Black Artists in Their Own Words

Name: Black Artists in Their Own Words
Brand: University of California Press

University of California Press

Black Artists in Their Own WordsAuthor(s): Lisa E. Farrington\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: University of California Press, United States\nImprint: University of California Press\nISBN-13: 9780520384125, 978-0520384125\nSynopsis\n\""A keen and insightful window into a rich artistic legacy.\""Publishers Weekly\n\n The first book to center Black artists' voices on Black aesthetics, revealing a century of evolving relationships to race, identity, and art.\n What is Black art? No one has thought harder about that question than Black artists, yet their perspectives have been largely ignored. Instead, their stories have been told by intellectuals like W. E. B. Du Bois and Alain Locke, who defined \""a school\"" of Black art in the early twentieth century. For the first time, Black Artists in Their Own Words offers an insightful corrective.\n Esteemed art historian Lisa Farrington gathers writing spanning a century across the United States, the Caribbean, and the African continentincluding fro.