Riffs and Relations: African American Artists and the European Modernist Tradition
Riffs and Relations: African American Artists and the European Modernist Tradition
Childs, Adrienne L.
product information
Condition: New, UPC: 9780847866649, Publication Date: Sun, March 1, 2020, Type: Hardcover ,
join & start selling
description
7A timely consideration of African-American artists' rich engagement with the history of art from the twentieth century, this book is the winner of the James A. Porter and David C. Driskell Book Award for African American Art History.

Riffs and Relations: African American Artists and the European Modernist Tradition presents works by African American artists of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries together with works by the early-twentieth-century European artists with whom they engaged. Black artists have investigated, interrogated, invaded, entangled, annihilated, or immersed themselves in the aesthetics, symbolism, and ethos of European art for more than a century. The powerful push and pull of this relationship constitutes a distinct tradition for many African American artists who source the master narratives of art history to critique, embrace, or claim their own space. This groundbreaking catalog--accompanying a major exhibition at the Phillips Collection in Washington, D.C.--explores the connections and frictions around modernism in the works of artists such as Romare Bearden, Pablo Picasso, Faith Ringgold, Renee Cox, Robert Colescott, Norman Lewis, Hank Willis Thomas, Carrie Mae Weems and Henri Matisse. The volume explores how blackness has often been conceived from the standpoint of these international and intergenerational connections and presents the divergent and complex works born of these important dialogues.

reviews

Be the first to write a review

member goods

No member items were found under this heading.

notems store

A Girl Planting Seeds: Positive ...

by Love, Ny

Paperback /Paperback

$12.23

American Heart

by Moriarty, Laura

Hardcover /Hardcover

$15.29

I Can Touch the Bottom

by Moore, Michel

Paperback /Paperback

$12.71

Smith Blue

by Dungy, Camille T.

Paperback /Paperback

$14.41

listens & views

Return Policy

All sales are final

Shipping

No special shipping considerations available.
Shipping fees determined at checkout.