Top 10 Best "African American Art Prints" Books

Jumping the Broom

Harriette Cole

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Imagining the Black Female Body

Carol E. Henderson

African American Art Prints

Imagining the Black Female Body

This volume explores issues of black female identity through the various "imaginings" of the black female body in print and visual culture. Offering an exploration of the continuities and discontinuities of subjectivity and agency, this collection reveals black women's expressivity as a multilayered enterprise, liberating and similarly confining. Thus these representations in art, literature, and culture perform a delicate and challenging dance of redemption—a redemption necessary to flesh out the precarious dynamics of being black and female at the turn of this century. Contributions emphasize the ways in which the black female body is framed and how black women (and their allies) have sought to write themselves back into social discourses on their terms. 

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Gullah Images

Jonathan Green
Pat Conroy

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The Art of Ellis Wilson

Albert Sperath
Margaret R. Vendryes
Steven H. Jones
Eva King

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The Image of the Indian and the Black Man in American Art, 1590-1900

Ellwood Parry

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The African American Newspaper

Patrick S. Washburn
Clarence Page

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My Holy Bible for African-American Children, KJV

Cheryl and Wade Hudson

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African-American Artists, 1929-1945

Lisa Gail Collins
Lisa Mintz Messinger

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Elizabeth Catlett

Melanie Anne Herzog

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Seeing the Unspeakable

Gwendolyn DuBois Shaw

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Margo Humphrey (The David C. Driskell Series of African American Art)

In Margo Humphrey, Adrienne L. Childs explores the career of one of the most inspiring artists and printmakers of our time. Best known for her "sophisticated naïve" style, Margo Humphrey (b. 1942) transforms personal experiences into narratives that speak to the human spirit. Bold colors and flat planes intertwine using the artist's unique iconography to address issues of race, gender, spirituality, and relationships. Part autobiography and part fantasy, Humphrey's work alludes to the correlation between the temporal and the spiritual as they coexist in her world.

Humphrey employs visual metaphors to channel her experience growing up as an African American woman. Everyday objects become recurring symbols in her prints: zebras embody the strength of her heritage; a plate of yams represents nourishment or survival. Whether celebrating her childhood or confronting her personal fears, Humphrey's artwork navigates her life story to convey hope, possibility, and love.

Margo Humphrey presents over forty-five color plates, from the artist's early abstract art thr...

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Margo Humphrey

Adrienne L. Childs
David C. Driskell

African American Art Prints

The Great Migration

Jacob Lawrence

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