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Romare Bearden
Mary Schmidt Campbell
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Description for Romare Bearden
Hardcover. Mary Schmidt Campbell offers an enlightening analysis of Bearden's influences and the thematic focus of his work. Num Pages: 320 pages, 50 halftones, 16 pp 4-color plates. BIC Classification: ACXD; HBJK; HBLW; JPVH1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 254 x 203. .
One of the most important and underappreciated visual artists of the twentieth century, Romare Bearden started as a cartoonist during his college years and emerged as a painter during the 1930s, at the tail end of the Harlem Renaissance and in time to be part of a significant community of black artists supported by the WPA. Though light-skinned and able to "pass, " Bearden embraced his African heritage, choosing to paint social realist canvases of African-American life. After World War II, he became one of a handful of black artists to exhibit in a private gallery-the commercial outlet that would ... Read more
One of the most important and underappreciated visual artists of the twentieth century, Romare Bearden started as a cartoonist during his college years and emerged as a painter during the 1930s, at the tail end of the Harlem Renaissance and in time to be part of a significant community of black artists supported by the WPA. Though light-skinned and able to "pass, " Bearden embraced his African heritage, choosing to paint social realist canvases of African-American life. After World War II, he became one of a handful of black artists to exhibit in a private gallery-the commercial outlet that would ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
320
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2018
Condition
New
Number of Pages
464
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780195059090
SKU
V9780195059090
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About Mary Schmidt Campbell
Mary Schmidt Campbell is dean emerita of Tisch School of the Arts and University Professor in the Department of Art and Public Policy.
Reviews for Romare Bearden
Her adept weaving of biography and art history is richly detailed, a scholarly life's work.
Amy M. Mooney
An American Odyssey: The Life and Work of Romare Bearden is a fascinating book, lovingly detailed and closely illustrating how its subject had to struggle, both as an artist and as a black person, to establish a place in the ... Read more
Amy M. Mooney
An American Odyssey: The Life and Work of Romare Bearden is a fascinating book, lovingly detailed and closely illustrating how its subject had to struggle, both as an artist and as a black person, to establish a place in the ... Read more