Painting Harlem modern : the art of Jacob Lawrence / Patricia Hills.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hills, Patricia
Other Authors: Lawrence, Jacob, 1917-2000
Language:English
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, 2009.
Subjects:
Lawrence, Jacob, > 1917-2000 > Criticism and interpretation.
Lawrence, Jacob, > 1917-2000 > Themes, motives.
Physical Description:x, 354 pages : illustrations
Format: Book
Contents:
  • The artist's place in Harlem. Harlem's artistic community in the 1930s
  • Patrons and the making of a professional artist
  • Themes and issues. African American storytelling: Toussaint l'Ouverture and Harriet Tubman
  • The great migration in memory, pictures, and text
  • Confrontations with the Jim Crow South in the 1940s
  • Home in Harlem: tenements and streets
  • The double consciousness of masks and masking
  • The paintings of the protest years, 1955/70
  • Epilogue
  • Appendix: Jacob Armstead Lawrence and his family.