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Artists such as Jean-Michel Basquiat, Romare Bearden, Elizabeth Catlett, Sam Gilliam, Glenn Ligon, Faith Ringgold, Kara Walker, Carrie Mae Weems, and many others created works that celebrated their racial identity and fought exclusion and prejudices in the establishment. This book considers the ways that the artists of this generation challenged cultural, environmental, political, racial, and social issues of the last decades of the twentieth century.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eBlack Artists in America: From the Bicentennial to September 11\u003c\/em\u003e is the final volume in the three-volume series that traces how Black artists have responded to the social issues of their time. Beautifully illustrated with 150 paintings, sculptures, and works on paper, this volume completes the story of a century of artmaking.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003ePublished in association with the Dixon Gallery and Gardens\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eExhibition Schedule:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCrocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e(October 5, 2025–January 11, 2026)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDixon Gallery and Gardens, Memphis, TN\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e(January 25–March 29, 2026)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46871355457772,"sku":"9780300283563","price":83.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/24833373482294.jpg?v=1759875459"},{"product_id":"black-artists-in-america-by-earnestine-lovelle-jenkins-9780300273465","title":"Black Artists in America","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eBlack Artists in America\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eDuring these turbulent decades, Black American artists, responding to increasing civil rights activism, challenged inequities in the art world. The artists created works that celebrated their racial identity, connected with Black audiences, and participated in the struggle for political, economic, and social equality. The establishment of artist collectives, such as Spiral, and museums devoted to Black art, like the Studio Museum in Harlem, alongside the emergence of art historians and critics such as David Driskell and Linda Goode Bryant, marked early steps to bring Black art into broader artistic discourse.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe book features 140 colour illustrations of paintings, sculptures, and works on paper by celebrated artists such as Romare Bearden, Sam Gilliam, Jacob Lawrence, Norman Lewis, Howardena Pindell, and Alma Thomas, as well as by under-recognised artists. Essays provide an overview of the period and in-depth examinations of James A. Porter, an artist and art historian credited with establishing the field of African American art history, and Merton D. 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Featuring paintings, sculptures, and works on paper by artists including Jacob Lawrence, Horace Pippin, Augusta Savage, Charles White, Elizabeth Catlett, Norman Lewis, Walter Augustus Simon, Loïs Mailou Jones, and more, the book recognises the contributions Black artists made to Social Realism and abstraction as they debated the role of art in society and community.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBlack artists played a vital part in midcentury art movements, and the inclusive policies of government programs like the Works Progress Administration brought more of these artists into mainstream circles.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn three chapters, Earnestine Jenkins discusses the work of Black artists during this period; the perspective of Black women artists with a focus on the sculpture of Augusta Savage; and the pedagogy of Black American art through the art and teaching of Walter Augustus Simon.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47470107361516,"sku":"9780300260908","price":71.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9780300260908-black-artists-in-america.jpg?v=1775212485"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/collections\/earnestine-lovelle-jenkins.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}