Login | Sign Up | Settings | Wish List

 



Searching ...
0 %

Books by Leslie King-Hammond






William H. Johnson(1st Edition)
An American Modern (Jacob Lawrence Series on American Artists)
by Teresa Gionis, Richard J. Powell, Leslie King-Hammond, Contributor-Aaron Bryant, Lowery Stokes Sims, William H. Johnson, David C. Driskell
Paperback, 120 Pages, Published 2011 by University Of Washington Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-295-99148-1, ISBN: 0-295-99148-8

""My aim is to express in a natural way what I feel, what is in me, both rhythmically and spiritually, all that which in time has been saved up in my family of primitiveness and tradition, and which is now concentrated in me." -William H. JohnsonAn essential figure in modern American art, William H. Johnson (1901-1970) was a virtuoso skilled in various media and techniques, who produced thousands of works over a career that spanned decad ..."






Amalia Amaki(1st Edition)
Boxes, Buttons, and the Blues
by Andrea D. Barnwell, Leslie King-Hammond, Gloria Wade Gayles, Amalia K. Amaki, Andrea Barnwell Brownlee, Judy L. . Larson
Hardcover, 128 Pages, Published 2005 by National Museum Of Women In The Arts
ISBN-13: 978-0-295-98541-1, ISBN: 0-295-98541-0

"For more than three decades, Amalia Amaki has garnered critical acclaim for works that examine the beauty, music, experience, and contributions of African Americans. This volume brings together her photographs, quilts, souvenir fans, and mixed-media works. Incorporating fabric, beads, pearls, buttons, paint, glitter, and photographs with cultural symbols and visual puns, Amaki challenges and reconfigures American history in original and ..."






Casting Shadows(1st Edition)
Images from a New South Africa
by Leslie King-Hammond, Edward West
Paperback, 96 Pages, Published 2001 by Univ Of Michigan Museum Of Art
ISBN-13: 978-0-295-98118-5, ISBN: 0-295-98118-0

"Edward West uses the metaphorical power of shadow to foreground the shifting visibility of South Africa's black population post apartheid. From 1997-1999, he traveled in South Africa to photograph the country's townships, squatter camps, and locations during this historic time of transition. In focusing on the private moments of these newly empowered people within their own communities, West has created a complex, visually compelling st ..."






Three Generations of African American Women Sculptors(1st Edition)
A Study in Paradox
by Leslie King-Hammond, Tritobia Hayes Benjamin, Et Al., Carolyn Shuttlesworth, Roslyn A. Walker
Paperback, 70 Pages, Published 1996 by Afro-American Historical And C
ISBN-13: 978-0-9652110-0-0, ISBN: 0-9652110-0-2






The Many Faces of Beverly Mciver
by Beverly Mciver
34 Pages, Published 2004 by 40 Acres Art Gallery
ISBN-13: 978-0-9759548-1-2, ISBN: 0-9759548-1-4

"An exhibition of paintings by nationally recognized artist Beverly McIver began the 2004-2005 exhibition season. The exhibit featured over thirty paintings, showcasing McIver's best work from the last ten years."






Celebrating Freedom
The Art of Willie Birch
by David S. Rubin, J. B. Borders, Willie Birch, Leslie King Hammond, Contemporary Arts Center
Hardcover, 120 Pages, Published 2006 by Hudson Hills
ISBN-13: 978-1-55595-265-5, ISBN: 1-55595-265-8

"For the past ten years, Birch has been documenting the African American culture of his native New Orleans in large-scale sculpture and drawings that emphasise body language, dress codes, and everyday rituals. His guileless polychrome sculptures evoke both social history and emotion. His use of talismans give the viewer a window to another time, be it through old construction nails symbolising power and strength to a small West African ..."






Hughie Lee Smith
(The David C. Driskell Series of African American Art)
by Leslie King-Hammond, Hughie Lee-Smith, David C. Driskell
Hardcover, 124 Pages, Published 2010 by Pomegranate
ISBN-13: 978-0-7649-5351-4, ISBN: 0-7649-5351-6

"Painter Hughie Lee-Smith (1915-1999) sought to transform his experiences growing up as an African American during the Great Depression into meditations on the human condition. In each of Lee-Smith's enigmatic compositions, barren landscapes, lone figures, and contrasting juxtapositions elicit many questions that lead the viewer to self-reflection. 'I cannot begin to project the meaning of my work in specific terms,' Lee-Smith said, 'for ..."






Symphonic Poem(1st Edition)
The Art of Aminah Brenda Lynn Robinson
by Leslie King-Hammond, Ramona Austin, Annegreth Nil, Aminah B. Robinson, Carole Miller Genshaft
Hardcover, 200 Pages, Published 2003 by Harry N. Abrams
ISBN-13: 978-0-8109-4505-0, ISBN: 0-8109-4505-3

"African-American artist Aminah Robinson (born 1940) produces an array of richly textures, colourful multi-media works. Grand collages on fabric, sculptures, drawings, paintings, carvings, quilts and books weave memory into works that document her own and her community's history. "Symphonic Poem" brings together more than 100 of Robinson's works with essays exploring her life, African influences and spirituality in her art, and her work ..."






Colored(1st Edition)
Consider the Rainbow
by Leslie King-Hammond, Betye Saar, Halley K. Harrisburg, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery
Hardcover, 55 Pages, Published 2003 by Imprint Unknown
ISBN-13: 978-1-930416-19-2, ISBN: 1-930416-19-9






Over the Line(1st Edition)
The Art and Life of Jacob Lawrence
by Patricia Hills, Elizabeth Hutton Turner, Paul J. Karlstrom, Leslie King-Hammond, Lizzetta Lefalle-Collins, Richard J. Powell, Lowery Stokes Sims, Elizabeth Steele, Peter T. Nesbett, Jacob Lawrence, Michelle Dubois, Micelle Dubois
Paperback, 286 Pages, Published 2001 by University Of Washington Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-295-97965-6, ISBN: 0-295-97965-8

""Over the Line: The Art and Life of Jacob Lawrence" includes essays by eight distinguished art historians examining the ways in which Jacob Lawrence's art speaks so powerfully to different audiences. It is the first multi-author, in-depth probe of the artist's entire career: the nature of his work, his education, the critical climate in which he worked, and his use of materials and techniques. It reproduces, in full colour, more than 20 ..."






American Images(1st Edition)
The Sbc Collection of Twentieth-Century American Art
by Betsy Fahlman, Matthew Baigell, Susan C. Larsen, Dore Ashton, Peter Plagens, Irving Sandler, Sbc Communications, William C. Agee, John R. Clarke, Leslie King-Hammond, Jacinto Quirarte, John Beardsley, E. Whitacre
Hardcover, 320 Pages, Published 1996 by Harry N Abrams
ISBN-13: 978-0-8109-1969-3, ISBN: 0-8109-1969-9

"The SBC Collection, formed by SBC Communications, Inc (formerly Southwestern Bell), reflects the intellectual and cultural trends that have influenced artists working in the United States during the 20th century. Works by many of the leading names in American art are illustrated in this book, which also contains 13 essays by scholars, critics and curators to offer an understanding of American art for both the general reader and the stud ..."






Vivian Browne
Africa Series 1971 - 1974
by Leslie King-Hammond
Softcover, Published 2022 by Ryan Lee Gallery
ISBN-13: 978-0-578-36560-2, ISBN: 0-578-36560-X






Baltimore Rising
by Leslie King-Hammond, Deray Mckesson, Tony Shore
Published 2016
ISBN-13: 978-1-5323-1839-9, ISBN: 1-5323-1839-1

"Baltimore Rising is an exhibition bringing together a broad survey of works by 15 artists — with significant ties to Baltimore — who address the social, economic, political and racial issues that propelled the city to the national ..."






Ashe to Amen
a Visual Arts Exhibition Exploring the Enduring Spirituality of People of African Descent
by Leslie King-Hammond, Carol Bebelle, Kimberly Chandler, Sarah Clunis, Frederick "Hollywood" Delahoussaye, Lloyd Dennis, Asali Devan-Ecclesiastes, Freddi Williams-Evans, Al Kennedy, Maurice J. Nutt, Sunni Patterson, Kathy Randels, Kalamu Ya Salaam, Lenwood O. Sloan, Karel Sloane-Boekbinder, Kim Vaz-Deville, Dwight Webster
Published 2015
ISBN-13: 978-1-4951-7615-9, ISBN: 1-4951-7615-0






Romare Bearden
Southern Recollections
by Carla M. Hanzal, Mary Lee Corlett, Glenda Elizabeth Gilmore, Jay Emerling, Lesley King Hammond, Leslie King-Hammond, Jae Emerling, Romare Bearden, Aa.Vv
Hardcover, 144 Pages, Published 2011 by Giles
ISBN-13: 978-1-904832-98-0, ISBN: 1-904832-98-9

" A significant development in the wider understanding of the sources and inspiration behind much of Bearden's art Focuses on a largely unstudied area of the artist's work, his recollections and memories of his southern childhood Draws together a significant and broad ranging collection of his work, produced throughout his career, including selections from his The Prevalence of Ritual series Romare Bearden: Southern Reco ..."






Landscape of Slavery
The Plantation in American Art (Non Series)
by Angela D. Mack, Stephen G. Hoffius, Todd D. Smith, Roberta Sokolitz, Leslie King-Hammond, Maurie D. Mcinnis, John Michael Vlach, S.C., Carolina Art Association
Paperback, 166 Pages, Published 2008 by Univ Of South Carolina Pr
ISBN-13: 978-1-57003-720-7, ISBN: 1-57003-720-5

"Bridging art history and social history, Landscape of Slavery undertakes an original study of plantation images from the eighteenth century through the present to unravel the realities and mythology inherent in this complex and often provocative subject. Through eighty-three color plates, nineteen black-and-white illustrations, and six thematic essays, the collection examines depictions of plantation structures, plantation views, and re ..."






Anxious Objects(1st Edition)
Willie Cole's Favorite Brands
by Patterson Sims, Leslie King-Hammond, Willie Cole, Lowery Stokes Sims, Montclair Art Museum
Paperback, 120 Pages, Published 2006 by Rutgers University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-8135-3863-1, ISBN: 0-8135-3863-7

"An object maker, musician, poet, and performer, Willie Cole is an artist with remarkably diverse art-making skills and a formidable imagination. Best known for his assemblage, mixed media sculptural works, and prints, Cole liberates and aggrandizes everyday artifacts, including irons, ironing boards, hairdryers, high-heeled shoes, lawn jockeys, bicycle parts, and other discarded domestic appliances and hardware and transforms them into ..."






The Art of Whitfield Lovell(2nd Edition)
Whispers from the Walls (Pomegranate Catalog)
by Lucy R. Lippard, Whitfield Lovell, Jennifer Ellen Way, Leslie King-Hammond, Carla Hanzal, Michael R. Flynn
Paperback, 128 Pages, Published 2003 by Pomegranate
ISBN-13: 978-0-7649-2447-7, ISBN: 0-7649-2447-8

"Whispers from the Walls Whitfield Lovell, Lucy R. Lippard. Acknowledgments. ew York artist Whitfield Lovell first traveled to Denton,Texas in the fall of 1997 as a guest of his friend artist Annette Lawrence, a professor of painting and drawing at the University of North Texas School of Visual Arts. His talks were extremely interesting and informative; his interactions with students were unusually intuitive, intelligent, and genero ..."






George Andreas(1st Edition)
Works on paper
by George Andreas, Leslie King-Hammond
Hardcover, 268 Pages, Published 2001 by Galerie Moderne/Andreas Studios
ISBN-13: 978-0-9712222-0-5, ISBN: 0-9712222-0-7

"Book by Andreas, George"






Humbert Howard, Philadelphia Painter
by Leslie King-Hammond, Betty Collier-Thomas
Published 1996
ISBN-13: 978-1-58442-024-8, ISBN: 1-58442-024-3



Continue Search >>

All Authors

Leslie King-Hammond

Lowery Stokes Sims

David Driskell

Richard Powell

Edward West

Carla Hanzal

Roberta Sokolitz

Todd Smith

Angela Mack

Carolina Art Association


All Bindings

Hardcover

Paperback

Unknown


All Editions

1st Edition

2nd Edition

Illustrated


All Years

2021 - 2024

2013 - 2017

2009 - 2013

2005 - 2009

2001 - 2005

1997 - 2001

1993 - 1997

1989 - 1993


All Regions

English

German

Nigeria