From musings on the "the souls of black folk" in early twentieth-century painting, sculpture, and photography to questions of racial and cultural identities in performance, media, and computer-assisted arts in the 1990s, the book draws on the works of hundreds of artists including Jean-Michel Basquiat, Romare Bearden, Elizabeth Catlett, Lois Mailou Jones, Wifredo Lam, Jacob Lawrence, Spike Lee, Archibald Motley, Jr., Faith Ringgold, and Gerard Sekoto This revised edition includes expanded coverage of video art and a new chapter that discusses work by a number of artists who have newly risen...
From musings on the "the souls of black folk" in early twentieth-century painting, sculpture, and photography to questions of racial and cultural iden...