Beauty born of struggle : the art of Black Washington : [conférence "Le monde de l'art afro-américain à Washington au XXe siècle", organisée par le Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, National gallery of Art, tenue les 16 et 17 mars 2017 à Washington]
Bibliographie
- Auteurs : Stewart Jeffrey C. (1950-....) ; Center for advanced study in the visual arts ;
- ISBN : 978-0-300-26710-5, 0-300-26710-X
- Sujets : Artistes noirs américains -- Washington D. C. (Etats-Unis) 20e siècle, Arts noirs américains, Noirs américains, Actes de congrès, Ouvrages illustrés, Howard university gallery of art, The Phillips Collection, Museum of African art
- Comprend : The art of Black Washington
- Langue(s) : Anglais
- Description matérielle : 1 volume (356 pages), : Illustrations en noir et en couleurs, couverture illustrée en couleurs, 29 cm
- Pays de publication : États-Unis
- Collection (notice d'ensemble) : Studies in the history of art, 83,, 0091-7338, Symposium papers, LX,
Notes
Contributions issues de la conférence 'Le monde de l'art afro-américain à Washington au XXe siècle', organisée par le Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, National gallery of Art, et parrainé par la Wyeth Foundation for American Art et les Arthur Vining Davis Foundations. La conférence s'est tenue les 16 et 17 mars 2017 à Washington ; Notes bibliographiques. Index
Résumé
In a twentieth century during which modern art largely abandoned beauty as its imperative, a group of Black artists from Washington, DC, made beauty the center of their art making. This book highlights these influential artists, including David C. Driskell, Sam Gilliam, Lois Mailou Jones, and Alma Thomas, in the context of what Jeffrey C. Stewart describes as the Washington Black Renaissance. Vibrant histories of key District institutions and the city's communities of educators, critics, and collectors animate a nuanced consideration of the evolution of an aesthetic dialectic from the 1920s up to the present day. The fifteen essays in the volume are grounded by voices from a live artist panel at the National Gallery of Art in 2017, which included Lilian Thomas Burwell, Floyd Coleman, David C. Driskell, Sam Gilliam, Keith Morrison, Martin Puryear, Sylvia Snowden, and Lou Stovall--quatrième de couverture