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Designing a New Tradition:

Lois Mailou Jones and the Aesthetics of Blackness
  • ISBN-13: 9780271086040
  • Publisher: PENN STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS
    Imprint: PENN STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS
  • By Rebecca VanDiver
  • Price: AUD $130.00
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  • Availability: This book is temporarily out of stock, order will be despatched as soon as fresh stock is received.
  • Local release date: 14/12/2020
  • Format: Hardback 232 pages Weight: 0g
  • Categories: Photography & photographs [AJ]
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A critical analysis of the art and career of African American painter Loïs Mailou Jones (1905–1998). Examines Jones’s engagement with African and Afrodiasporic themes as well as the challenges she faced as a black woman artist.

 


List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Claiming Middle Ground

1. Seeking Success: School, Society, and Career Aspirations

2. Routes to Roots: From Black Washington to Black Paris

3. Diasporic Directions: Haiti, Collage, and Composite Aesthetics

4. In and Out: Africa and the Academy

Conclusion: Composite Naming Practices and Art Histories

Notes

Bibliography

Index


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