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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"African-American art"”.
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From the Old to the New World: The Transformation of Kongo Minkisi in African American Art
… contributed significantly to the development of African American artistic and spiritual culture. In the Caribbean, aspects of minkisi have been retained in the creolized spiritual beliefs of Haitian Vodou, Cuban Palo Monte Mayombe and Brazilian Candomble. In North America, evidence of Kongo …
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New Negro Artists and Post-War American Modernism: A Reconsideration
The study of American modernism tends to move through a series of major phases, with World War II as a historical divider between movements such as Regionalism and American Scene and later developments in formal abstraction associated with the New York School. Many scholars have adhered to this …
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Searching for the Transatlantic Freedom: The Art of Valerie Maynard
This thesis focuses on an African-American female artist, Valerie Maynard, examining how she synthesizes African and American elements in her works. It provides detailed formal and iconographical analyses, revealing concealed meanings and paying special attention to those works with which the …
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John Daniels Carter: a biographical and musical profile with original piano transcription of Requiem Seditiosam: In Memoriam Medgar Evers
African-American pianist and composer John Daniels Carter (1932-1981) is widely recognized for his Cantata for voice and piano (also arranged for voice and orchestra), Carter’s only published work. However, relatively little information has been published about Carter’s life, his compositional …
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Critical Cultural Consciousness in the Classroom Through an Art-Centered Curricular Unit, "Respect and Homage."
… structure, content and outcome of an art-centered unit developed for 5th grade students. This unit was designed to be an example/model of specific tools and procedures that teachers can use in the art and general classroom to promote critical cultural consciousness, which is the …