Book Description
Featuring 140 color illustrations, the catalogue Archibald Motley: Jazz Age Modernist accompanies the first full-scale survey of the work of the American painter and master colorist Archibald Motley (1891-1981).
Author : Richard J. Powell
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 22,22 MB
Release : 2014
Category : African American painting
ISBN : 9780938989370
Featuring 140 color illustrations, the catalogue Archibald Motley: Jazz Age Modernist accompanies the first full-scale survey of the work of the American painter and master colorist Archibald Motley (1891-1981).
Author : Amy M. Mooney
Publisher : Pomegranate Communications
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 44,75 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Art
ISBN :
Extraordinary artist whose social consciousness extended beyond his paintings. Book jacket.
Author : Jontyle Theresa Robinson
Publisher :
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 21,68 MB
Release : 1991
Category : Art
ISBN :
The first book devoted to Archibald J. Motley, Jr. (1891-1981), an important 20th-century African-American artist who captured life in Chicago's Black Belt during the twenties, thirties, and forties.
Author : Phoebe Wolfskill
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 27,89 MB
Release : 2017-08-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0252099702
An essential African American artist of his era, Archibald Motley Jr. created paintings of black Chicago that aligned him with the revisionist aims of the New Negro Renaissance. Yet Motley's approach to constructing a New Negro--a dignified figure both accomplished and worthy of respect--reflected the challenges faced by African American artists working on the project of racial reinvention and uplift. Phoebe Wolfskill demonstrates how Motley's art embodied the tenuous nature of the Black Renaissance and the wide range of ideas that structured it. Focusing on key works in Motley's oeuvre, Wolfskill reveals the artist's complexity and the variety of influences that informed his work. Motley’s paintings suggest that the racist, problematic image of the Old Negro was not a relic of the past but an influence that pervaded the Black Renaissance. Exploring Motley in relation to works by notable black and non-black contemporaries, Wolfskill reinterprets Motley's oeuvre as part of a broad effort to define American cultural identity through race, class, gender, religion, and regional affiliation.
Author : Romare Bearden
Publisher : Pantheon
Page : 600 pages
File Size : 18,28 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Art
ISBN :
A landmark work of art history: lavishly illustrated and extraordinary for its thoroughness, A History of African-American Artists -- conceived, researched, and written by the great American artist Romare Bearden with journalist Harry Henderson, who completed the work after Bearden's death in 1988 -- gives a conspectus of African-American art from the late eighteenth century to the present. It examines the lives and careers of more than fifty signal African-American artists, and the relation of their work to prevailing artistic, social, and political trends both in America and throughout the world. Beginning with a radical reevaluation of the enigma of Joshua Johnston, a late eighteenth-century portrait painter widely assumed by historians to be one of the earliest known African-American artists, Bearden and Henderson go on to examine the careers of Robert S. Duncanson, Edward M. Bannister, Henry Ossawa Tanner, Aaron Douglas, Edmonia Lewis, Jacob Lawrence, Hale A. Woodruff, Augusta Savage, Charles H. Alston, Ellis Wilson, Archibald J. Motley, Jr., Horace Pippin, Alma W. Thomas, and many others. Illustrated with more than 420 black-and-white illustrations and 61 color reproductions -- including rediscovered classics, works no longer extant, and art never before seen in this country -- A History of African-American Artists is a stunning achievement.
Author : Lynne Warren
Publisher : Thames & Hudson
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 44,73 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Art, American
ISBN :
Significant bodies of work in residence there. Among the artists profiled are Roger Brown, Harry Callahan, Ruth Duckworth, Jeanne Dunning, Leon Golub, Robert Heinecken, Richard Hunt, June Leaf, Kerry James Marshall, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, Archibald J. Motley, Jr., Jim Nutt, Ed Paschke, Hirsch Perlman, Martin Puryear, Arnaldo Roche Rabell, Miroslaw Rogala, Alejandro Romero, Kay Rosen, Hollis Sigler, Aaron Siskind, Nancy Spero, Tony Tasset, H.C. Westermann, Claire Zeisler,
Author : Richard J. Powell
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 20,21 MB
Release : 2020-10-02
Category : Art
ISBN : 0300245742
A kaleidoscopic survey of black satire in 20th- and 21st-century American art In this groundbreaking study, Richard J. Powell investigates the visual forms of satire produced by black artists in 20th- and 21st-century America. Underscoring the historical use of visual satire as antiracist dissent and introspective critique, Powell argues that it has a distinctly African American lineage. Taking on some of the most controversial works of the past century—in all their complexity, humor, and provocation—Powell raises important questions about the social power of art. Expansive in both historical reach and breadth of media presented, Going There interweaves discussions of such works as the midcentury cartoons of Ollie Harrington, the installations of Kara Walker, the paintings of Robert Colescott, and the movies of Spike Lee. Other artists featured in the book include David Hammons, Arthur Jafa, Beverly McIver, Howardena Pindell, Betye Saar, and Carrie Mae Weems. Thoroughly researched and rich in context, Going There is essential reading in the history of satire, racial politics, and contemporary art.
Author : Richard J. Powell
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 37,48 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780520212633
Published to accompany exhibition held at the Hayward Gallery, London, 19/6 - 17/8 1997.
Author : Michael D. Harris
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 21,42 MB
Release : 2003
Category : African American art
ISBN : 9780807856963
Colored Pictures: Race and Visual Representation
Author : Robert Bone
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 18,44 MB
Release : 2011
Category : History
ISBN : 0813550432
A dynamic reappraisal of a neglected period in African American cultural history from the early 1930s to the cold war, and the first comprehensive critical study of the creative awakenting that occurred on Chicago's South Side -- from cover.