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Creating Their Own Image: The History of African-American Women Artists

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Creating Their Own Image: The History of African-American Women Artists - Farrington, Lisa E
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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 ...

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Creating Their Own Image: The History of African-American Women Artists 2011, Oxford University Press, USA

ISBN-13: 9780199767601

Trade paperback

Creating Their Own Image: The History of African-American Women Artists 2004, Oxford University Press, USA, Oxford, England

ISBN-13: 9780195167214

Hardcover