African-American Art

ISBN-13: 9780192842138 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 320 str.

Center for Afroamerican and African Stu Sharon F. (Director

Opis

From its origins in early eighteenth century slave communities to the end of the twentieth century, African-American art has made a vital co ntribution to the art of the United States. African-American Art provi des a major reassessment of the subject, setting the art in the contex t of the African-American experience. Here, Patton discusses folk and decorative arts such as ceramics, furniture, and quilts alongside fine art, sculptures, paintings, and photography during the 1800s. She als o examines the New Negro Movement of the 1920s, the era of Civil Right s and Black Nationalism during the 1960s and 70s, and the emergence of new black artists and theorists in the 1980s and 90s.

Recenzje

Sharon Patton has written a much needed text which surveys the broad scope of the history of African-American art from slavery to the present. She has followed a different tack, tracing art themes and their development throughout the history, rather than the influences of specific artists or periods. Thus, she shows how ideas such as crafts, formal painting and sculpture, or architecture, co-existed with equal importance to the culture from the times of the Colonies. In so doing, she breaks down the barrier between folk and formal art, and articulates an interrelationship of both concepts to African-American people and their culture. Her book expands the framework for the visual arts in the United States in the last two centuries.

O autorze

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