The 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 hi...

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Other Authors: O'Meally, Robert G., 1948- (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Durham : Duke University Press, 2019.
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Table of Contents:
  • "Pressing on life until it gave back something in kinship" : an introductory essay / Robert O'Meally
  • Putting something over Something Else / Calvin Tomkins
  • Interview with Romare Bearden / Henri Ghent
  • The Negro artist and modern art
  • The Negro artist's dilemma
  • The Journal of Romare Bearden : 1947 to 1949
  • Rectangular structure in my montage paintings
  • The Twenties and the Black Renaissance
  • The 1930s : an art reminiscence
  • Humility
  • Encounters with African art
  • Bearden : Black life on its own terms / August Wilson
  • Abrupt stops and an unexpected liquidity : the aesthetics of Romare Bearden / Toni Morrison
  • The genius of Romare Bearden / Elizabeth Alexander
  • The art of Romare Bearden / Ralph Ellison
  • Bearden / Ralph Ellison
  • Between the shadow and the act / John Edgar Wideman
  • Romare Bearden : African American modernism at mid-century / Kobena Mercer
  • Bearden plays Bearden / Albert Murray
  • The political Bearden / Brent Hayes Edwards
  • Circe in black : Homer, Toni Morrison, Romare Bearden / Farah Jasmine Griffin
  • Conjure and collapse in the art of Romare Bearden / Rachael DeLue
  • Changing, conjuring reality / Richard Powell
  • Romare Bearden's Li'l Dan the Drummer Boy : coloring a story of the Civil War / Robert Burns Stepto
  • Impressions and improvisations : a look at the prints of Romare Bearden / Mary Lee Corlett
  • Bearden's Caribbean dimension / Sally Price and Richard Price
  • Sheer mastery : Romare Bearden's final year / Myron Schwartzman
  • Romare Bearden, an indelible imprint / David C. Driskell.