -- Historical, modern, and contemporary consideration -- Unruly polyvocality: networks of black performance art / Uri McMillan -- "Can you get to that": the funk of "conceptual-type art" / Leslie Wilson -- Picturing freedom: the legacy of representing black womanhood / Rehema C. Barber -- The printed image: process and influences in African American art / Allan Edmunds -- Queer aesthetics in the history of African American art / Derek Conrad Murray -- African American artists and the art market: a dream deferred / Nigel Freeman -- Black women curators: a brief oral history of the recent past / Kemi Adeyemi -- Breaking ground: constructions of identity in African American art and art history / Rebecca VanDiver -- Post-blackness and new developments in African American art and art history / James Smalls -- African American art history: some concluding considerations / Eddie Chambers

Summary:

"This Companion authoritatively points to the main areas of enquiry within the subject of African American art history. The first section examines how African American art has been constructed over the 70 years of published scholarship. The second section studies how African American art is and has been taught in academia. The third section focuses on how African American art has been reflected in art galleries and museums. The final section opens up understandings of what we mean when we speak of African American art. This book will be of interest to graduate students, researchers and professors and may be used in African American art, visual culture, and culture classes"-- Provided by publisher

Collection:

BGC Monograph Stacks

Call Number:

N6538.B53 R68 2020

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