African American Art & Artists
This list is a pathfinder for selected bibliographies, biographies, general works, exhibition catalogs, videos, and selected Web sites. It is not comprehensive or include all materials on this topic found at Western's Library or on the internet. Please search the Library Catalog to locate additional materials. To find articles in journals, select Find Article Databases by Subject from the homepage, or locate indexes from the Art Subject page.
General Sources American Art Directory / 1940 - Ref. N50.A54 Dictionary of Contemporary American Artists Ref. N6512.C854 1994 The Encyclopedia of Living Artists N6512.E45 1997 Oxford Art Online Includes full-text of Grove Art Online with linked images, The Oxford Companion to Western Art, the Encyclopedia of Aesthetics, and The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms. Modern Arts Criticism Ref. N40.M63 Race-ing art history : critical readings in race and art history N5303 .R27 2002 African American Visual Aesthetics: A Postmodernist View N6538.N5 A347 1995 Afro-American Art and Craft Oversize N6538.N5 C5 Black Artists On Art N6538.N5 L4 2 vols. Creating their own image : the history of African-American women artists Oversize N6538.N5 F27 2005 Expressively Black: The Cultural Basis of Ethnic Identity NX512.3.A35 E97 1987 Going Through the Storm: The Influence of African American Art In History NX512.3.A35 S78 1994 The Harlem Renaissance: A Historical Dictionary for the Era NX511.N4 H37 1984 A History of African-American Artists: From 1792 to the Present Oversize N6538.N5 B38 1993 Let's Get It On: The Politics of Black Performance NX512.3.A35 L48 1995
Bibliography The Black Artist In America: An Index to Reproductions Ref. N6538.N5 T46 1991 Black Artists in the United States: An Annotated Bibliography of Books, Articles, and Dissertations on Black Artists, 1779-1979 N6538.N5 D33 1980 The Complete Annotated Resource Guide to Black American Art: Books, Doctoral Dissertations, Exhibition Catalogs, Periodicals, Films, Slides, Large Prints, Speakers, Filmstrips, Video Tapes, Black Museums, Art Galleries, and Much More N6538.N5 H6 250 Years of Afro-American Art: An Annotated Bibliography Ref. N6538.N5 I38
Biography Afro-American Artists; A Bio-Bibliographical Directory N6538.N5 C42 Black artists of the new generation N6538.N5 F29 An Index to Black American Artists N6538.N5 S24 1972 Free Within Ourselves: African-American Artists In the Collection of the National Museum of American Art N6538.N5 P44 1992 Gumbo Ya Ya: An Anthology of Contemporary African-American Women Artists Ref. N6538.N5 G85 1995 A History of African-American Artists: From 1792 to the Present Oversize N6538.N5 B38 1993 Six Black Masters of American Art N6538.N5 B4 Twentieth-Century African-American Writers and Artists NX512.3.A35 H43 1991
Exhibition Catalogs African-American Artists, 1880-1987: Selections from the Evans-Tibbs Collection N6538.N5 M35 1989 African-American artists, 1929-1945 : prints, drawings, and paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art N6538.N5 M47 2003 Afro-American Tradition In Decorative Arts N6538.N5 V57 Black Art Ancestral Legacy: The African Impulse in African-American Art N6538.N5 B525 1989 Black Folk Art in America, 1930-1980 N6538.N5 L58 1982 Black History/Black Vision: The Visionary Image in Texas N6538.N5 A34 1989 Contemporary Black Artists In America N6538.N5 D58 Free Within Ourselves: African-American Artists in the Collection of the National Museum of American Art N6538.N5 P44 1992 Gathered Visions: Selected Works by African American Women Artists N6538.N5 H26 1991 Harlem On My Mind: Cultural Capital of Black America, 1900-1968 F128.68.H3 S3 1979 Harlem Renaissance: Art of Black America Oversize N6538.N5 H286 1987 Next Generation: Southern Black Aesthetic N6538.N5 N46 1990 A Shared Heritage: Art By Four African Americans N6538.N5 T37 1996 Ten Afro-American Artists of the Nineteenth Century N6538.N5 P62
Web Sites African American Art: links to galleries African American Art on the Internet Black/African Resources
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