"Romare Bearden, American Modernist" by Ruth Fine

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Romare Bearden, American Modernist Ruth Fine, Jacqueline Francis

Series:
Studies in the History of Art Series
Format:
Hardback
Publication date:
01 Mar 2011
ISBN:
9780300121612
Imprint:
NGW-Stud Hist Art
Dimensions:
304 pages: 279 x 229mm
Illustrations:
95 b-w + 105 color illus.
Sales territories:
World

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Romare Bearden (1911-1988) was a modernist artist renowned for his experimental and socially conscious works. Bearden is best known for his paintings and collages but also made significant contributions to the fields of printmaking, theatrical design, film, and other visual formats. While acknowledging the artist's place in African-American art history, where he has received his primary recognition, the fourteen essays collected in this volume seek to establish Bearden's role within the broader framework of American modernism in political, social, philosophical, and aesthetic contexts.

These essays, written by distinguished scholars, track Bearden's cultural concerns and artistic evolution, from his early political cartoons to his important relationships with preeminent practitioners in the fields of literature, music, theater, and dance. His universal themes are viewed through multiple lenses, distinguishing him as a major figure of culturally and socially engaged modernism in the 20th century.

Ruth Fine is curator of special projects in modern art, National Gallery of Art, Washington. Jacqueline Francis is senior lecturer at the California College of the Arts in San Francisco and is a specialist in U.S. modern and contemporary art.

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