Black Artists in Their Own Words by Farrington, Lisa E.
Black Artists in Their Own Words by Farrington, Lisa E.

Black Artists in Their Own Words

The first book to center Black artists' voices on Black aesthetics, revealing a century of evolving relationships...
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Author: Lisa E. Farrington
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Language: English
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Black Artists in Their Own Words by Farrington, Lisa E.

Black Artists in Their Own Words

$66.35
Black Artists in Their Own Words by Farrington, Lisa E.

Black Artists in Their Own Words

$66.35
Author: Lisa E. Farrington
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Description
The first book to center Black artists' voices on Black aesthetics, revealing a century of evolving relationships to race, identity, and art.

What is Black art? No one has thought harder about that question than Black artists, yet their perspectives have been largely ignored. Instead, their stories have been told by intellectuals like W. E. B. Du Bois and Alain Locke, who defined "a school" of Black art in the early twentieth century. For the first time, Black Artists in Their Own Words offers an insightful corrective.

Esteemed art historian Lisa Farrington gathers writing spanning a century across the United States, the Caribbean, and the African continent--including from renowned artists Henry Tanner, Nancy Elizabeth Prophet, Romare Bearden, Wifredo Lam, Renee Cox, and many more--that reveals both evolutions and equivocations. Many artists, especially during the civil rights era, have embraced Black aesthetics as a source of empowerment. Others prefer to be artists first and Black second, while some have rejected racial identification entirely. Here, Black artists reclaim their work from reductive critical narratives, sharing the motivations underlying their struggles to create in a white-dominated art world.

Author: Lisa E. Farrington
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 09/02/2025
Pages: 416
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.75lbs
Size: 9.90h x 7.00w x 1.20d
ISBN: 9780520384125


Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 07/01/2025

About the Author
Lisa Farrington is Distinguished Professor Emerita at the City University of New York, past Associate Dean of Fine Arts at Howard University, and author of Creating Their Own Image: The History of African-American Women Artists and African-American Art: A Visual and Cultural History.
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