This book examines the quilts, ceramics, paintings, sculpture,
installations, assemblages, daguerreotypes, photography and
performance art produced by African American artists over a two
hundred year period. The author draws on archaeological discoveries
and unpublished archival materials to recover the lost legacies of
artists living and working in the United States. As the first
critical study to provide in-depth case studies of twenty artists,
this book introduces readers to works created in response to the
Middle Passage, Atlantic slavery, lynching, racism, segregation,
and the fight for civil rights. Bernier examines little-discussed
panoramas, murals, portraits, textile designs, collages and
mixed-media installations to get to grips with key motifs and
formal issues within African American art history. Working within
this tradition, artists experiment with cutting edge techniques and
alternative subject-matter to undermine racist iconography and
endorse a new visual language. They push thematic and formal
boundaries to create powerful narratives and epic histories of
creativity, labour, discrimination, suffering and resistance. By
providing close readings of works by artists such as Elizabeth
Catlett, Jacob Lawrence, William Edmondson, Howardena Pindell,
Charles Alston, Romare Bearden, Norman Lewis, Betye Saar, Horace
Pippin and Kara Walker, this book sheds new light on the thematic
and formal complexities of an African American art tradition which
still remains largely shrouded in mystery. Includes 16 colour
photographs.
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