The hearing eye : jazz & blues influences in African American visual art /

The widespread presence of jazz and blues in African American visual art has long been overlooked. 'The Hearing Eye' makes the case for recognizing the music's importance, both as formal template and as explicit subject matter.

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Lock, Graham, 1948-, Murray, David, 1945-
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Oxford University Press, ©2009.
Subjects:	African American art > 20th century. Art and music > United States > History > 20th century. Jazz in art. Blues (Music) in art. Art noir américain > 20e siècle. Art et musique > États-Unis > Histoire > 20e siècle. Jazz dans l'art. Blues dans l'art. ART > History > General. African American art Art and music Blues (Music) in art Jazz in art United States Beziehung Jazz Malerei Blues Schwärze USA 1900-1999 Electronic books. History
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Table of Contents:

"Selling that stuff": advertising art and early blues on 78s / Paul Oliver
Blues on the brush: Rose Piper's blues and Negro folk songs paintings of the 1940s / Graham Lock
Michael Cummings: stitching in tempo
"Pure eye music": Norman Lewis, abstract expressionism, and bebop / Sara Wood
Sam Middleton: the painter as improvising soloist
The enigma of Bob Thompson / Richard H. King
Wadsworth Jarrell and AFRICOBRA: sheets of color, sheets of sound
"We used to say 'stashed'": Romare Bearden paints the blues / Robert G. O'Meally
"Blues and the abstract truth": or, did Romare Bearden really paint jazz? / Johannes Völz
Joe Overstreet: light in darkness
Royalty, heroism, and the streets: the art of Jean-Michel Basquiat / Robert Farris Thompson
Ellen Banks: the geometries of the score
"And you slip into the breaks and look around": jazz and everyday life in the photographs of Roy DeCarava / Richard Ings
A Jackson in the house: musicians talk painters.