Dropping in on Romare Bearden

Dropping in on Romare Bearden

Author: Pamela Geiger Stephens

Publisher:

Published: 2007-01-01

Total Pages: 32

ISBN-13: 9781562905392

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In this sixth book of the Dropping in on... series, Puffer lands in New York City to interview the famous artist Romare Bearden who uses a variety of media to make his unique images with family, urban life, and music themes. 32 pages, hardcover.


Romare Bearden

Romare Bearden

Author: Myron Schwartzman

Publisher: Franklin Watts

Published: 2000-03-01

Total Pages: 143

ISBN-13: 9780531164143

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Recounts the life of the twentieth-century African-American collage artist who used his southern childhood, New York City, jazz, and Paris to influence his bold and meaningful art.


The Art of Romare Bearden

The Art of Romare Bearden

Author: Romare Bearden

Publisher:

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 334

ISBN-13: 9780894683022

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"In addition to reproducing examples of Bearden's well-known collages, photostats, and watercolors, The Art of Romare Bearden includes paintings in gouache and oil, murals, book illustrations, costume designs, and his only known sculpture. Much of this art has been culled from private collections and is rarely seen. Fine's definitive essay, based on new research, is accompanied by shorter essays on the artist's European and African sources, his own writings, and contemporary criticism of his art."--BOOK JACKET.


Romare Bearden in the Homeland of His Imagination

Romare Bearden in the Homeland of His Imagination

Author: Glenda Elizabeth Gilmore

Publisher: UNC Press Books

Published: 2022-03-10

Total Pages: 264

ISBN-13: 1469667878

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Romare Bearden (1911–1988), one of the most prolific, original, and acclaimed American artists of the twentieth century, richly depicted scenes and figures rooted in the American South and the Black experience. Bearden hailed from North Carolina but was forced to relocate to the North when a white mob harassed his family in the 1910s. His family story is a compelling, complicated saga of Black middle-class achievement in the face of relentless waves of white supremacy. It is also a narrative of the generational trauma that slavery and racism inflicted over decades. But as Glenda Gilmore reveals in this trenchant reappraisal of Bearden's life and art, his work reveals his deep imagination, extensive training, and rich knowledge of art history. Gilmore explores four generations of Bearden's family and highlights his experiences in North Carolina, Pittsburgh, and Harlem. She engages deeply with Bearden's art and considers it as an alternative archive that offers a unique perspective on the history, memory, and collective imagination of Black southerners who migrated to the North. In doing so, she revises and deepens our appreciation of Bearden's place in the artistic canon and our understanding of his relationship to southern, African American, and American cultural and social history.


I Live in Music

I Live in Music

Author: Ntozake Shange

Publisher: Stewart, Tabori, & Chang

Published: 1994

Total Pages: 40

ISBN-13:

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Shange's lyrical poem is a tribute to the language of music and the magical, often mystical, rhythms that connect people. Music defines who we are as individuals, the places where we live, and how we exist within our communities. Music is life.Written in a syncopated style that has its own melody, the poem is perfectly married to twenty-one extraordinary and diverse works from Romare Bearden who once said, "I paint in the tradition of the blues."Here is a unique and visionary book that speaks, indeed sings, to both children and adults and is, at once, compelling, profond, and entertaining.


Romare Bearden

Romare Bearden

Author: Sally Price

Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press

Published: 2006-11-21

Total Pages: 196

ISBN-13: 0812239482

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This book relocates Bearden's Caribbean experience to the center of the work he did during the most productive period of his life. Produced in full color, it includes 130 Bearden paintings, almost all Caribbean watercolors and collages, few of which have ever been published.


A Visit to the Country

A Visit to the Country

Author: Herschel Johnson

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers

Published: 1989

Total Pages: 40

ISBN-13:

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While visiting his grandparents in the country, Mike finds an abandoned baby bird, takes care of him until he learns how to fly, and makes an important discovery about when to let go.


My Hands Sing the Blues

My Hands Sing the Blues

Author: Jeanne Walker Harvey

Publisher: Two Lions

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780761458104

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A train journey in Romare Beardens childhood, inspired by one of his collage paintings


The Romare Bearden Reader

The Romare Bearden Reader

Author: Robert G. O'Meally

Publisher: Duke University Press Books

Published: 2019-06-14

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781478000440

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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