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04588aam a2200469Ii 4500 001 F917D09872D811EDA0B05B7C49ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20221203010154 008 110413s2011 enka b 001 0 eng d 010 $a 2011294652 020 $a 0199767602 020 $a 9780199767601 035 $a (OCoLC)712600445 040 $a Z53 $b eng $c Z53 $d Z53 $d YDXCP $d IAD $d VP@ $d DEBBG $d BDX $d DLC $d OCLCF $d SJY $d PFZ $d OCLCQ $d OCLCO $d SILO 043 $a n-us--- 050 4 $a N6538.N5 $b F27 2011 082 04 $a 704.04208 084 $a LO 94000 $2 rvk 100 1 $a Farrington, Lisa E. 245 10 $a Creating their own image : $b the history of African-American women artists / $c Lisa E. Farrington. 264 1 $a Oxford ; $b Oxford University Press, $c 2011. 300 $a 354 pages : $b illustrations (chiefly color) ; $c 28 cm 500 $a Originally published: 2005. First issued as an Oxford University Press paperback, 2011. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a The image -- Creativity and the era of slavery -- The nineteenth-century professional vanguard -- The Harlem Renaissance and the New Negro -- The New Negro and the New Deal -- Civil rights and Black power -- Black feminist art -- Abstract explorations -- Conceptualism: art as idea -- Vernacular artists: against the odds -- Postmodern pluralism -- "Post-black" art and the new millennium. 520 $a Creating Their Own Image marks the first comprehensive history of African-American women artists, from slavery to the present day. Using an analysis of stereotypes of Africans and African-Americans in western art and culture as a springboard, Lisa E. Farrington here richly details hundreds of important works--many of which deliberately challenge these same identity myths, of the carnal Jezebel, the asexual Mammy, the imperious Matriarch--in crafting a portrait of artistic creativity unprecedented in its scope and ambition. In these lavishly illustrated pages, some of which feature images never before published, we learn of the efforts of Elizabeth Keckley, fashion designer to Mary Todd Lincoln; the acclaimed sculptor Edmonia Lewis, internationally renowned for her neoclassical works in marble; and the artist Nancy Elizabeth Prophet and her innovative teaching techniques. We meet Laura Wheeler Waring who portrayed women of color as members of a socially elite class in stark contrast to the prevalent images of compliant maids, impoverished malcontents, and exotic "others" that proliferated in the inter-war period. We read of the painter Barbara Jones-Hogu's collaboration on the famed Wall of Respect, even as we view a rare photograph of Hogu in the process of painting the mural. Farrington expertly guides us through the fertile period of the Harlem Renaissance and the "New Negro Movement," which produced an entirely new crop of artists who consciously imbued their work with a social and political agenda, and through the tumultuous, explosive years of the civil rights movement. 520 $a Drawing on revealing interviews with numerous contemporary artists, such as Betye Saar, Faith Ringgold, Nanette Carter, Camille Billops, Xenobia Bailey, and many others, the second half of Creating Their Own Image probes more recent stylistic developments, such as abstraction, conceptualism, and post-modernism, never losing sight of the struggles and challenges that have consistently influenced this body of work. Weaving together an expansive collection of artists, styles, and periods, Farrington argues that for centuries African-American women artists have created an alternative vision of how women of color can, are, and might be represented in American culture. From utilitarian objects such as quilts and baskets to a wide array of fine arts, Creating Their Own Image serves up compelling evidence of the fundamental human need to convey one's life, one's emotions, one's experiences, on a canvas of one's own making.--From publisher description. 650 0 $a African American art. 650 0 $a African American women artists. 650 7 $a African American art. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00799012 650 7 $a African American women artists. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00799474 650 7 $a IdentitaÌtsfindung. $2 gnd 650 7 $a Kunst. $2 gnd 650 7 $a KuÌnstlerin. $2 gnd 650 7 $a Schwarze Frau. $2 gnd 651 7 $a USA. $2 gnd 651 7 $a USA. $2 swd 648 7 $a Geschichte. $2 swd 941 $a 1 952 $l PQAX094 $d 20231214030206.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=F917D09872D811EDA0B05B7C49ECA4DB 994 $a Z0 $b IOWInitiate Another SILO Locator Search