Sharon F. Patton (Center for Afroamerican Director and African Stu

African-American Art

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Produktbeschreibung

In the OXFORD HISTORY OF ART series, this book discusses folk and decorative arts alongside fine art produced by African-Americans throughout the nineteenth century. It also explores more recent issues in art and politics - the Civil Rights era and Black Nationalism in the 1960s and 70s and the emergence of new black artists in the 1980s and 90s.

Produktdetails

• Oxford History of Art
• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. April 1998
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 237mm x 168mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 528g
• ISBN-13: 9780192842138
• ISBN-10: 0192842137
• Artikelnr.: 21532077

Autorenporträt

Sharon F. Patton is Director of the Center for Afroamerican and African Studies and Associate Professor of Art History at the University of Michigan.

Inhaltsangabe

* Introduction
* Chapter 1: Colonial America and the Young Republic 1700-1820:
* Introduction: The fight for independence 1775-83; Africa, North
America, and African American Culture
* Plantations: Architecture and the plantation layout; Slave houses
* The revival of African culture on the plantations: Life on the
plantations; New European-American influences
* A Planter's house in Louisiana - Plantation slave artists and
craftsmen: Textiles and patchwork quilts; Folk art; Pottery
* Urban Slave Artists and Craftsmen: Furniture; Silversmiths; Fine
artists
* Chapter 2: Nineteenth-Century America, The Civil War and
Reconstruction:
* Introduction: The anti-slavery movement; Free black and slave
artisans; Fine artists
* Architecture, the decorative arts, and folk art: Urban and rural
Architecture; Furniture; Metalwork and woodcarving; Pottery; Quilts
* Fine arts: Painting, sculpture, and graphic arts: Exhibitions and the
viewing public; Abolitionist patronage; Graphic arts; Landscape
painting; Neoclassical sculpture; Genre and biblical painting
* Chapter 3: Twentieth-Century America and Modern Art 1900-60:
* Introduction: Civil rights and double-consciousness; The development
of a modern American art
* African-American culture, the New Negro and art in the 1920s: The
Great Migration; The Jazz Age; Expatriates and Paris, the Negro
colony; The New Negro movement; Photography; The New Negro artist;
Graphic art; Painting
* The patronage of the New Negro Artist
* State Funding and the Rise of African-American Art: The Federal Arts
Project; The legacy of the New Negro movement: Negritude and
figurative sculpture; Folk art; American Scene painting;
African-American murals; WPA Workshops and community art centres;
Social realism; Abstract art and modernism in New York; Abstract
figurative painting; Patronage and critical debate
* American culture post World War II: Folk art; Painting: Expressionism
and Surrealism
* Abstract Expressionism and African-American Art: Primitivism; Early
Abstract Expressionism: Bearden, Woodruff, and Alston; Abstract
Expressionism; Second generation of Abstract Expressionists 1955-61
* Chapter 4: Twentieth-Century America: The Evolution of a Black
Aesthetic:
* Introduction: Civil rights and black nationalism
* Cultural crisis: Black artist or American artist: Spiral artist's
group 1964-66; Painting
* The evolution of a modern black aesthetic: Defining black art;
Painting; Sculpture
* Art institutions and the artists' groups: Mainstream art
institutions; Black art aesthetics; Black art and black power; Black
artists' groups
* Towards a New Abstraction: Are you black enough?; Painting; Sculpture
* The Postmodern condition 1980-93: Painting; Video art; Sculpture;
Photography
* Conclusion, Notes, List of Illustrations, Bibliographic Essay,
Timeline, Index