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A History of African-American Artists: From 1792 to the Present
	Authors: Romare Bearden, Harry Henderson Publisher: Pantheon Category: Book List Price: ~~$75.00~~ Buy Used: $10.90 You Save: $64.10 (85%) New (17) Used (28) Collectible (1) from $10.90 Rating: 6 reviews Sales Rank: 239150 Media: Hardcover Edition: 1st Pages: 560 Number Of Items: 1 Shipping Weight (lbs): 5 Dimensions (in): 12.5 x 9.5 x 1.4 ISBN: 0394570162 Dewey Decimal Number: 704.0396073 EAN: 9780394570167 ASIN: 0394570162 Publication Date: October 26, 1993 Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days Condition: Used library book - usual markings labels and processing


Editorial Reviews: Product Description A landmark work of art history: lavishly illustrated and extraordinary for its thoroughness, A History of African-American Artists -- conceived, researched, and written by the great American artist Romare Bearden with journalist Harry Henderson, who completed the work after Bearden's death in 1988 -- gives a conspectus of African-American art from the late eighteenth century to the present. It examines the lives and careers of more than fifty signal African-American artists, and the relation of their work to prevailing artistic, social, and political trends both in America and throughout the world. Beginning with a radical reevaluation of the enigma of Joshua Johnston, a late eighteenth-century portrait painter widely assumed by historians to be one of the earliest known African-American artists, Bearden and Henderson go on to examine the careers of Robert S. Duncanson, Edward M. Bannister, Henry Ossawa Tanner, Aaron Douglas, Edmonia Lewis, Jacob Lawrence, Hale A. Woodruff, Augusta Savage, Charles H. Alston, Ellis Wilson, Archibald J. Motley, Jr., Horace Pippin, Alma W. Thomas, and many others. Illustrated with more than 420 black-and-white illustrations and 61 color reproductions -- including rediscovered classics, works no longer extant, and art never before seen in this country -- A History of African-American Artists is a stunning achievement.