African-American art /

• Κύριος συγγραφέας: Patton, Sharon F. (συγγραφέας.)
• Μορφή: Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Oxford : Oxford University Press, c1998.
• Σειρά: Oxford history of art
• Θέματα: Αφροαμερικάνικη τέχνη; Ηλεκτρονικά βιβλία

 Discusses African American folk art, decorative art, photography, and fine arts. 

 Ch. 1. Colonial America and the Young Republic 1700-1820. Plantations. The revival of African culture on the plantations. A planter's house in Louisiana. Plantation slave artists and craftsmen. Urban slave artists and craftsmen -- Ch. 2. Nineteenth-Century America, the Civil War and Reconstruction. Architecture, the decorative arts, and folk art. Fine arts: Painting, sculpture, and graphic arts -- Ch. 3. Twentieth-Century America and Modern Art 1900-60. African-American culture, the New Negro and art in the 1920s. The patronage of the New Negro artist. State funding and the rise of African-American art. American culture post World War II. Abstract Expressionism and African-American art -- Ch. 4. Twentieth-Century America: The Evolution of a Black Aesthetic. Cultural crisis: Black artist or American artist? The evolution of a modern black aesthetic. Art institutions and artists' groups. Towards a new abstraction. The postmodern condition 1980-93.