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Accompanying the much-publicized travelling exhibition African American Masters, this book highlights influential and important African American 20th-century artists, from those of the early part of the century to important participants in the Harlem Renaissance, from self-taught and folk artists to urbane modernists, right up to the vigorous contemporary art scene. The text also includes sidebars highlighting individual pictures and creators, completing a wonderful chapter in the history of American art and in African American life and achievement. Published in conjunction with the Smith-sonian American Art Museum, the nation's greatest repository of African American art, the book includes works by Romare Bearden, Roy DeCarava, Betye Saar, and Augusta Savage, among many others. From Faith Ringgold's fabric interpretation of the Harlem Renaissance, to Gordon parks' celebrated 1996 photograph of Muhammad Ali, the paintings, sculptures, and photographs reproduced here reflect the rich and varied experience of African American artists in the 20th century
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Flap: Wake up our Souls explores the lives and creations of a select number of esteemed black men and women who are part of the American art scene yesterday and today.Some of the artists are discussed in detail,while spotlights on others help round out the story.In all, more than thirty artists and their works are celebrated within these pages.Beginning in the late Eighteenth Century with Joshua Johnson,one of the first known professional black artists,the book tells the stories of the triumps achieved and the obstacles faced by his successors over the next two hundred years.Among them are sculptors Augusta Savage and Melvin Edwards: painters Henry Ossawa Tanner and William H Johnson; folk artists Sister Gertrude Morgan and James Hampton; ceramicist Winnie Owen-Hart; and photographers Roy DeCarava and Gordon Parks.
Published in association with the Smithsonian American Art Museum,one of the nation's great repositories of black American art, the book reproduces more than forty-five works along with extended captions and portraits of the artists.Wake Up Our Souls is an intriguing and thoughtful introduction to art by black Americans.
Product Details
ISBN-10: 0810945274
EAN: 9780810945272
Binding: Hardcover
Published Date: February 2004
Publisher: Harry N Abrams
Misc. Category: African American Arts and Artists
Writing Origin: African American
Language: English
Product Dimensions: 1.78 cms x 26.14 cms x 22.48 cms
Number of pages: 128
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