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African-American art / Sharon F. Patton.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Oxford history of artPublication details: Oxford : Oxford University Press, �1998.Description: 1 online resource (319 pages) : illustrations (some color)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780191586101
  • 0191586102
  • 0585219052
  • 9780585219059
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: African-American art.DDC classification:
  • 704.03/96/073 21
LOC classification:
  • N6538.N5 P38 1998eb
NLM classification:
  • 704.0396 P322a
Other classification:
  • 20.54
  • HD 575
  • LO 94000
  • J171.209
Online resources:
Contents:
Ch. 1. Colonial America and the Young Republic 1700-1820. Plantations. The revival of African culture on the plantations. A planter's house in Louisiana. Plantation slave artists and craftsmen. Urban slave artists and craftsmen -- Ch. 2. Nineteenth-Century America, the Civil War and Reconstruction. Architecture, the decorative arts, and folk art. Fine arts: Painting, sculpture, and graphic arts -- Ch. 3. Twentieth-Century America and Modern Art 1900-60. African-American culture, the New Negro and art in the 1920s. The patronage of the New Negro artist. State funding and the rise of African-American art. American culture post World War II. Abstract Expressionism and African-American art -- Ch. 4. Twentieth-Century America: The Evolution of a Black Aesthetic. Cultural crisis: Black artist or American artist? The evolution of a modern black aesthetic. Art institutions and artists' groups. Towards a new abstraction. The postmodern condition 1980-93.
Summary: Discusses African American folk art, decorative art, photography, and fine arts.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 274-299) and index.

Ch. 1. Colonial America and the Young Republic 1700-1820. Plantations. The revival of African culture on the plantations. A planter's house in Louisiana. Plantation slave artists and craftsmen. Urban slave artists and craftsmen -- Ch. 2. Nineteenth-Century America, the Civil War and Reconstruction. Architecture, the decorative arts, and folk art. Fine arts: Painting, sculpture, and graphic arts -- Ch. 3. Twentieth-Century America and Modern Art 1900-60. African-American culture, the New Negro and art in the 1920s. The patronage of the New Negro artist. State funding and the rise of African-American art. American culture post World War II. Abstract Expressionism and African-American art -- Ch. 4. Twentieth-Century America: The Evolution of a Black Aesthetic. Cultural crisis: Black artist or American artist? The evolution of a modern black aesthetic. Art institutions and artists' groups. Towards a new abstraction. The postmodern condition 1980-93.

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

English.

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