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Creating Their Own Image
Creating Their Own Image marks the first comprehensive history of African-American women artists, from slavery to the present day. Using an analysis of stereotypes of Africans and African-Americans in western art and culture as a springboard, Lisa E. Farrington here richly details hundreds ofimportant works--many of which deliberately challenge these same identity myths, of the carnal Jezebel, the asexual Mammy, the imperious Matriarch--in crafting a portrait of artistic creativity unprecedented in its scope and ambition. In these lavishly illustrated pages, some of which feature imagesnever before published, we learn of the efforts of Elizabeth Keckley, fashion designer to Mary Todd Lincoln...
African-American Art
African-American Art: A Visual and Cultural History offers a current and comprehensive history that contextualizes black artists within the framework of American art as a whole. The first chronological survey covering all art forms from colonial times to the present to publish in over a decade, it explores issues of racial identity and representation in artistic expression, while also emphasizing aesthetics and visual analysis to help students develop an understanding and appreciation of African-American art that is informed but not entirely defined by racial identity. Through a carefully selected collection of creative works and accompanying analyses, the text also addresses crucial gaps in...
Faith Ringgold
This is an important new book published to coincide with a major exhibition of Faith Tinggold's new work and Studio collection. While the book explores Faith's work in her studio and her personal artistic journey, it is also an encounter between one artist and another, between Faith and her collaborator Curlee Holton. The mix provides unique insights into the struggles and triumphs of a woman who is at once an activist and an artist and whose achievements are admired throughout the world.
Art on Fire
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African-American Art
Discusses African American folk art, decorative art, photography, and fine arts.
Skin Deep, Spirit Strong
Traces the evolution of the black female body in the American imagination
Timothy J. Clark
Timothy J. Clark is the internationally acclaimed watercolorist, art instructor, and author of Focus on Watercolor (Watson-Guptill), a popular hardcover book devoted to developing skills and techniques for producing masterful watercolor paintings. Clark is also well known for the PBS series Focus on Watercolor. The book features text by Jean Stern, director of the Irvine Museum, a recognized authority on California art, and by scholar, educator, curator, historian, and author Lisa E. Farrington, Ph.D., who occupies the 2007-2009 William and Camille Cosby Endowed Chair at Atlanta University's Spelman College.
African American Language
A pioneering 20-year longitudinal study of 67 African American children that illuminates how and why language changes in childhood.
Raggin' on
Through this catalog, readers will experience Aminah Robinson's amazing house, her art, and her profuse journals. In them, as was so often the case, she succinctly defined the importance of art in general and of her relationship with the Columbus Museum of Art.
