ABSTRACT

This Companion authoritatively points to the main areas of enquiry within the subject of African American art history.

 The first section examines how African American art has been constructed over the course of a century of published scholarship. The second section studies how African American art is and has been taught and researched in academia. The third part focuses on how African American art has been reflected in art galleries and museums. The final section opens up understandings of what we mean when we speak of African American art.

This book will be of interest to graduate students, researchers, and professors and may be used in American art, African American art, visual culture, and culture classes.

chapter

Introduction

section Section I|1 pages

Historical Framings

chapter 1|13 pages

“History Must Restore What Slavery Took Away”

Freeman H. M. Murray, Double-Consciousness, and the Historiography of African American Art History

chapter 8|10 pages

Confessions of an Unintended Reader

African American Art, American Art, and the Crucible of Naming

chapter 9|11 pages

On Display

The Art of African American Photography

chapter 10|12 pages

When Black Experimentalism Became Black Power

The Black Arts Movement and Its Legacies

section Section II|1 pages

Within the Academy

chapter 11|14 pages

The Washington Renaissance

Black Artists and Modern Institutions

chapter 13|13 pages

The Atlanta University Center

A Nucleus of Visual Art

chapter 14|14 pages

African American Abstraction

chapter 15|11 pages

Within/Against

Circuits and Networks of African American Art in California

chapter 16|10 pages

Black Grace

The Religious Impulse in African American Art

chapter 18|10 pages

Getting to a Baseline on Identity Politics

The Marxist Debate

section Section III|1 pages

Curatorial Histories and Strategies

chapter 22|11 pages

Ain’t No Stoppin’ Us Now

African American Artists in Philadelphia since 1940

chapter 24|12 pages

Status and Presence

African American Art in the International Arena

chapter 27|14 pages

Black/Folk/Art

Shapeshifting Roles of “the Folk” in African American Art History

chapter 28|11 pages

The Artist and the Archive

African American Art

chapter 30|9 pages

“Feeling for my People”

Visualizing Resistance, Radicalism, and Revolution

section Section IV|1 pages

Historical, Modern, and Contemporary Considerations

chapter 31|7 pages

Unruly Polyvocality

Networks of Black Performance Art

chapter 32|12 pages

“Can You Get to That”

The Funk of “Conceptual-Type Art”

chapter 33|12 pages

Picturing Freedom

The Legacy of Representing Black Womanhood

chapter 34|11 pages

The Printed Image

Process and Influences in African American Art

chapter 36|11 pages

African American Artists and the Art Market

A Dream Deferred

chapter 37|11 pages

Black Women Curators

A Brief Oral History of the Recent Past

chapter 38|10 pages

Breaking Ground

Constructions of Identity in African American Art 1

chapter 40|9 pages

African American Art History

Some Concluding Considerations