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OverviewThe Romare Bearden Reader brings together a collection of new essays and canonical writings by novelists, poets, historians, critics, and playwrights. The contributors, who include Toni Morrison, Ralph Ellison, August Wilson, Farah Jasmine Griffin, and Kobena Mercer, contextualize Bearden's life and career within the history of modern art, examine the influence of jazz and literature on his work, trace his impact on twentieth-century African American culture, and outline his art's political dimensions. Others focus on specific pieces, such as A Black Odyssey, or the ways in which Bearden used collage to understand African American identity. The Reader also includes Bearden's most important writings, which grant readers insight into his aesthetic values and practices and share his desire to tell what it means to be black in America. Put simply, The Romare Bearden Reader is an indispensable volume on one of the giants of twentieth-century American art. Contributors. Elizabeth Alexander, Romare Bearden, Mary Lee Corlett, Rachel DeLue, David C. Driskell, Brent Hayes Edwards, Ralph Ellison, Henri Ghent, Farah Jasmine Griffin, Harry Henderson, Kobena Mercer, Toni Morrison, Albert Murray, Robert G. O'Meally, Richard Powell, Richard Price, Sally Price, Myron Schwartzman, Robert Burns Stepto, Calvin Tomkins, John Edgar Wideman, August Wilson Full Product DetailsAuthor: Robert G. O'MeallyPublisher: Duke University Press Imprint: Duke University Press Weight: 0.703kg ISBN: 9781478000440ISBN 10: 1478000449 Pages: 424 Publication Date: 14 June 2019 Audience: General/trade , Professional and scholarly , General , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of Contents"Acknowledgments ix ""Pressing on Life Until It Gave Back Something in Kinship"": An Introductory Essay / Robert G. O'Meally 1 Part I. Life and Times Putting Something over Something Else / Calvin Tomkins 31 Interview with Romare Bearden / Henri Ghent 54 Part II. Writings The Negro Artist and Modern Art / Romare Bearden 87 The Negro Artist's Dilemma / Romare Bearden 91 The Journal of Romare Bearden: 1947 to 1949 / Romare Bearden 99 Rectangular Structure in My Montage Paintings / Romare Bearden 121 The Twenties and the Black Renaissance / Romare Bearden and Harry Henderson 133 The 1930s: An Art Reminiscence / Romare Bearden 156 Humility / Romare Bearden 162 Encounters with African Art / Romare Bearden 164 Part III. Reflections on a Layered Legacy Bearden: Black Life on Its Own Terms / August Wilson 175 Abrupt Stops and an Unexpected Liquidity: The Aesthetics of Romare Bearden / Toni Morrison 178 The Genius of Romare Bearden / Elizabeth Alexander 185 The Art of Romare Bearden / Ralph Ellison 196 Bearden / Ralph Ellison 204 Between the Shadow and the Act / John Edgar Wideman 209 Romare Bearden: African American Modernism at Mid-Century / Kobena Mercer 217 Bearden Plays Bearden / Albert Murray 236 The Political Bearden / Brent Hayes Edwards 256 Circe in Black: Homer, Toni Morrison, Romare Bearden / Farah Jasmine Griffin 270 Conjure and Collapse in the Art of Romare Bearden / Rachael Delue 281 Changing, Conjuring Reality / Richard Powell 296 Romare Bearden's Li'l Dan the Drummer Boy: Coloring a Story of the Civil War / Robert Burns Stepto 307 Impressions and Improvisations: A Look at the Prints of Romare Bearden / Mary Lee Corlett 315 Bearden's Caribbean Dimension / Sally Price and Richard Price 351 Sheer Mastery: Romare Bearden's Final Year / Myron Schwartzman 363 Romare Bearden, an Idelible Imprint / David C. Driskell 379 Selected References 389 Index 393"ReviewsRelatively few titles provide in-depth explorations of the intellectual lives of African American artists. This reader does so in a comprehensive-and compelling-manner, and should be considered an important addition to art and literary criticism collections, useful for artists, musicians, writers, and others. -- Lynora Williams * ARLIS/NA * The varied voices here make this a go-to resource for constructing Bearden's enigmatic, seductively structured art. . . . This is the finest overall consideration of Bearden's ouevre yet, and a fulsome tribute to a justly revered artist. -- Douglas F. Smith * Library Journal * Jazz music, politics, and black culture are the primary themes ofBearden's paintings and collages, while his writing-including the eight examples in this collection-lay bare his aesthetic values and practices. Essays by twenty contributors, from scholar Robert G. O'Meally to novelists Toni Morrison and Ralph Ellison, contextualize Bearden's oeuvre and assess his impact on twentieth-century African American culture. * Art in America * Jazz music, politics, and black culture are the primary themes ofBearden's paintings and collages, while his writing-including the eight examples in this collection-lay bare his aesthetic values and practices. Essays by twenty contributors, from scholar Robert G. O'Meally to novelists Toni Morrison and Ralph Ellison, contextualize Bearden's oeuvre and assess his impact on twentieth-century African American culture. * Art in America * Author InformationRobert G. O’Meally is Zora Neale Hurston Professor of English and Comparative Literature and the Director of the Center for Jazz Studies at Columbia University. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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