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Genre/Form: | Biography Criticism, interpretation, etc |
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Named Person: | Jacob Lawrence; Jacob Lawrence; Jacob Lawrence; Jacob Lawrence |
Material Type: | Biography, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Peter T Nesbett; Michelle DuBois; Patricia Hills |
ISBN: | 029597964X 9780295979649 0295979658 9780295979656 |
OCLC Number: | 44493332 |
Description: | 285 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 31 cm |
Contents: | Introduction / Peter T. Nesbett and Michelle Dubois -- Inside-outside, uptown-downtown: Jacob Lawrence and the aesthetic ethos of the Harlem working-class community / Leslie King-Hammond -- Education of Jacob Lawrence / Elizabeth Hutton Turner -- Critical context of Jacob Lawrence's early works, 1938-1952 / Lizzetta LeFalle-Collins -- Harmonizer of chaos: Jacob Lawrence at midcentury / Richard J. Powell -- Jacob Lawrence's paintings during the protest years of the 1960s / Patricia Hills. Structure of narrative: form and content in Jacob Lawrence's builders paintings, 1946-1998 / Lowery Stokes Sims -- Jacob Lawrence: modernism, race, and community / Paul J. Karlstrom -- Materials and techniques of Jacob Lawrence / Elizabeth Steele -- Identification of binding media and pigments in the paintings of Jacob Lawrence / Michael R. Schilling, Narayan Khandekar, Joy Keeney, and Herant P. Khanijan. |
Responsibility: | edited with an introduction by Peter T. Nesbett, Michelle DuBois ; essays by Patricia Hills [and others]. |
Abstract:
Includes essays by eight distinguished art historians examining the ways in which author's art speaks so powerfully to different audiences. It is the multi-author, probe of the artist's entire career: the nature of his work, his education, the critical climate in which he worked, and his use of materials and techniques.
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