African-American art /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford :
Oxford University Press,
©1998.
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| Series: | Oxford history of art
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| Online Access: | http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=22952 |
Table of Contents:
- Ch. 1. Colonial America and the Young Republic 1700-1820. Plantations. The revival of African culture on the plantations. A planter's house in Louisiana. Plantation slave artists and craftsmen. Urban slave artists and craftsmen
- Ch. 2. Nineteenth-Century America, the Civil War and Reconstruction. Architecture, the decorative arts, and folk art. Fine arts: Painting, sculpture, and graphic arts
- Ch. 3. Twentieth-Century America and Modern Art 1900-60. African-American culture, the New Negro and art in the 1920s. The patronage of the New Negro artist. State funding and the rise of African-American art. American culture post World War II. Abstract Expressionism and African-American art
- Ch. 4. Twentieth-Century America: The Evolution of a Black Aesthetic. Cultural crisis: Black artist or American artist? The evolution of a modern black aesthetic. Art institutions and artists' groups. Towards a new abstraction. The postmodern condition 1980-93.