The African diaspora a direct result of the transatlantic slave
trade and Western colonialism generated a wide array of artistic
achievements in the past century, from blues to reggae, from the
paintings of Henry Ossawa Tanner to the video installations of
Keith Piper. Richard Powell's study concentrates on the works of
art themselves and on how these works, created during a time of
major social upheaval and transformation, use black culture as both
subject and context. From musings on the "the souls of black folk"
in early twentieth-century painting, sculpture, and photography to
questions of racial and cultural identities in performance, media,
and computer-assisted arts in the 1990s, the book draws on the
works of hundreds of artists including Jean-Michel Basquiat, Romare
Bearden, Elizabeth Catlett, Lois Mailou Jones, Wifredo Lam, Jacob
Lawrence, Spike Lee, Archibald Motley, Jr., Faith Ringgold, and
Gerard Sekoto. This revised edition includes expanded coverage of
video art and a new chapter that discusses work by a number of
artists who have newly risen to prominence, such as Chris Ofili,
Kara Walker, and Renee Cox. Biographies of more than 170 key
artists provide a unique art-historical reference. Placing its
emphasis on black cultural themes rather than on black racial
identity, this groundbreaking book is an important exploration of
the visual representations of black culture throughout the
twentieth century and into the twenty-first.
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