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Black artists in their own words /

"What is Black art? No one has thought harder about that question than Black artists, yet their perspectives have been largely ignored. Instead, their stories have been told by intellectuals like W. E. B. Du Bois and Alain Locke, who defined "a school" of Black art in the early twenti...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Farrington, Lisa (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2025]
Series:The documents of twentieth-century art
Subjects:
Artists, Black.
Artists' statements.
Artistes noirs.
Modern (late 19th Century to 1945)
History.
ART.
Contemporary (1945-)
African American.
American.
LITERARY COLLECTIONS.
ART / American / African American & Black
Artists' statements
Artists, Black
Electronic books.
Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • The Story of an Artist's Life I: Early Years (1909)/ Henry Tanner
  • The Story of an Artist's Life II: Recognition (1909)/ Henry Tanner
  • Letter to Eunice Tietjens (1914)/ Henry Tanner
  • The Legacy of the Ancestral Arts (1925) / Alain Locke
  • My Meeting with Henry O. Tanner in 1928 (1970)/ Hale Woodruff
  • Letter to Freeman Henry Morris Murray (1915) / Meta Warrick Fuller
  • Letter to Alain Locke (1929) / May Howard Jackson
  • Obituary by W.E.B. Du Bois (1933) / May Howard Jackson
  • Diary: Paris, France (1922
  • 1934) / Nancy Elizabeth Prophet
  • Letter from Ernest Peixotto to Ernestine Rose (1923) / Augusta Savage
  • Letter from Augusta Savage to the New York World (1923) / Augusta Savage
  • W.E.B. Du Bois, The Technique of Race Prejudice (1923) / Augusta Savage
  • Letter from Augusta Savage to W.E.B. Du Bois (1929) / Augusta Savage
  • The Negro Artist and Modern Art (1934) / Romare Bearden
  • The Negro in American Culture (1936) / Aaron Douglas
  • A Statement (1936)/ Harlem Artists' Guild
  • Interview with Carroll Greene (1968) / Jacob Lawrence.
  • The Negro Artist and Racial Bias (1937) / James Porter
  • Problems of the African Artist Today (1956) / Ben Enwonwu
  • Background of African Art (1957) / Ronald Moody
  • Heritage in Universally Known Forms of Art (1963) / Kofi Antubam
  • Responsibility and Solidarity in African Culture (1959) / Gerard Sekoto
  • On Haiti, Interview with Max Pol Fouchet (1976)/ Wifredo Lam
  • My Painting Is an Act of Decolonization, Interview with Gerardo Mosquera (1980) / Wifredo Lam
  • Interview with Charles H. Rowell (1989) / Lois Mailou Jones
  • Letter to Cecile & Holmes & Chipper & Buster & C.C. (ca. 1960) / Bob Thompson
  • Artist Statement (1965) / Bob Thompson
  • Robert Thompson and the Old Masters, by Jeanne Siegel (1967) / Bob Thompson
  • Autobiographical Account (ca. 1964) / Alma Thomas
  • Earth Paintings (ca. 1970
  • 1978) / Alma Thomas
  • Artist's Statement (1969) / Al Loving
  • Hanging Loose: An Interview with Donald Miller (1973) / Sam Gilliam
  • Artist's Statement (1973) / David Driskell
  • Interview with Curlee Holton and Faith Ringgold (2005) / David Driskell
  • Interview with Hugh M. Davies and Helaine Posner (1984) / Martin Puryear
  • Letter to President Bill Clinton (1994) / Barbara Chase-Riboud
  • The Negro People and American Art at Mid-Century (1961) / Elizabeth Catlett
  • Address to Conference on the Functional Aspects of Black Art (1970) / Elizabeth Catlett
  • Group Statement (1965) / Spiral
  • Black Is a Color (1967)/ Raymond Saunders
  • The Black Artist: Calling a Spade a Spade (1967) / Ishmael Reed
  • Art and Soul (1969) / Charles White
  • Wanted Poster Series Statement (1969) / Charles White
  • Black Emergency Cultural Coalition Metropolitan Museum Protest (1969) / Benny Andrews and Cliff Joseph
  • Benny Andrews and Henri Ghent, Black Emergency Cultural Coalition Statement (1971) / The Whitney Museum Protest
  • Nigel Jackson, Rebuttal to the Whitney Museum Exhibition (1971) / The Whitney Museum Protest
  • Black Artists Refuse to Participate in the Whitney Exhibition: John Dowell, Sam Gilliam, Daniel Johnson, Joe Overstreet, Melvin Edwards, Richard Hunt, and William T. Williams (1971) / The Whitney Museum Protest
  • Proposal to Eradicate Institutional Racism at the Boston Museum (1970) / Dana Chandler
  • 10 in Search of a Nation: African Commune of Bad Relevant Artists (1970) / Jeff Donaldson
  • Interview with Joseph E. Young (1970) / David Hammons
  • Artist's Statement (1970) / David Hammons
  • On His Use of Ancient African Legends, Customs, and Symbols (1962) / Skunder Boghossian
  • Sculpture in Ghana (1964) / Vincent Akwete Kofi
  • Open Letter to the First World Festival of Black Arts (1966) / Abdias do Nascimento
  • Candomblé: The Source of Art (1978) / Abdias do Nascimento
  • The Role of the Painter (1970) / Papa Ibra Tall
  • Interview with Elizabeth Harney (1994) / Papa Ibra Tall
  • My School Is Life Itself (1977) / Erhabor Emokpae
  • On the Impact of FESTAC (1977) / Ben Enwonwu
  • The Second World Black and African Festival of Arts and Culture (1977) / Arthur Monroe
  • Socialism in African Culture (1977) / Momodou Ceesay
  • Does Art Have a Gender? (1972) / Faith Ringgold
  • A Message to the Could Be Political Artists of the World (1973) / Faith Ringgold
  • Some Do's and Don'ts for Black Women Artists (1982) / Emma Amos
  • Letter to the Editors of the Feminist Journal M/E/A/N/I/N/G (1989) / Emma Amos
  • Contemporary Feminism: Art Practice, Theory, and Activism (1999) / Emma Amos
  • Afrofemcentrism: in the Art of Catlett and Ringgold (1987) / Freida High W. Tesfagiorgis
  • Unfinished Business: The Return of Aunt Jemima (1998) / Betye Saar
  • The Emergence of Black Women Artists: The 1970s, New York (1998) / Kay Brown
  • Free, White and 21 (1980) / Howardena Pindell
  • Art (World) and Racism (1987) / Howardena Pindell
  • Mlle Bourgeoise Noire 1955 (1981) / Lorraine O'Grady
  • You're Fine (1988) / Lorna Simpson
  • Tompkins Square Crawl (1991) / Pope.L. (formerly William Pope.L.)
  • Some Notes on the Ocean... (2012) / Pope.L. (formerly William Pope.L.)
  • Untitled (l Feel Most Colored When I Am Thrown Against a Sharp White Background) small version 1 / Glenn Ligon
  • Tippy (1998) / Renée Stout
  • Can't Breathe (2015) / Renée Stout
  • Interview with Mark A. Graham (2007) / Fred Wilson
  • Museums Move Glacially (2006) / Fred Wilson
  • Interview with Nancy Princenthal (2019) / Willie Cole
  • Response to Whitney Biennial critics (2019) / Simone Leigh
  • In His Own Words: Art and Photography Quoted (1978
  • 1988) / Jean-Michel Basquiat
  • The Global Village of African American Art (1996) / Keith Morrison
  • Juliette Bowles, Extreme Times Call for Extreme Heroes (1997) / The Kara Walker Debate
  • Juliette Bowles, Stereotypes Subverted: Editor's Response (1998) / The Kara Walker Debate
  • Interview with Don Bacigalupi and Marilyn Kern-Foxworth (1997) / Michael Ray Charles
  • Interview with Paul Karlstrom (1999) / Robert Colescott
  • Interview with Cristinerose Parravicini (1998) / Renee Cox
  • Portraiture & Representation (2008) / Kerry James Marshall
  • Interview with Brandon Fortune (2008) / Kehinde Wiley
  • Kehinde Wiley Explains the Botanical Imagery in His Painting of President Obama (2018) / Kehinde Wiley
  • Coco Fusco Talks about Her Latest Performance (2013) / Coco Fusco
  • The Mundane Afrofuturist Manifesto (2013) / Martine Syms
  • List of Illustrations
  • Index