From Slavery to "The Smithsonian" - The Enduring Legacy of African-American Art and Artists.
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From Slavery to "The Smithsonian"

The Enduring Legacy of African-American Art

 

Welcome to the powerful world of African-American art.  From the tragic reality of slavery to the stepping-out of the Harlem Renaissance and beyond, our SDG will traverse the enduring beauty of African-American art.  Moving forward in time, we will learn about the inclusion of African-American Art on the public stage via the Federal Works Projects, and the first openings of museums that featured the art of Black Americans.  During this expansion, the AfriCobra Coalition gave us the first major art collective for African-Americans, thereby ensuring gallery and museum representation for Black artists.

 

The 50's-60's brought us the Black Power and Civil Rights movement's.  During the 70's we will see how Black artists demanded their rightful place in American culture.  While the 80's belonged to Jean-Michel Basquiat, who was the first black man to achieve superstar status in the art world.  The Nineties were for the elevation and dominance of Black Women such as Kara Walker and Wangchi Mutu.  While the 21st Century heralds the welcoming of Black Artists, such as Kerry James Marshall into the pantheon of World Artists. 

Join us as we explore and learn about the enduring artistic greatness of African-American painters, photographers, and sculptors. 

Weekly Topics

Week 1 - Chapter 1: The Art of Perception: How Art Communicates  pg. 3-12

                 Chapter 2:  Art and Design in the Colonial Era  pg. 15-29


Week 2 - Chapter 3: Federal Period Architecture, Ceramics, Sculpture and Design pg. 31-55

                Charles Paquet, John Hemings, Celestin Glapion, Dutreuil Barjon, David Drake, Thomas Commeraw, Harriet Powers, Elizabeth Keckley                     Face Jugs    


Week 3 - Chapter 4:  19th. Century Neoclassicism  pg. 57-80

               Edmonia Lewis, Joshua Johnson, Will Simpson, Women Artists Friendship Albums, Jules Lion, Patrick Henry Reason

 

Week 4 - Chapter 5: Romanticism to Impressionism in the 19th. Century  pg. 83-114

               Robert S. Duncanson, Edward M. Bannister, Henry O. Tanner, Annie E. Anderson Walker, Calvin S.T. Brent

 

Week 5 - Chapter 6: Modernism and The Harlem Renaissance  pg.. 117-151

               Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller, May Howard Jackson, Sargent Claude Johnson, Nancy Elizabeth Prophet, Lois Mailou Jones, James Van Zee

 

Week 6 - Chapter 7: Social Realism  pg. 151-179

               Charles Alston, Hale Woodruff, Margaret Burroughs, Charles White, Augusta Savage

 

Week 7 - Chapter 8: Mid-20th-Century Transitions and Surrealism  pg. 179-216

               Elizabeth Catlett, Romare Bearden, Jacob Lawrence, John Biggers, Rose Piper, Minnie Evans, Gordon Parks, Ellis Wilson

               Gees Bay Quilters, Clementine Hunter, Madge Gill, Howard Finster 


Week 8 - Chapter  9:  Abstract Expressionism  pg. 217-244

               Norman Lewis, Alma Thomas, Beauford Delany, Sam Gilliam, Richard Mayhew, Al Loving, Betty Blayton, Barbara Chase-Riboud


Week 9 - Chapter 10:   Pop and Agitprop:  The Black Arts Movement  pg. 245-278

                Raymound Saunders, Reginald Gammons, Cliff Joseph, Ademola Olugebefola, Ben F. Jones, Jeff Donaldson, Wadsworth Jarrell,etc.


Week 10 - Chapter 11:  Black Feminist Art:  A Crisis of Race and Sex  pg. 279-300

                Faith Ringgold, Betye Saar, Nellie Mae Rowe, Dana Chandler, Dindga F. McCannon, Emma Amos, Justine Preshe DeVan, Sharon Haggins

 

Week 11 - Chapter 12:  Postmodernism  pg. 301-337

                 Howardena Pindell, Martin Puryear, Terry Adkins, Lorraine O'Grady, Noah Purifoy, Alison Saar, Willie Cole, Carrie Mae Weems

 

Week 12 - Chapter 13:  Neo-Expressionism, The New Abstraction, and Architecture  pg. 339-368

                Basquiat, Kara Walker, Kerry James Marshall, Thorton Dial Sr., Mildren Thompson, Gaye Ellington, Charles Alston, Lois Mailow Jones,

                Marion Perkins, Barkley Hendricks

 

Week 13 - Chapter 14:  Post-Black Art and The New Millennium  pg. 369-398

                Mickalene Thomas, Kehinde Wiley, Mark Bradford, Nick Cave, Camille Norment, Deborah Willis, Jeff Sonhouse, Shinque Smith, Layla Ali

 

Week 14 - Looking to The Future:  Current Artists Who are Pushing Boundaries.  Source Information Online

               Odili Donald Odita,  Njideka Akunyili Crosby, Bisa Buttee, Aaron Douglas, Julie Mehrutu, Charles Gaines, Derrick Adams, Theaster Gates

            


Bibliography

African-American Art-A Visual and Cultural History:  Lisa Farrington

This is our CORE book and the entire course will follow the 14 chapters of this full-color book.  Additional images can be downloaded from the internet.

This book sells for $88.95, but Oxford University Press has agreed to sell the books in bulk to me for a discount of 30%, plus tax/shipping.  Each book will sell for $62.26 + tax/shipping = $69.00

The books will ship to me, and we can arrange a pick-up or meeting to arrange delivery.

Black Art: A Cultural History - Richard J. Powell
A lovely second book with good pictures. Available Used. not required.