"Vital signs, the pulses and patterns of the body, are indicators of essential life functions. The powerful work of Joe Feddersen reveals, like vital signs themselves, the state of the human condition from the vantage point of a contemporary artist who has inherited an ancient aesthetic tradition. Arising from Plateau Indian iconographic interpretations of the human-environment relationship, Feddersen's prints, weavings, and glass scul ..."
"Never Late for Heaven chronicles an odyssey in American art and social events beginning with the often-romanticized Harlem Renaissance and traveling through the Great Depression and beyond. Gwen Knight’s story reveals the life and the passion for painting of a young woman who was surrounded and supported by her community.Her formal education cut short by the Depression, Knight left Howard University and returned to Harlem, where her rea ..."
""A fresh lens for viewing Jacob Lawrence's art: through the perspective of teens of color. . . . An invaluable resource amplifying marginalized teen voices and conveying Lawrence's relevance to their own lives." ―Kirkus Reviews In the mid-1950s, as Brown v. Board of Education felled the ideology of “separate but equal,” the great African-American artist Jacob Lawrence saw the need for a version of American history that reckoned with its ..."
"Earning and adopting the title of "artist-reporter," Allan Rohan Crite recorded the people, architecture, and daily life of African Americans in Boston's Roxbury and South End districts during the 1930s and 1940s. His oil paintings, watercolors, drawings, and prints capture the parades, games, conversations, work, and spirit of a past era with expressive lines and vivid colors. Depicting his own American scene, his images have a univers ..."
Storm Watch(1st Edition) The Art of BarbaraEarlThomas (Jacob Lawrence Series on American Artists) by BarbaraEarlThomas, Vicki Halper, Jacob Lawrence Paperback, 80 Pages, Published 1998 by University Of Washington Press ISBN-13: 978-0-295-97695-2, ISBN: 0-295-97695-0
"As a painter and writer of prodigious talent and remarkable visionary sensibility, Barbara Earl Thomas continues to spark increasing attention both regionally and nationally. The granddaughter of southern sharecroppers who migrated to Seattle in the middle 1940s, Thomas expresses in her art a dual heritage, translating her own vision of southern roots and culture into a Northwestern landscape.Storm Watch is a radiant book, offering a ri ..."
"This publication sets the precedent for the next generation of Lawrence scholars and studies in modern and contemporary discourse. The American Struggle explores Jacob Lawrence's radical way of transforming history into art by looking at his thirty panel series of paintings, Struggle . . . from the History of the American People (1954–56). Essays by Steven Locke, Elizabeth Hutton Turner, Austen Barron Bailly, and Lydia Gordon mark the h ..."
"James Baldwin in Turkey shares rarely seen photographs of James Baldwin in Turkey, taken by his friend Sedat Pakay. Piercingly intimate and beautifully candid, these images capture the vibrant world of acquaintances, friends, and collaborators Baldwin cultivated while living intermittently in Turkey from 1961 to 1971.Following publication of Notes of a Native Son and The Fire Next Time, James Baldwin's literary star approached its peak ..."
"This publication sets the precedent for the next generation of Lawrence scholars and studies in modern and contemporary discourse. The American Struggle explores Jacob Lawrence's radical way of transforming history into art by looking at his thirty panel series of paintings, Struggle . . . from the History of the American People (1954–56). Essays by Steven Locke, Elizabeth Hutton Turner, Austen Barron Bailly, and Lydia Gordon mark the h ..."
Storm Watch(1st Edition) The Art of BarbaraEarlThomas (The Jacob Lawrence Series on American Artists) by BarbaraEarlThomas, Vicki Halper, Jacob Lawrence Hardcover, 79 Pages, Published 1998 by Univ Of Washington Pr ISBN-13: 978-0-295-97696-9, ISBN: 0-295-97696-9
"As a painter and writer of prodigious talent and visionary sensibility, Barbara Earl Thomas continues to spark increasing attention both regionally and nationally. The granddaughter of southern sharecroppers who migrated to Seattle in the middle 1940s, Thomas expresses in her art a dual heritage, translating her own vision of southern roots and culture into a northwestern landscape. In her paintings, Thomas incorporates themes of people ..."
"Photographer Kathleen Jo Ryan first witnessed the awe-inspiring spectacle of the Grand Canyon in 1987. A year later she rafted the Colorado River into the canyon, emerging from this transforming experience with the idea for a book: "Going down the river into the heart of the canyon is adventuring into a place of spirit. I hold a warm, overwhelming feeling of gratitude, respect, and humility for having been allowed to float and play thro ..."