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<p><b>"Excellent artists' profiles, lots of reproductions, and illuminating and original discussions of social and cultural contexts of African American art."—</b>Booklist.</p> <p>The African diaspora—a direct result of the transatlantic slave trade and Western colonialism—generated a wide array of artistic achievements in the past century, from blues to reggae, from the paintings of Henry Ossawa Tanner to the video installations of Keith Piper. Richard Powell's study concentrates on the works of art themselves and on how these works, created during a time of major social upheaval and transformation, use black culture as both subject and context.</p> <p>From musings on the "the souls of black folk" in early twentieth-century painting, sculpture, and photography to questions of racial and cultural identities in performance, media, and computer-assisted arts in the 1990s, the book draws on the works of hundreds of artists including Jean-Michel Basquiat, Romare Bearden, Elizabeth Catlett, Lois Mailou Jones, Wifredo Lam, Jacob Lawrence, Spike Lee, Archibald Motley, Jr., Faith Ringgold, and Gerard Sekoto.</p> <p>This revised edition includes expanded coverage of video art and a new chap

Author

Richard J. Powell

Publisher

Thames & Hudson World of Art

Published

2003

Language

EN

ISBN

9780500203620

Subjects

Art, Social Science, History

Rating

4.7 / 5 (125 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14