You are not connected to the Alabama State University Library network. Access to online content and services may require you to authenticate with your library.
Off-Campus Access

Find a copy in the library

WorldCat
Find it in libraries globally

Finding libraries that hold this item...
Details
Genre/Form: | Biography Biographies |
---|---|
Named Person: | Charles White; Charles White; Charles White; Charles (Künstler White |
Material Type: | Biography |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Andrea Barnwell Brownlee; Charles White |
ISBN: | 0764921290 9780764921292 |
OCLC Number: | 49952421 |
Notes: | Includes index. |
Description: | xii, 116 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm. |
Contents: | Chapter 1 Chicago: The Early Years 3 -- Chapter 2 From New York to Los Angeles 41 -- Chapter 3 At Home in California 61. |
Series Title: | David C. Driskell series of African American art, v. 1. |
Responsibility: | Andrea D. Barnwell. |
More information: |
Abstract:
One of the greatest American artists of the twentieth century, Charles White (1918-1979) --with amazing spirit, vision, and brilliance--devoted both his life and work to portraying the African American community. With pencil and brush, in black and white or in color, he captured not only the poverty, strife, and despair of the black people but their strength of community, the joy of enlightenment, and the tenderness of kinship as well, rejecting the usual stereotypes of black people as inferior. His canvases, woodcuts, monumental drawings, and murals convey his strong social consciousness and impart the inherent dignity of his subjects.Andrea Barnwell chronicles the highlights of White's career, discusses several of the artist's famous works, and introduces many works from private collections that never before have been examined. Although White's works are in the collections of major museums and libraries, including Hampton University Museum, Hampton, Virginia; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Howard University Gallery of Art, Washington; the Art Institute of Chicago; and the Flint Institute of Art, his place in the annals of art history has never been fully realized.

Reviews
User-contributed reviews
Add a review and share your thoughts with other readers.
Be the first.
Add a review and share your thoughts with other readers.
Be the first.
Tags
Add tags for "Charles White".
Be the first.
Similar Items
Related Subjects:(11)
- White, Charles, -- 1918-1979.
- African American artists -- Biography.
- Artistes noirs américains -- Biographies.
- African American artists.
- Künstler
- Biografie
- Bildband
- White, Charles, -- (1918-1979) -- Critique et interprétation.
- Art -- États-Unis -- 20e siècle.
- White, Charles (Künstler, -- 1918-1979)
- USA.
User lists with this item (4)
- Kinsey Exhibition Inspired Display List(173 items)
by randalldg updated 2022-01-27
- Black Art Project 1(485 items)
by george2010 updated 2020-08-21
- DCD PUBLICATIONS(155 items)
by mcgee updated 2019-07-15
- Charles White(10 items)
by dnoor updated 2016-09-12