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The Romare Bearden reader /

1478000449

1478000589

9781478000440

9781478000587

The Romare Bearden reader /

[Book]

Robert G. O'Meally, editor.

Durham :

Duke University Press,

2019.

©2019

x, 413 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates :

illustrations ;

24 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Brings together a collection of new essays and canonical writings by novelists, poets, historians, critics, and playwrights. The contributors, who include Toni Morrison, Ralph Ellison, August Wilson, Farah Jasmine Griffin, and Kobena Mercer, contextualize Bearden's life and career within the history of modern art, examine the influence of jazz and literature on his work, trace his impact on twentieth-century African American culture, and outline his art's political dimensions. other focus on specific pieces, such as "A Black Odyssey," or the ways in which Bearden used collage to understand African American identity. This book also includes Bearden's most important writings, which grant readers insight into his aesthetic values and practices and share his desire to tell what it means to be black in America.

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Romare Bearden reader

9781478002260

Bearden, Romare,1911-1988.

Bearden, Romare,1911-1988.

African American artists, Biography.

Artists-- United States, Biography.

African American artists.

ART / General.

Artists.

United States.

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O'Meally, Robert G.,1948-

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