The Art of History: African American Women Artists Engage the Past

Lisa Gail Collins

The Art of History: African American Women Artists Engage the Past
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Rutgers University Press
Country
United States
Published
1 March 2002
Pages
224
ISBN
9780813530222

The Art of History: African American Women Artists Engage the Past

Lisa Gail Collins

Lisa Gail Collins examines the work of contemporary African-American women artists at a time when an unprecendented number - photographers, filmmakers, painters, installation and mixed-media artists - have garnered the attention and imagination of the art-viewing public. To better understand the significance of this particular historical moment in American visual arts, Collins focuses on four
problems
that recur when these artists confront their histories: the documentation of truth; the status of the black female body; the relationship between art and cultural contact and change; and the relationship between art and black girlhood. By examining the social and cultural histories which African-American women artists engage, Collins hopes to illuminate a dialogue between past and present image-makers.

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