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    • Author/Creator:Bernier, Celeste-Marie.
    • Title:African American visual arts : from slavery to the present / Celeste-Marie Bernier.
    • ISBN:9780807832561 (cloth : alk. paper)
      0807832561 (cloth : alk. paper)
      9780807859339 (pbk. : alk. paper)
      0807859338 (pbk. : alk. paper)
    • Published/Created:Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2008.
    • Physical Description:xii, 264 p., 16 p. of plates : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 23 cm.
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    • Format:Book
    • BibliographyIncludes bibliographical references (p. 234-257) and index.
    • Contents:'The slave who paints': beginnings and the visual arts tradition -- 'Establishing an art era' in the Harlem renaissance -- Struggle, survival and early abstraction -- 'Images are weapons': history, narrative and a people's art -- 'Art comes to have a life of its own': aesthetics, experimentation and a new visual language -- 'Racist pathology is the muck': towards a transgressive visual poetics.
    • Subjects:African American art.