The Harmon And Harriet Kelley Collection Of African American Art

Author : Harmon Kelley,Douglas K. S Hyland,Gylbert Coker,Corrine Jennings,San Antonio Museum of Art
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015031825444

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The Harmon and Harriet Kelley Collection of African American Art by Harmon Kelley,Douglas K. S Hyland,Gylbert Coker,Corrine Jennings,San Antonio Museum of Art Pdf

." . . this collection has a narrative and descriptive thrust that is centered on the social and economic history of African Americans in the United States and presents a kaleidoscopic view of Black life and cultural history. The insistent integrity of the works included reflects a deep understanding of African American social values and celebrates with pride both a humble and a noble existence." -- Corrine Jennings African American art is reaching a wider audience today than ever before, as major exhibitions tour museums around the country. Inspired by the exhibit Hidden Heritage: Afro-American Art, 1800-1950, Harmon and Harriet Kelley began collecting African American art in 1987 and have amassed a collection that represents a broad range of genres and artists from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Profusely illustrated with color and black-and-white plates, this catalog accompanies a traveling exhibition of the Kelley collection, comprised of 124 works by 70 artists, including Edward M. Bannister, Elizabeth Catlett, William H. Johnson, Emma Lee Moss, Charles E. Porter, Henry O. Tanner, and Dox Thrash. Essays on "Nineteenth-Century African American Art," "Twentieth-Century Artists," and "American Art and the Black Folk Artist" build an illuminating context for the works, restoring them to their rightful places in the history of American art.

Author : Bruce Altshuler
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2013-10-24
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781400849352

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Collecting the New by Bruce Altshuler Pdf

Collecting the New is the first book on the questions and challenges that museums face in acquiring and preserving contemporary art. Because such art has not yet withstood the test of time, it defies the traditional understanding of the art museum as an institution that collects and displays works of long-established aesthetic and historical value. By acquiring such art, museums gamble on the future. In addition, new technologies and alternative conceptions of the artwork have created special problems of conservation, while social, political, and aesthetic changes have generated new categories of works to be collected. Following Bruce Altshuler's introduction on the European and American history of museum collecting of art by living artists, the book comprises newly commissioned essays by twelve distinguished curators representing a wide range of museums. First considered are general issues including the acquisition process, and collecting by universal survey museums and museums that focus on modern and contemporary art. Following are groups of essays that address collecting in particular media, including prints and drawings, new (digital) media, and film and video; and national- and ethnic-specific collecting (contemporary art from Asia, Africa, and Latin America, and African-American art). The closing essay examines the conservation problems created by contemporary works--for example, what is to be done when deterioration is the artist's intent? The contributors are Christophe Cherix, Vishakha N. Desai, Steve Dietz, Howard N. Fox, Chrissie Iles and Henriette Huldisch, Pamela McClusky, Gabriel Pérez-Barreiro, Lowery Stokes Sims, Robert Storr, Jeffrey Weiss, and Glenn Wharton.

Author : Robert J. Chandler
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2014-01-29
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780806145259

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San Francisco Lithographer by Robert J. Chandler Pdf

Grafton Tyler Brown—whose heritage was likely one-eighth African American—finessed his way through San Francisco society by passing for white. Working in an environment hostile to African American achievement, Brown became a successful commercial artist and businessman in the rough-and-tumble gold rush era and the years after the Civil War. Best known for his bird’s-eye cityscapes, he also produced and published maps, charts, and business documents, and he illustrated books, sheet music, advertisements, and labels for cans and other packaging. This biography by a distinguished California historian gives an underappreciated artist and his work recognition long overdue. Focusing on Grafton Tyler Brown’s lithography and his life in nineteenth-century San Francisco, Robert J. Chandler offers a study equally fascinating as a business and cultural history and as an introduction to Brown the artist. Chandler’s contextualization of Brown’s career goes beyond the issue of race. Showing how Brown survived and flourished as a businessman, Chandler offers unique insight into the growth of printing and publishing in California and the West. He examines the rise of lithography, its commercial and cultural importance, and the competition among lithographic companies. He also analyzes Brown’s work and style, comparing it to the products of rival firms. Brown was not respected as a fine artist until after his death. Collectors of western art and Americana now recognize the importance of Californiana and of Brown’s work, some of which depicts Portland and the Pacific Northwest, and they will find Chandler’s checklist, descriptions, and reproductions of Brown’s ephemera—including billheads and maps—as uniquely valuable as Chandler’s contribution to the cultural and commercial history of California. In an afterword, historian Shirley Ann Wilson Moore discusses the circumstances and significance of passing in nineteenth-century America.

Author : Sharon F. Patton
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Art
ISBN : 0192842137

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African-American Art by Sharon F. Patton Pdf

Discusses African American folk art, decorative art, photography, and fine arts.

Author : Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 968 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0674002768

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The Harvard Guide to African-American History by Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham Pdf

Compiles information and interpretations on the past 500 years of African American history, containing essays on historical research aids, bibliographies, resources for womens' issues, and an accompanying CD-ROM providing bibliographical entries.

Author : Grant Hill
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Art
ISBN : 082233318X

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Something All Our Own by Grant Hill Pdf

Grant Hill and experts celebrate and examine the creative expression of African American art and artists.

Author : Daniel J. Frye
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Art
ISBN : 0810837226

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African American Visual Artists by Daniel J. Frye Pdf

A guide to resources for use with K-12 students, this selective volume lists substantial, easily accessible resources on African-American visual artists. In total, 639 resources, referencing 1,174 individual artists are annotated and include works about the artists as well as the contexts in which the artist is situated. The publications are generally contemporary sources (after 1981), but earlier materials do exist, providing a baseline for the study of African-American art and its historical development. An introductory essay documents the successes and struggles of African-Americans in the art world followed by detailed annotations, which are arranged in five sections: General, Survey, Children's Books, Artists, and Artist Groups and Movements. The General, Survey, and Children's Books annotations provide important information including the author name, publication date, title, publisher, and an overview of contents. The Artists and Artist Groups and Movements sections function as indexes to the previous three sections. A final section lists addresses of institutions that hold important African- American art collections.

Author : Julie L. McGee
Publisher : Pomegranate
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Art
ISBN : 0764937472

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David C. Driskell by Julie L. McGee Pdf

In this inquiry into Driskell's life and work, art historian McGee analyzes Driskell's philosophical struggles as he sought to both express his feelings about racial strife in America and stay true to his art.

Author : David Acton,Norman Lewis
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2015-11-13
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780520288003

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Procession by David Acton,Norman Lewis Pdf

This beautifully illustrated catalogue accompanies the first major museum retrospective of the painter Norman Lewis (1909Ð1979). Lewis was the sole African American artist of his generation who became committed to issues of abstraction at the start of his career and continued to explore them over its entire trajectory. His art derived inspiration from music (jazz and classical) and nature (seasonal change, plant forms, the sea). Also central to his work were the dramatic confrontations of the civil rights movement, in which he was an active participant among the New York art scene. Bridging the Harlem Renaissance, Abstract Expressionism, and beyond, Lewis is a crucial figure in American abstraction whose reinsertion into the discourse further opens the field for recognition of the contributions of artists of color. Bringing much-needed attention to LewisÕs output and significance in the history of American art, Procession is a milestone in Lewis scholarship and a vital resource for future study of the artist and abstraction in his period. Published in association with Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia. Exhibition dates: Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia: November 13, 2015ÐApril 3, 2016 Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth: June 4ÐAugust 21, 2016 Chicago Cultural Center: September 17, 2016ÐJanuary 8, 2017 Ê

Author : Richard J. Powell,David A. Bailey,Hayward Gallery
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780520212688

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Rhapsodies in Black by Richard J. Powell,David A. Bailey,Hayward Gallery Pdf

Rhapsodies in Black takes a fresh look at the Harlem artistic renaissance, contesting narrow interpretations of the movement and recognising its global significance.

Author : William Edward Taylor,Harriet Garcia Warkel
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : African American art
ISBN : 0936260629

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A Shared Heritage by William Edward Taylor,Harriet Garcia Warkel Pdf

"... highly recommended... " --Choice This handsomely illustrated catalog presents the work of four African American artists with shared Indiana roots--John Wesley Hardrick, William Majors, William Edouard Scott, and Hale Aspacio Woodruff. Their art, ranging from impressionism and social realism to cubism and abstract expressionism, spans the major trends in 20th-century American art, while reflecting the artists' experiences as blacks in America.

Author : Derrel B. DePasse
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Art
ISBN : 1578062489

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Traveling the Rainbow by Derrel B. DePasse Pdf

Reveals how the artist recorded his memories of the American railroad and the traveling circus as landscapes.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : African American art
ISBN : UOM:39015042490014

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The International Review of African American Art by Anonim Pdf

Author : Aaron Douglas,Renée Ater
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2007-01-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 0300135920

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Aaron Douglas by Aaron Douglas,Renée Ater Pdf

Author : Albert Sperath,Margaret R. Vendryes,Steven H. Jones,Eva King
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2014-11-04
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780813160474

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The Art of Ellis Wilson by Albert Sperath,Margaret R. Vendryes,Steven H. Jones,Eva King Pdf

From the tobacco fields of western Kentucky to the streets of Harlem, from the Gullah Islands off the South Carolina and Georgia coasts to the all-black republic of Haiti, painter Ellis Wilson (1899-1977) examined the scope and depth of black culture. One of Kentucky's most significant African American artists, Wilson graduated from the Art Institute of Chicago in 1923. He spent five more years in the city before moving to New York, where he lived for the rest of his life. Aside from his participation in the WPA's Federal Arts Project and a Guggenheim Fellowship, he was never able to support himself fully by painting. Yet his work has long been praised for its boldness and individuality. Black workers were a favorite subject: field hands, factory workers, loggers, fishermen, and more. Of his 1940s series of black factory employees, Wilson stated, "That was the first time I had ever seen my people working in industry, so I painted them." Over time his documentary style gave way to one that emphasized shape and color over pure representation. Despite exhibitions in New York and elsewhere, Wilson considered a small show at the public library in his hometown of Mayfield in 1947 to be "one of the high points" of his life. This catalog accompanies the first major retrospective of Wilson's paintings.