African American visual arts : from slavery to the present / Celeste-Marie Bernier.

Author/creator Bernier, Celeste-Marie
Format Book
Publication InfoChapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©2008.
Descriptionxii, 264 pages, 16 pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 23 cm
Subjects

Contents 'The slave who paints': beginnings and the visual arts tradition -- 'Establishing an art era' in the Harlem renaissance -- Struggle, survival and early abstraction -- 'Images are weapons': history, narrative and a people's art -- 'Art comes to have a life of its own': aesthetics, experimentation and a new visual language -- 'Racist pathology is the muck': towards a transgressive visual poetics.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 234-257) and index.
LCCN 2008012512
ISBN9780807832561 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN0807832561 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN9780807859339 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN0807859338 (pbk. : alk. paper)

Availability

Library Location Call Number Status Item Actions
Joyner General Stacks N 6538.N5 B47 2008 ✔ Available Place Hold