African-American art /

Patton, Sharon F.

African-American art / Sharon F. Patton. - Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1998. - 319 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm. - Oxford history of art . - Oxford history of art. .

Includes bibliographical references (pages 274-299) and index.

Colonial America and the young republic 1700-1820. Plantations ; The revival of African culture on the plantations ; A planter's house in Louisiana ; Plantation slave artists and craftsmen ; Urban slave artists and craftsmen -- Nineteenth-Century America, the Civil War and Reconstruction. Architecture, the decorative arts, and folk art ; Fine arts : Painting, sculpture, and graphic arts -- Twentieth-Century America and modern art 1900-60. African-American culture, the New Negro and art in the 1920s ; The patronage of the New Negro artist ; State funding and the rise of African-American art ; American culture post World War II ; Abstract Expressionism and African-American art -- Twentieth-Century America : the evolution of a black aesthetic. Cultural crisis : Black artist or American artist? ; The evolution of a modern black aesthetic ; Art institutions and artists' groups ; Towards a new abstraction ; The postmodern condition 1980-93 -- Timeline.

Discusses African American folk art, decorative art, photography, and fine arts.

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African American art.

N 6538 .N5 / P38 1998