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The art of history : African American women artists engage the past / Lisa Gail Collins.

Title
  1. The art of history : African American women artists engage the past / Lisa Gail Collins.
Published by
  1. New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press, c2002.
Author
  1. Collins, Lisa Gail

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Description
  1. xii, 161 p. : ill.; 26 cm.
Summary
  1. This title examines the work of contemporary African-American women artists, focusing on four problems that recur when these artists confront their histories.
Alternative title
  1. African American women artists engage the past
Subject
  1. African American art
  2. African American women artists
  3. African American women in art
Contents
  1. A visual paradox : art and aesthetics in African American thought -- Historic retrievals : confronting visual evidence and the imaging of truth -- Economies of the flesh : representing the Black female body in art -- Visible roots and visual routes : art, Africanisms, and the Sea Islands -- Brown crayons and Black dolls: the art of coming of age.
Owning institution
  1. Harvard Library
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references (p. [147]-155) and index.