Represent: 200 Years Of African Art In The Philadelphia Museum Of Art
Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art, 2014. Hardcover. illustrated boards w/ gold & red printing. 210 pages : illustrations (chiefly color). More
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Homecoming: The Art and Life of William H. Johnson
New York / Washington, DC: National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution / Rizzoli, 1991. Softcover. Square Quarto. Softcover. Glossy illustrated wrapper. xxiii, 255 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 28 cm. This distinctive volume focuses on the memorable paintings of noted African American modernist William Henry Johnson. Born and..... More
African American Art: Harlem Renaissance, The Civil Rights Era, and Beyond
Washington DC: Smithsonian American Art Museum, 2012. Black casebound book. There is a dust jacket with the title in white down a black spine. Pages: (8), 9-254. Profusely illustrated with both color and black-and-white images. "A beautifully illustrated survey of African American art of the twentieth century, including many never-before-seen..... More
African American Art: Harlem Renaissance, The Civil Rights Era, and Beyond
Washington DC: Smithsonian American Art Museum, 2012. Hardcover. Black casebound book. There is a dust jacket with the title in white down a black spine. Pages: (8), 9-254. Profusely illustrated with both color and black-and-white images. "A beautifully illustrated survey of African American art of the twentieth century, including many..... More
Exultations: African-American Art 20th Century Masterworks, II
New York: Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, 1995. Softcover. sepia-toned illustrated wrappers w/ brown printing. 48 pgs w/ 48 bw & color illustrations. Includes the works of Norman Lewis, Bob Thompson, Betye Saar, Robert Pious and many others. More
Going there : Black visual satire
New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2020. Hardcover. Color illustrated dj with black and white text, blue and black boards with silver text on spine. xii, (1) 2-228 pp. Features some color illustrations. "In this groundbreaking study, Richard J. Powell investigates the visual forms of satire produced by black artists..... More
William H. Johnson: Expressionist and Artist of the Blues Aesthetic - Vol. 1, Text
Ann Arbor, Michigan: University of Michigan, 1988. Hardbound. Slate blue buckram library binding with white lettering; 309 pp. with no illustrations. Volume one of Powell's PhD dissertation for Yale University, text only; about the African-American artist, William H. Johnson, with reference to Expressionist writers and blues music. More
Homecoming: The Art and Life of William H. Johnson
Washington, DC / New York: National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution / Rizzoli, 1991. Softcover. Color illustrated glossy glued wraps. xxiii, 255 pp., richly illsutrated color and b&w. Published to accompany an exhibition held in Washington, DC: National Museum of American Art, Sept. 13, 1991 to Mar. 1, 1992..... More
Homecoming: The Art and Life of William H. Johnson
Washington, DC / New York: National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution / Rizzoli, 1991. Hardcover. Blue and color illustrated dustjacket over similarly designed paper-covered boards. xxiii, 255 pp., richly illsutrated color and b&w. Published to accompany an exhibition held in Washington, DC: National Museum of American Art, Sept. 13..... More
To Conserve a Legacy: American Art from Historically Black Colleges and Universities
Andover, MA: Phillips Academy, 1999. Softcover. Color pictorial wraps with red and white lettering; 240 pp. with color and bw illustrations and plates throughout and an exhibition checklist of 261 color and bw images;. "Many of this nation's Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) have amassed significant collections of American..... More
Archibald Motley: Jazz Age Modernist
Durham, NC: Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, 2014. Softcover. Quarto. Softcover. Illustrated wraps. xi, 171 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), portraits ; 29 cm. Featuring more than 140 colour illustrations, this catalogue accompanies the first full-scale survey in 20 years of the work of Archibald John Motley, Jr...... More
Back to Black: Art, Cinema & the Racial Imaginary
London / Walsall: Whitechapel Art Gallery / New Art Gallery Walsall, 2005. Hardcover. Small Quarto. Hardcover. Thin stiff boards with large gilt titles. No jacket, presumably as issued. 192 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm. The book focuses on the rise of the Black Arts Movement in the..... More
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African-American Artists, 1880-1987: Selections from The Evans-Tibbs Collection
Washington, D. C. University of Washington Press, 1989. Softcover. Blue illustrated wraps. 125 pp. 68 color plates. Catalogue lists 68 works by 55 artists. Essays by Guy C. McElroy (The Foundations for Change, 1880-1920), Richard J. Powell (From Renaissance to Rebellion, 1920-1950) and Sharon F. Patton (The Search for Identity..... More
Beauford Delaney: The Color Yellow
Atlanta: High Museum of Art, 2002. Softcover. Black & yellow illus. wraps. 61 pp. Several bw illus, 30 color plates. Issued in conjunction with a series of 2002-2003 exhibitions of selected yellow-themed artwork rendered by African American artist Beauford Delaney (1901-1979). With essays by Richard A. Long and Richard J...... More
The Blues Aesthetic: Black Culture and Modernism
Washington, DC: Washington Project For The Arts, 1989. Softcover. Red wraps with color illustrations and black lettering, 104 pp. 16 color, 28+ bw plates. Contains an exhibition checklist of 80 works, bibliography, brief introduction, and 11 essays on the blues and its relation to the arts. Includes a section of..... More
Cutting a Figure: Fashioning Black Portraiture
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008. Hardbound. Cherry red cloth with gold lettering; white dj with color illustration and red and black lettering; 276 pp. with 116 color and bw illustrations. Combining previously unpublished images with scrupulous archival research, Cutting a Figure illuminates the ideological nature of the genre and..... More
Homecoming: The Art and Life of William H. Johnson
Washington, DC / New York: National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution / Rizzoli, 1991. Softcover. Blue and color illus. wraps. 255 pp., 190+ color and bw plates. Published to accompany an exhibition held in Washington, DC: National Museum of American Art, Sept. 13, 1991 to Mar. 1, 1992. This..... More
Homecoming: The Art and Life of William H. Johnson
Washington, DC / New York: National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution / Rizzoli, 1991. Hardcover. Quarto. Hardcover. Blue and color illustrated dustjacket over similarly designed paper-covered boards. 255 pp., 190+ color and bw plates. Published to accompany an exhibition held in Washington, DC: National Museum of American Art, Sept..... More
Back to Black: Art, Cinema & the Racial Imaginary
London: Whitechapel Gallery, 2005. Hardcover. Flexible black covers with gilt letters on front and gilt decoration on back, 192 pp., color and BW illus. Issued in conjunction with several 2005 exhibitions focusing "on the rise of the Black Arts Movement in the US, Britain and Jamaica in the 1960s &..... More
William H. Johnson: An American Modern
Washington, DC / Baltimore, Md. / Seattle, WA: Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service (SITES); James E. Lewis Museum of Art, Morgan State University; in association with University of Washington Press, 2011. Softcover. White wraps with color illustration. 118 pp. 20 full-page, full-color plates, very many other color and bw illustrations..... More
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