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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...

This introduction to postmodernism offers a comprehensive examination of postmodern theory and its application to the study of society. It surveys the work of theorists and explores the potential and limits of postmodern analysis across key areas of development, including deconstruction, semiotics, the new ethnography and feminist theory. This guide should be suitable as an undergraduate text for social and cultural theory courses and should appeal to students of social research methods.