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050 00 $aN6538.N5$bF27 2005
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049 $aMAIN
100 1 $aFarrington, Lisa E.
245 10 $aCreating their own image :$bthe history of African-American women artists /$cLisa E. Farrington.
260 $aOxford ;$aNew York :$bOxford University Press,$c2005.
300 $a354 pages :$billustrations (chiefly color) ;$c29 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$bnc$2rdacarrier
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aThe 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.
520 $aCreating 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.
520 $aDrawing on revealing interviews with numerous contemporary artists, such as Betye Saar, Faith Ringgold, Nanette Carter, Camille Billops, Xenobia Bailey, and many others, the second half of Creating Their Own Image probes more recent stylistic developments, such as abstraction, conceptualism, and post-modernism, never losing sight of the struggles and challenges that have consistently influenced this body of work. Weaving together an expansive collection of artists, styles, and periods, Farrington argues that for centuries African-American women artists have created an alternative vision of how women of color can, are, and might be represented in American culture. From utilitarian objects such as quilts and baskets to a wide array of fine arts, Creating Their Own Image serves up compelling evidence of the fundamental human need to convey one's life, one's emotions, one's experiences, on a canvas of one's own making. [from publisher description].
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650 0 $aAfrican American art.
650 0 $aAfrican American women artists.
650 7 $aAfrican American art.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst00799012
650 7 $aAfrican American women artists.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst00799474
650 7 $aArt afro-américain.$2rasuqam
650 7 $aFemme artiste.$2rasuqam
650 7 $aKunst$2gnd
650 7 $aWeibliche Schwarze$2gnd
650 7 $aKünstlerin$2gnd
650 7 $aIdentitätsfindung$2gnd
651 7 $aUSA.$2swd
650 7 $aART / American.$2bisacsh
650 7 $aSOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / African American Studies.$2bisacsh
856 42 $3Book review (H-Net)$uhttp://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=11660
856 42 $3Contributor biographical information$uhttp://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0723/2003066171-b.html
856 42 $3Publisher description$uhttp://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0615/2003066171-d.html
856 42 $3Book review (H-Net)$uhttp://www.h-net.org/review/hrev-a0e7d8-aa
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