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The Hearing Eye - Jazz and Blues Influences in African American Visual Art (Hardcover, New)
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The Hearing Eye - Jazz and Blues Influences in African American Visual Art (Hardcover, New)
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The widespread presence of jazz and blues in African American
visual art has long been overlooked. The Hearing Eye makes the case
for recognizing the music's importance, both as formal template and
as explicit subject matter. Moving on from the use of iconic
musical figures and motifs in Harlem Renaissance art, this
groundbreaking collection explores the more allusive - and elusive
- references to jazz and blues in a wide range of mostly
contemporary visual artists.
There are scholarly essays on the painters Rose Piper (Graham
Lock), Norman Lewis (Sara Wood), Bob Thompson (Richard H. King),
Romare Bearden (Robert G. O'Meally, Johannes Volz) and Jean-Michel
Basquiat (Robert Farris Thompson), as well an account of early
blues advertising art (Paul Oliver) and a discussion of the
photographs of Roy DeCarava (Richard Ings). These essays are
interspersed with a series of in-depth interviews by Graham Lock,
who talks to quilter Michael Cummings and painters Sam Middleton,
Wadsworth Jarrell, Joe Overstreet and Ellen Banks about their
musical inspirations, and also looks at art's reciprocal effect on
music in conversation with saxophonists Marty Ehrlich and Jane Ira
Bloom.
With numerous illustrations both in the book and on its companion
website, The Hearing Eye reaffirms the significance of a
fascinating and dynamic aspect of African American visual art that
has been too long neglected.
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