The Romare Bearden Reader brings together a collection of new essays and canonical writings by novelists, poets, historians, critics, and playwrights. The contributors, who include Toni Morrison, Ralph Ellison, August Wilson, Farah Jasmine Griffin, and Kobena Mercer, contextualize Bearden's life and career within the history of modern art, examine the influence of jazz and literature on his work, trace his impact on twentieth-century African American culture, and outline his art's political dimensions. Others focus on specific pieces, such as A Black Odyssey, or the ways in which Bearden used collage to understand African American identity. The Reader also includes Bearden's most important writings, which grant readers insight into his aesthetic values and practices and share his desire to tell what it means to be black in America. Put simply, The Romare Bearden Reader is an indispensable volume on one of the giants of twentieth-century American art.
Contributors. Elizabeth Alexander, Romare Bearden, Mary Lee Corlett, Rachel DeLue, David C. Driskell, Brent Hayes Edwards, Ralph Ellison, Henri Ghent, Farah Jasmine Griffin, Harry Henderson, Kobena Mercer, Toni Morrison, Albert Murray, Robert G. O’Meally, Richard Powell, Richard Price, Sally Price, Myron Schwartzman, Robert Burns Stepto, Calvin Tomkins, John Edgar Wideman, August Wilson
- Cover
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- “Pressing on Life Until It Gave Back Something in Kinship”: An Introductory Essay
- Part I / Life and Times
- Putting Something over Something Else
- Interview with Romare Bearden
- Part II / Writings
- The Negro Artist and Modern Art
- The Negro Artist’s Dilemma
- The Journal of Romare Bearden: 1947 to 1949
- Rectangular Structure in My Montage Paintings
- The Twenties and the Black Renaissance
- The 1930s: An Art Reminiscence
- Humility
- Encounters with African Art
- Part III / Reflections on a Layered Legacy
- Bearden: Black Life on Its Own Terms
- Abrupt Stops and Unexpected Liquidity: The Aesthetics of Romare Bearden
- The Genius of Romare Bearden
- The Art of Romare Bearden
- Bearden
- Between the Shadow and the Act
- Romare Bearden: African American Modernism at Mid-Century
- Bearden Plays Bearden
- The Political Bearden
- Circe in Black: Homer, Toni Morrison, Romare Bearden
- Conjure and Collapse in the Art of Romare Bearden
- Changing, Conjuring Reality
- Romare Bearden’s Li’l Dan the Drummer Boy: Coloring a Story of the Civil War
- Impressions and Improvisations: A Look at the Prints of Romare Bearden
- Bearden’s Caribbean Dimension
- Sheer Mastery: Romare Bearden’s Final Year
- Romare Bearden, an Indelible Imprint
- Selected References
- Index
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- Color Plates
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