""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 ..."
"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 LeslieKing-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 ..."
"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."
"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 ..."
"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 ..."
"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 ..."
""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 ..."
"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 LeslieKing-Hammond Softcover, Published 2022 by Ryan Lee Gallery ISBN-13: 978-0-578-36560-2, ISBN: 0-578-36560-X
"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 ..."
" 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 ..."
"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 ..."
"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 ..."
"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, LeslieKing-Hammond Hardcover, 268 Pages, Published 2001 by Galerie Moderne/Andreas Studios ISBN-13: 978-0-9712222-0-5, ISBN: 0-9712222-0-7