African-American Art,9780192842138

African-American Art

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ISBN13: 9780192842138
ISBN10: 0192842137
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 1998-06-25
Publisher(s): Oxford University Press
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Summary

From its origins in early 18th century slave communities to the end of the 20th century, African-American art has made a vital contribution to the art of the United States. This book provides a major reassessment of the subject, setting the art in the context of the African-American experience. 70 color illustrations. 5 linecuts.

Author Biography


Sharon Patton is Director of the Center for Afroamerican and African Studies, and Associate Professor in History at the University of Michigan.

Table of Contents

Introduction 11(8)
Chapter 1 Colonial America and the Young Republic 1700-1820
19(32)
Introduction
19(6)
The fight for independence 1775-83
21(3)
Africa, North America and African-American culture
24(1)
Plantations
25(5)
Architecture and the plantation layout
28(1)
Slave houses
28(2)
The revival of African culture on the plantations
30(2)
Life on the plantations
30(2)
New European-American influences
32(1)
A planter's house in Louisiana
32(2)
Plantation slave artists and craftsmen
34(6)
Textiles and patchwork quilts
36(1)
Folk art
37(1)
Pottery
38(2)
Urban slave artists and craftsmen
40(11)
Furniture
41(1)
Silversmiths
41(1)
Fine artists
42(9)
Chapter 2 Nineteenth-Century America, the Civil War and Reconstruction
51(54)
Introduction
51(7)
The anti-slavery movement
55(1)
Free black and slave artisans
55(2)
Fine artists
57(1)
Architecture, the decorative arts, and folk art
58(13)
Urban and rural architecture
58(2)
Furniture
60(3)
Metalwork and woodcarving
63(1)
Pottery
64(3)
Quilts
67(4)
Fine arts: Painting, sculpture, and graphic arts
71(34)
Exhibitions and the viewing public
71(3)
Abolitionist patronage
74(3)
Graphic arts
77(2)
Landscape painting
79(10)
Neoclassical sculpture
89(9)
Genre and biblical painting
98(7)
Chapter 3 Twentieth-Century America and Modern Art 1900-60
105(78)
Introduction
105(5)
Civil rights and double-consciousness
105(2)
The development of a modern American art
107(3)
African-American culture, the New Negro and art in the 1920s
110(15)
The Great Migration
110(1)
The Jazz Age
111(1)
Expatriates and Paris, the Negro Colony
112(1)
The New Negro movement
113(1)
Photography
114(1)
The New Negro artist
114(2)
Graphic art
116(4)
Painting
120(5)
The patronage of the New Negro artist
125(1)
State funding and the rise of African-American art
126(33)
The Federal Arts Project
126(1)
The legacy of the New Negro movement
127(1)
Negritude and figurative sculpture
128(4)
Folk art
132(3)
American Scene painting
135(4)
African-American murals
139(6)
WPA workshops and community art centres
145(3)
Social realism
148(2)
Abstract art and modernism in New York
150(1)
Abstract figurative painting
150(6)
Patronage and critical debate
156(3)
American culture post World War II
159(6)
Folk art
160(1)
Painting: Expressionism and Surrealism
160(5)
Abstract Expressionism and African-American art
165(18)
Primitivism
165(2)
Early Abstract Expressionism: Bearden, Woodruff, and Alston
167(4)
Abstract Expressionism
171(5)
Second generation of Abstract Expressionists 1955-61
176(7)
Chapter 4 Twentieth-Century America: The Evolution of a Black Aesthetic
183(91)
Introduction
183(2)
Civil rights and black nationalism
183(2)
Cultural crisis: Black artist or American artist?
185(8)
Spiral artists' group 1963-6
185(5)
Painting
190(3)
The evolution of a modern black aesthetic
193(17)
Defining black art
194(1)
Painting
195(5)
Sculpture
200(10)
Art institutions and artists' groups
210(7)
Mainstream art institutions
210(2)
Black art aesthetics
212(1)
Black art and black power
213(1)
Black artists' groups
214(3)
Towards a new abstraction
217(15)
Are you black enough?
217(3)
Painting
220(10)
Sculpture
230(2)
The postmodern condition 1980-93
232(35)
Painting
236(12)
Video art
248(2)
Sculpture
250(13)
Photography
263(4)
Conclusion
267(7)
Notes 274(3)
List of Illustrations
277(6)
Bibliographic Essay 283(17)
Timeline 300(10)
Index 310

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