The International Review of African American Art, Vol. 11 No. 3 (1994)

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Editor
Samella Lewis, Ph.D.

Managing Editor
Juliette Bowles

Associate Editor
M. J. Hewitt, Ph.D.

Executive Publisher
William R. Harvey, Ed.D.

In March 1993, The International Review of African American Art advisor, Richard Powell, notified us of the “Image and Identity: The African American Experience in 20^th Century Art” symposium at the University of Delaware.

This issue of The International Review of African American Art is significant in a number of ways: It is a contribution by art historians to an important and still growing area of inquiry within American studies on the relations between “identity politics” and semiotics—an investigation which has been charted and led by literary theorists and philosophers.

The debate on the meaning of visual signs constituted by Black women’s hair styling is intensified by Judith Wilson’s thesis in “Beauty Rites,” which links the hair straightening convention of African American women to a fundamental principle of “anti–naturalism” in traditional African aesthetics.

Several works by Elizabeth Catlett appear here for the first time in print, or in color. Author Melanie Herzog photographed the works at Catlett’s home in Cuernavaca, Mexico.

Articles in this issue by Jeffrey Stewart, Deborah Willis and Paul Rogers were adapted from papers presented at the symposium. These authors had previous publishing commitments which prevented the publication of the original papers here.

—Excerpt from “Foreword” by Wayne Craven & Juliette Bowles

Feature Articles and Contributors:

“Foreword”, Wayne Craven & Juliette Bowles

“Images and Identities: A Brief Introductory Note”, Richard J. Powell, Ph.D.

“Ralph Ellison, the Collage of Romare Bearden and Race: Some Speculations”, Paul Rogers

“Beauty Rites: Towards an Anatomy of Culture in African American Women’s Art”, Judith Wilson

“Elizabeth Catlett in Mexico: Identity and Cross–Cultural Intersections in the Production of Artistic Meaning”, Melanie Herzog, Ph.D.

“Recent Challenges in the Study of African American Folk Art”,
Lynda Roscoe Hartigan

“Black Colleges: The Development of an African American Visual Tradition”, Floyd W. Coleman, Ph.D.

“Photobiographers”, Deborah Willis

“Black Modernism and White Patronage”, Jeffrey C. Stewart

Bibliographic Details

Title:                                      The International Review of African American Art

Publisher:                            The Hampton University Museum, Hampton, Virginia

Publication Date:              1994

Binding:                                Pictorial Softcover

Book Condition:                Excellent

Book Type:                          Quarterly Magazine

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