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The Romare Bearden reader, Robert G. O'Meally, editor

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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The Romare Bearden reader

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Robert G. O'Meally, editor

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. other focus on specific pieces, such as "A Black Odyssey," or the ways in which Bearden used collage to understand African American identity. This book 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

"Pressing on life until it gave back something in kinship" : an introductory essay / Robert O'Meally -- Putting something over Something Else / Calvin Tomkins -- Interview with Romare Bearden / Henri Ghent -- The Negro artist and modern art -- The Negro artist's dilemma -- The Journal of Romare Bearden : 1947 to 1949 -- Rectangular structure in my montage paintings -- The Twenties and the Black Renaissance -- The 1930s : an art reminiscence -- Humility -- Encounters with African art -- Bearden : Black life on its own terms / August Wilson -- Abrupt stops and an unexpected liquidity : the aesthetics of Romare Bearden / Toni Morrison -- The genius of Romare Bearden / Elizabeth Alexander -- The art of Romare Bearden / Ralph Ellison -- Bearden / Ralph Ellison -- Between the shadow and the act / John Edgar Wideman -- Romare Bearden : African American modernism at mid-century / Kobena Mercer -- Bearden plays Bearden / Albert Murray -- The political Bearden / Brent Hayes Edwards -- Circe in black : Homer, Toni Morrison, Romare Bearden / Farah Jasmine Griffin -- Conjure and collapse in the art of Romare Bearden / Rachael DeLue -- Changing, conjuring reality / Richard Powell -- Romare Bearden's Li'l Dan the Drummer Boy : coloring a story of the Civil War / Robert Burns Stepto -- Impressions and improvisations : a look at the prints of Romare Bearden / Mary Lee Corlett -- Bearden's Caribbean dimension / Sally Price and Richard Price -- Sheer mastery : Romare Bearden's final year / Myron Schwartzman -- Romare Bearden, an indelible imprint / David C. Driskell