ISBN:
9780199767601
Language:
English
Pages:
354 Seiten
,
zahlr. Ill
DDC:
704.04208996073
Keywords:
Identitätsfindung
;
Schwarze Frau
;
Kunst
;
Künstlerin
;
USA
;
USA
;
Schwarze Frau
;
Künstlerin
;
Identitätsfindung
;
USA
;
Schwarze Frau
;
Kunst
Abstract:
Inhaltsverzeichnis: The image -- Creativity and the era of slavery -- The nineteenth-century professional vanguard -- The Harlem Renaissance and the New Negro -- The New Negro and the New Deal -- Civil rights and Black power -- Black feminist art -- Abstract explorations -- Conceptualism : art as idea -- Vernacular artists : against the odds -- Postmodern pluralism -- "Post-black" art and the new millennium.
Abstract:
Verlagsinfo: Creating Their Own Image marks the first comprehensive history of African-American women artists, from slavery to the present day. Using an analysis of stereotypes of Africans and African-Americans in western art and culture as a springboard, Lisa E. Farrington here richly details hundreds of important works--many of which deliberately challenge these same identity myths, of the carnal Jezebel, the asexual Mammy, the imperious Matriarch - in crafting a portrait of artistic creativity unprecedented in its scope and ambition. In these lavishly illustrated pages, some of which feature images never before published, we learn of the efforts of Elizabeth Keckley, fashion designer to Mary Todd Lincoln; the acclaimed sculptor Edmonia Lewis, internationally renowned for her neoclassical works in marble; and the artist Nancy Elizabeth Prophet and her innovative teaching techniques. We meet Laura Wheeler Waring who portrayed women of color as members of a socially elite class in stark contrast to the prevalent images of compliant maids, impoverished malcontents, and exotics "others" that proliferated in the inter-war period. We read of the painter Barbara Jones-Hogu's collaboration on the famed Wall of Respect, even as we view a rare photograph of Hogu in the process of painting the mural. Farrington expertly guides us through the fertile period of the Harlem Renaissance and the "New Negro Movement," which produced an entirely new crop of artists who consciously imbued their work with a social and political agenda, and through the tumultuous, explosive years of the civil rights movement
Note:
Originally published: 2005. First issued as an Oxford University Press paperback, 2011
URL:
https://global.oup.com/academic/product/creating-their-own-image-9780199767601
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