Title:	African American Visual Arts
Authors:	Celeste-Marie, Bernier Simon Newman
Keywords:	African American Visual Arts
Issue Date:	2008
Publisher:	Edinburgh University
Description:	I have written this book with the aim of breathing fresh life into African American art history by focusing upon the aesthetic issues and experimental practices of artists working across a long time frame and a diverse range of media. Emerging during slavery and surviving on down through to a post-civil rights era, black visual arts have taken many forms including mural, portrait, landscape and abstract painting; sculpture; daguerreotyping and photography; pottery, quilting and collage; assemblage, installation, street and performance art. Despite their many and important differences, it is possible to trace thematic and formal continuities across this vast body of works produced by African American artists living and working in the United States. Many artists have repeatedly pushed the boundaries of media and materials in the search for a visual language which would represent the difficult realities of African American struggles for existence. For so many early artists emerging during slavery in particular, the act of sculpting, painting or quilting in and of itself constituted a radical act of self-expression and resistance.
URI:	http://10.6.20.12:80/handle/123456789/9050
ISBN:	978 0 7486 2356 3
Appears in Collections:	African Studies

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