A History of African-American Artists: From 1792 to the Present by R. Bearden VG

Description: Bearden, Romare and Harry Henderson (1993). A History of African-American Artists from 1792 to the Present. New York, Pantheon Books. A foundational book for anyone with an interest in the history of African American art. Written by a leading member of the group and an excellent expert in the field, the book cover the entire history from early pioneers to the 1990's and from the famous names to the somewhat obscure artists. [from the book's flaps] 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 o f 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 Hen derson 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, Archi bald 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. ROMARE BEARDEN works have been exhibited throughout the world and are in the permanent collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art the Museum of Modem Art, the Hirshhorn Gallery and the Whitney Museum. Among the many honors he received was the National Medal of Arts in 1987. Bearden died in 1988 at the age of seventy-six. HARRY HENDERSON has written for Collier's, Cosmopolitan, Harper's Reader's Digest, and REdbokk among other magazines and hournals. He previously collaborated with Romare Beardedn on Six Black Master of American Art. Henderson lives in Croton-on-the-Hudson, New York Check out my other listings of African American, African, Oceanic, Native American art and art history, and other regions of world art and cultures for additional rare finds.

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