Black Artists in America, 9780300283563
Hardcover
Black artists rise: challenging injustice, shaping a century of American art.

Black Artists in America

from the bicentennial to september 11

$114.52

  • Hardcover

    152 pages

  • Release Date

    1 January 2026

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Summary

A Century of Black Art: From the Bicentennial to 9⁄11

This third and final volume in the Black Artists in America series features work from the transitional moment of the late 1970s to the dawn of the twenty-first century.

In the 1980s and 1990s, Black artists in the United States who came of age during the civil rights activity of the preceding decades began experimenting with new media and innovative approaches to artmaking, often as a way of questioning l…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780300283563
ISBN-10:0300283563
Author:Earnestine Lovelle Jenkins, Ellen Daugherty, Julie L. McGee, Kevin Sharp
Publisher:Yale University Press
Imprint:Yale University Press
Format:Hardcover
Number of Pages:152
Release Date:1 January 2026
Weight:1.12kg
Dimensions:283mm x 225mm
About The Author

Earnestine Lovelle Jenkins

Ellen Daugherty is assistant curator at the Dixon Gallery and Gardens.

Earnestine Lovelle Jenkins is professor of art history at the University of Memphis. She is the author of the previous volumes in this series, Black Artists in America: From the Great Depression to Civil Rights (2022) and Black Artists in America: From Civil Rights to the Bicentennial (2024).

Julie L. McGee is associate professor of art history and Africana studies at the University of Delaware.

Kevin Sharp is the Linda W. and S. Herbert Rhea Director of the Dixon Gallery and Gardens.

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