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African American Visual Arts: From Slavery to the Present
Contributor(s): Bernier, Celeste-Marie (Author)

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 ISBN: 0807859338     ISBN-13: 9780807859339
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
OUR PRICE: $40.38  

Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: January 2009
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BISAC Categories:
- Art | American - African American
- Art | History - General
- Social Science | Ethnic Studies - African American Studies
Dewey: 700.899
LCCN: 2008012512
Physical Information: 0.65" H x 5.54" W x 8.4" L (0.82 lbs) 320 pages
Themes:
- Ethnic Orientation - African American
Features: Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Table of Contents
Review Citations: Choice 02/01/2009
 
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Publisher Description:
In African American Visual Arts Celeste-Marie Bernier introduces readers to the sheer diversity, range, and experimental nature of African American art and artists and considers their relationship to key motifs within black culture and black experience in North America. The book traces the major developments in African American visual culture from its beginnings in the ceramics and textiles of slave artisans to later contributions in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries to the fine arts and abstract expressionism, sculpture, installation art, video art, and computer graphics.

Bernier analyzes the work of twenty-one artists, including Elizabeth Catlett, Jacob Lawrence, William Edmondson, Howardena Pindell, Charles Alston, Romare Bearden, Norman Lewis, Betye Saar, Horace Pippin, and Kara Walker. She highlights key but frequently neglected and little-discussed black artists, situating their works within their specific historical and political contexts. Bernier provides a new understanding of their relationship to fundamental themes of the black experience such as black stereotyping and caricature in mainstream discourse, poverty in the inner city, and the division between the rural and the urban.


Contributor Bio(s): Bernier, Celeste-Marie: - Celeste-Marie Bernier is lecturer in American literature at the University of Nottingham.
 
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