Black artists in America : from the Great Depression to civil rights

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Author:

Jenkins, Earnestine, author.

Added Author:

Sharp, Kevin, 1957- writer of foreword.

Publication Date:

2021

Publication Information:

Memphis, TN : Dixon Gallery and Gardens ; New Haven, CT : Yale University Press, [2021]

Physical Description:

167 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 29 cm

ISBN:

9780300260908

Abstract:

"Through more than fifty paintings, sculptures, and works on paper, Black Artists in America explores the various ways in which African American artists responded to the political, social, and economic climate of the United States from the time of the Great Depression through the landmark Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka decision"-- Provided by publisher.

General Note:

"This publication was produced in conjunction with the exhibition Black Artists in America: From the Great Depression to Civil Rights, on view at the Dixon Gallery and Gardens, Memphis, from October 17, 2021, through January 2, 2022"--Colophon.

Contents:

Foreword and acknowledgments / Kevin Sharp -- Black artists in America: from the Great Depression to Civil Rights -- Augusta Savage in Paris: African themes and the Black female body -- Walter Augustus Simon: abstract expressionist, art educator, and art historian -- Catalogue of the exhibition.

Personal Subject:

Savage, Augusta, 1892-1962-Exhibitions.

Simon, Walter Augustus, 1916-1979-Exhibitions.

Subject Term:

African American sculptors -- 20th century -- Exhibitions.

African American art -- 20th century -- Exhibitions.

Art, Black -- 20th century -- Exhibitions.

Black people in art.

Women, Black, in art.

Genre:

Exhibition catalogs.

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