Proceedings of a symposium organized by the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, National Gallery of Art which was held Oct. 24-25, 2003 in Washington. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Introduction : you can't always do things the same way / Ruth Fine and Jacqueline Francis -- Ralph Ellison's Romare Bearden / Darby English -- Heroic moments of modernity : Romare Bearden, Carlos Enriquez, and the poetic lament / Rocio Aranda-Alvarado -- Cold War diplomacy and the Civil Rights activism at the First World Festival of Negro Arts / Jody Blake -- We used to say stashed : Romare Bearden paints the blues / Robert G. O'Meally -- Bearden, theater, film, dance / Richard A. Long -- Bearden in The crisis : illustrating identity and political action / Amy Helene Kirschke -- Bearden's hands / Jacqueline Francis -- Deep waters : rebirth, transcendence, and abstraction in Romare Bearden's Passion of Christ / Kymberly N. Pinder -- Romare Bearden, an indelible imprint / David C. Driskell -- Nurtured and necessary : mothers of invention / Ruth Fine -- The woodshed / Richard J. Powell -- Romare Bearden : on view / Bridget R. Cooks -- Cultural legacies and the transformation of the Cubist collage aesthetic by Romare Bearden, Jacob Lawrence, and other African-American artists / Patricia Hills -- The Negro artist's dilemma : Bearden, Picasso, and pop art / Pepe Karmel.
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