The art of history : African American women artists engage the past
Entry/Object ID
N6538.N5.C6 2002
Description
"In this lively and engaging book, Lisa Gail Collins examines the work of contemporary African American women artists. Her study comes at a time when an unprecedented number of these artists—photographers, filmmakers, painters, installation and mixed-media artists—have garnered the attention and imagination of the art-viewing public. To better understand the significance of this particular historical moment in American visual arts, Collins focuses on four 'problems' that recur when these artists confront their histories: the documentation of truth; the status of the black female body; the relationship between art and cultural contact and change; and the relationship between art and black girlhood. By examining the social and cultural histories which African American women artists engage, Collins illuminates a dialogue between past and present imagemakers."
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Search Terms
african american art, african american women artists, african americans in art, black people in art
Legacy Lexicon
Category
Book
Book Details
Author
Lisa Gail Collins
Publisher
Rutgers University Press
Place Published
City
New Brunswick, NJ
Date Published
2002
ISBN
0813530229
Notes
Length: 161
General Notes
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Contents
Note
1. A Visual Paradox: Art and Aesthetics in African American Thought -- 2. Historic Retrievals: Confronting Visual Evidence and the Imaging of Truth -- 3. Economies of the Flesh: Representing the Black Female Body in Art -- 4. Visible Roots and Visual Routes: Art, Africanisms, and the Sea Islands -- 5. Brown Crayons and Black Dolls: The Art of Coming of Age.
