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The text leans on musical traditions from blues to rap and is inclusive of artworks from throughout the African Diaspora. It offers a look at artworks by black artists in several genres including painting, sculpture, and video. Powellīlack Art: A Cultural History provides a comprehensive look at visual representation of black culture throughout the twentieth century and early twenty-first century.

Black Art: A Cultural History by Richard J. Robert Farris Thompson has been a professor at Yale University since 1965 who specializes in African and the Afro-Atlantic world. The rhythmic prose that make up the text are a poetic telling of a white man who had immersed himself in the aforementioned cultures for significant amounts of time in order to feel out the influences these civilizations had on African Diasporic cultures. Flash of the Spirit: African & Afro-American Art & Philosophy by Robert Farris Thompsonįlash of the Spirit looks at five African civilizations, Yoruba, Kongo, Ejagham, Mande and Cross River, that have an impact on African American and other African Diasporic cultures through their music, textile, architecture, and religion. And the second part allows for African American women artists to be placed among the larger art world. The first part of the book is dedicated to those movements that are particularly African American like the Harlem Renaissance and Black Power Movement. Though this book is about African American women artists, the author is sure to maintain traditional art historical categorization where she places the work of black women participating in them. Farrington starts with depictions of black women - negative and laudatory. FarringtonĬreating Their Own Image is a comprehensive look at the contributions of African American women artists from the time of slavery up until the new millennium. Creating Their Own Image: The History of African American Women Artists by Lisa E. Porter was an art historian and professor at Howard University for more than forty years. Duncanson, Edomonia Lewis, Jacob Lawrence, and Henry O. While the art of the Harlem Renaissance is revered by many, Porter discusses the contributions of African American artists before then. This text allows for the work of African American artist to be placed in the larger American art context. First published in 1943, this text chronicles the artistry of African Americans from Pre-Civil War Days to the Second World War. Modern Negro Art is the first book solely about African American art.

By Shantay Robinson Modern Negro Art by James A.

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