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Romare Bearden in the Homeland of His Imagination: An Artist's Reckoning with the South

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Romare Bearden in the Homeland of His Imagination: An Artist's Reckoning with the South - Gilmore, Glenda Elizabeth
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"Romare Bearden (1911-1988), one of the most prolific, original, and acclaimed American artists of the twentieth century, richly depicted scenes and figures rooted in the American South and the Black experience. Bearden hailed from North Carolina but was forced to relocate to the North when a white mob harassed [his family] in the 1910s. His family story is a compelling, complicated saga of Black middle-class achievement in the face of relentless waves of white supremacy. It is also a narrative of the generational trauma ...

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Romare Bearden in the Homeland of His Imagination: An Artist's Reckoning with the South 2022, University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill

ISBN-13: 9781469667867

Hardcover