Top 10 Best "African American Art" Books

African American Art and Artists

Samella Lewis
Mary Jane Hewitt
Floyd Coleman

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Charles White Book (David C. Driskell Series of African American Art)

Andrea D. Barnwell

African American Art

Charles White (David C. Driskell Series of African American Art, V. 1)

As the debut volume in the highly anticipated David C. Driskell Series of African American Art, Charles White sets a remarkable standard for the other volumes to follow. Filled with drawings and paintings - many of which have never been published before - and scholarly text by Andrea D. Barnwell, this monograph encapsulates the spirit, vision, and extraordinary brilliance of White's powerful art.

Barnwell discusses White's regard as an artist and chronicles his career as he pursued artistic excellence, personal integrity, economic freedom, and racial equality. One of the greatest American artists of the twentieth century, Charles White and his place in the annals of art history has not previously been adequately examined. This book is an important step in ensuring the legacy of this seminal artist and singular man.

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Romare Bearden, American Modernist (Studies in the History of Art Series)

Ruth Fine
Jacqueline Francis

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Collecting African American Art

Halima Taha

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African-American Art (Oxford History of Art)

Sharon F. Patton

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The Other Side of Color

David C. Driskell
Camille O. Cosby
Bill Cosby
Rene Hanks

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Black Art

Richard J. Powell

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Places for the Spirit

Vaughn Sills
Lowry Pei
Hilton Als

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Wake Up Our Souls

Tonya Bolden

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Creating Their Own Image

Lisa E. Farrington

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African American Visual Arts

In African American Visual Arts Celeste-Marie Bernier introduces readers to the sheer diversity, range, and experimental nature of African American art and artists and considers their relationship to key motifs within black culture and black experience in North America. The book traces the major developments in African American visual culture from its beginnings in the ceramics and textiles of slave artisans to later contributions in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries to the fine arts and abstract expressionism, sculpture, installation art, video art, and computer graphics.

Bernier analyzes the work of twenty-one artists, including Elizabeth Catlett, Jacob Lawrence, William Edmondson, Howardena Pindell, Charles Alston, Romare Bearden, Norman Lewis, Betye Saar, Horace Pippin, and Kara Walker. She highlights key but frequently neglected and little-discussed black artists, situating their works within their specific historical and political contexts. Bernier provides a new understanding of their relationship to fundamental themes of the black experience such as black s...

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African American Visual Arts

Celeste-Marie Bernier

African American Art

A History of African-American Artists

Romare Bearden
Harry Henderson

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