In Her Own Image

In Her Own Image PDF Author: Ingrid Wendt
Publisher: Feminist Press at CUNY
ISBN: 9780912670621
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 340

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Book Description
The work of Western women artists, past and present, is collected here in a stunning array of forms: fiction, poetry, autobiography, essay, journal and letter writing, sculpture, painting, graphics, photography, ceramics, needlework, music, and dance. The unique experience of women artists from diverse national, ethnic, racial, and economic backgrounds is explored from their own viewpoints, as are the relationships between women's social condition and women's art.

In Her Own Image

In Her Own Image PDF Author: Ingrid Wendt
Publisher: Feminist Press at CUNY
ISBN: 9780912670621
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 340

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Book Description
The work of Western women artists, past and present, is collected here in a stunning array of forms: fiction, poetry, autobiography, essay, journal and letter writing, sculpture, painting, graphics, photography, ceramics, needlework, music, and dance. The unique experience of women artists from diverse national, ethnic, racial, and economic backgrounds is explored from their own viewpoints, as are the relationships between women's social condition and women's art.

Art of Engagement

Art of Engagement PDF Author: Peter Selz
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520240529
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 312

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Book Description
'Art of Engagement' focuses on the key role of California's art and artists in politics and culture since 1945. The book showcases many types of media, including photographs, found objects, drawings and prints, murals, painting, sculpture, ceramics, installations, performance art, and collage.

African-American Art

African-American Art PDF Author: Sharon F. Patton
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780192842138
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 328

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

Bluest Nude

Bluest Nude PDF Author: Ama Codjoe
Publisher: Milkweed Editions
ISBN: 1571317554
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 88

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Book Description
Ama Codjoe’s highly anticipated debut collection brings generous light to the inner dialogues of women as they bathe, create art, make and lose love. Each poem rises with the urgency of a fully awakened sensual life. Codjoe’s poems explore how the archetype of the artist complicates the typical expectations of women: be gazed upon, be silent, be selfless, reproduce. Dialoguing with and through art, Bluest Nude considers alternative ways of holding and constructing the self. From Lorna Simpson to Gwendolyn Brooks to Lynette Yiadom-Boakye, contemporary and ancestral artists populate Bluest Nude in a choreography of Codjoe’s making. Precise and halting, this finely wrought, riveting collection is marked by an acute rendering of highly charged emotional spaces. Purposefully shifting between the role of artist and subject, seer and seen, Codjoe’s poems ask what the act of looking does to a person—public looking, private looking, and that most intimate, singular spectacle of looking at one’s self. What does it mean to see while being seen? In poems that illuminate the tension between the possibilities of openness and and its impediments, Bluest Nude offers vulnerability as a medium to be immersed in and, ultimately, shared as a kind of power: “There are as many walls inside me / as there are bones at the bottom of the sea,” Codjoe writes in the masterful titular poem. “I want to be seen clearly or not at all.” “The end of the world has ended,” Codjoe’s speaker announces, “and desire is still / all I crave.” Startling and seductive in equal measure, this formally ambitious collection represents a powerful, luminous beginning.

From My People

From My People PDF Author: Daryl Cumber Dance
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393324976
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 804

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Book Description
A celebration of African American life and culture brings together four hundred years of folklore, traditional tales, recipes, proverbs, legends, folk songs, and folk art.

Black Hunger

Black Hunger PDF Author: Doris Witt
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 1452907315
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 306

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Book Description
Assesses the complex interrelationships between food, race, and gender in America, with special attention paid to the famous figure of Aunt Jemima and the role played by soul food in the post-Civil War period, up through the civil rights movement and the present day. Original.

Blood of the Air

Blood of the Air PDF Author: Ama Codjoe
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780810141711
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Book Description
This book of poems creates a new mythology, repurposing spectacle, stereotype, and song, particularly through several instances of found poetry.

Betye Saar

Betye Saar PDF Author: Jane H. Carpenter
Publisher: Pomegranate
ISBN: 0764923498
Category : Electronic books
Languages : en
Pages : 142

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Book Description
Considered a premier assemblage artist, Betye Saar has been creating inspired pieces since the early 1960s. Her works are in the collections of notable museums like Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City; Museum of Fine Art, Boston; The Studio Museum in Harlem; and San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. She has taught at the University of California and at the Parsons-Otis Institute, both in Los Angeles, and has participated in numerous solo and group exhibitions. Betye Saar is a comprehensive look at Saar's works, from the 1960 print Samsara to the powerful mixed-media assemblage Blackbird (2002), and a dynamic career.

Mammy

Mammy PDF Author: Kimberly Wallace-Sanders
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 0472116142
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 206

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Book Description
A revealing exploration of the origins and meanings of the mammy figure

The Francis Effect

The Francis Effect PDF Author: Tania Bruguera
Publisher: Deep Vellum Publishing
ISBN: 1646051718
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 105

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Book Description
“The Francis Effect was about proposing something completely absurd, as absurd as borders are. If Immigrant Movement was for the thousands of people who went there, The The Francis Effect was just for one person, the pope. But the more people that participated, the more personal it became.” –Tania Bruguera Stemming from a performance that originated at the Guggenheim Museum, The Francis Effect explores Tania Bruguera’s work as an artist, activist, and Cuban immigrant to the US engaging the tension between art’s pragmatic, activist, and aesthetic possibilities. The performance of The Francis Effect follows the guise of a political campaign, aiming to request that the Pope grant Vatican City citizenship to all immigrants and refugees. As a conversational, collaborative project, the resulting book mirrors Bruguera’s artistic practice with essays and conversations from the the curators and Bruguera. In addition, the book-project is embiggened by socially-engaged commissioned essays from art historian Our Literal Speed, sociologist Saskia Sassen, and historian Nicolas Terpstra. A groundbreaking interdisciplinary discussion of borders, Pangaea, sociology, and religious studies, The Francis effect offers art as a vehicle for social change, placing this work in the context of its creative and critical reception.