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The art of Romare Bearden

Author: Romare Bearden; Ruth Fine; Mary Lee Corlett; National Gallery of Art (U.S.); et al
Publisher: Washington : National Gallery of Art, ©2003.
Edition/Format:   Book : Biography : EnglishView all editions and formats
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"Romare Bearden (1911-1988) was one of America's great artistic innovators, blazing his own trail in a time of turbulent cultural change. While his work offers an invaluable view of mid-twentieth-century African-American experience, it has also come to occupy a significant place in the wider history of American art and speaks to the universal concerns of artists everywhere." "Born in North Carolina and coming of age  Read more...
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Genre/Form: Exhibitions
Additional Physical Format: Online version:
Bearden, Romare, 1911-1988.
Art of Romare Bearden.
Washington : National Gallery of Art, c2003
(OCoLC)606988825
Named Person: Romare Bearden; Romare Bearden; Romare Bearden
Material Type: Biography, Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Romare Bearden; Ruth Fine; Mary Lee Corlett; National Gallery of Art (U.S.); et al
ISBN: 0894683020 9780894683022 0810946408 9780810946408
OCLC Number: 52269794
Notes: "Exhibition dates: National Gallery of Art, Sept. 14, 2003-Jan. 4, 2004 and several other venues in the U.S."
Description: 334 p. : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 28 cm.
Contents: Foreword / Earl A. Powell III --
Acknowledgments / Ruth Fine --
Lenders to the exhibition --
To Romare Bearden / Derek Walcott --
Romare Bearden : the spaces between / Ruth Fine --
Bearden's musée imaginaire / Sarah Kennel --
Bearden's dialogue with Africa and the avant-garde / Nnamdi Elleh --
Reading Bearden / Jacqueline Francis --
A refracted image : selected exhibitions and reviews of Bearden's work / Abdul Goler --
Romare Bearden : a chronology / Rocío Aranda-Alvarado and Sarah Kennel with Carmenita Higginbotham --
Chronological list of works in the exhibition.
Responsibility: Ruth Fine ; with contributions by Mary Lee Corlett ... [et al.].
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"Romare Bearden (1911-1988) was one of America's great artistic innovators, blazing his own trail in a time of turbulent cultural change. While his work offers an invaluable view of mid-twentieth-century African-American experience, it has also come to occupy a significant place in the wider history of American art and speaks to the universal concerns of artists everywhere." "Born in North Carolina and coming of age in Harlem during the Harlem Renaissance, Bearden was surrounded from an early age by writers, musicians, artists, and intellectuals who presided over an extraordinary period of creative ferment. With keen aesthetic sensitivity, the insight of a philosopher, and the courage of a pioneer, Bearden absorbed images and ideas that he later wove into his colorful, complex, and imaginative art. His work is infused with the sounds, intervals, and rhythms of jazz and the blues; the majesty and mystery of popular religion and obscure ritual; echoes of European old master painting and African art; and the atmosphere of the places he loved." "In addition to reproducing examples of Bearden's well-known collages, photostats, and watercolors, The Art of Romare Bearden includes paintings in gouache and oil, murals, book illustrations, costume designs, and his only known sculpture. Much of this art has been culled from private collections and is rarely seen. Fine's definitive essay, based on new research, is accompanied by shorter essays on the artist's European and African sources, his own writings, and contemporary criticism of his art."--Jacket.

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