Earnestine Lovelle Jenkins

This third and final volume in the Black Artists in America series features work from the transitional moment of the late 1970s to the dawn of the twenty-first century. In the 1980s and 1990s, Black artists in the United States who came of age during the civil rights activity of the preceding decades began experimenting with new media and innovative...

Black Artists in America is the second book in a three-volume series on Black American artists. This volume features work from the 1950s to the 1970s, responding to the cultural, political, and social concerns of the era. During these turbulent decades, Black American artists, responding to increasing civil rights activism, challenged inequities in the art world. The artists created works...

Black Artists in America explores how artists at midcentury addressed the social issues of their day—from Jacob Lawrence to Elizabeth Catlett, Rose Piper to Charles White. This timely book surveys the varied ways in which Black American artists responded to the political, social, and economic climate of the United States from the time of the Great Depression through the landmark...