Highlights African American artists represented at The Art Institute of Chicago. Provides an overview of concerns surrounding race in art, celebrates the achievements of a number of artists, and provides a multifaceted view of American art and culture, with four essays and a stunning portfolio of 29 images illustrated in color, with brief entries examining individual works. Distributed by the University of Washington Press. Lacks a subject index. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

African Americans in Art: Selections from the Art Institute of Chicago

Arts & Photography

Susan F.N L. Rossen

Colin L. Westerbeck

Daniel Schulman

Andrea D. Barnwell

Kirsten P. Buick

Cherise Smith

Amy M. Mooney

Art Institute Of Chicago

History & Criticism

Univ of Washington Pr

Known for his rich, complex collage works that depict large-scale themes via African-American subjects, Romare Bearden (1911-1988) drew inspiration from myriad cultural influences--from historical and modern art to music and literature. According to The New York Times' Michael Kimmelman, "His genius, aside from his poetic knack for piecing scraps of photographs and other tiny tidbits together, was to see collage as an inherent social metaphor: that its essence was to turn nothings into something, making disparate elements cohere; that it was about mixing and adding, a positivist enterprise." Based on the 2007 National Bearden Symposium, this volume examines Bearden's relationships to modernism, postmodernism and the avant garde, through his wide-ranging interests and associations with artists, intellectuals and musicians of his era--including Duke Ellington, Ralph Ellison and Stuart Davis, to name a few--as well as his practices.

Romare Bearden in the Modernist Tradition

Romare Bearden

Robert O'Meally

Kobena Mercer

Pamela Ford

Romare Bearden Foundation

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