In "African American Visual Arts" Celeste-Marie Bernier introduces
readers to the sheer diversity, range, and experimental nature of
African American art and artists and considers their relationship
to key motifs within black culture and black experience in North
America. The book traces the major developments in African American
visual culture from its beginnings in the ceramics and textiles of
slave artisans to later contributions in the twentieth and
twenty-first centuries to the fine arts and abstract expressionism,
sculpture, installation art, video art, and computer graphics.
Bernier analyzes the work of twenty-one artists, including
Elizabeth Catlett, Jacob Lawrence, William Edmondson, Howardena
Pindell, Charles Alston, Romare Bearden, Norman Lewis, Betye Saar,
Horace Pippin, and Kara Walker. She highlights key but frequently
neglected and little-discussed black artists, situating their works
within their specific historical and political contexts. Bernier
provides a new understanding of their relationship to fundamental
themes of the black experience such as black stereotyping and
caricature in mainstream discourse, poverty in the inner city, and
the division between the rural and the urban.
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