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 artist mirrors the Black experience in the United States and Africa on the other side of the Atlantic. In the process, the thesis sheds new light on the significance of Valerie Maynard's work and how she has used some of them to embody the Black quest for freedom and social justice during the Civil Rights struggle of the 1960s and 1970s and beyond.

Name thesis:degree_name

Master of Arts

Level thesis:degree_level

Thesis

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Art History

Year dc:date.available

2005

Author dc:creator

• Getty, Karen Berisford

Contributors dc:contributor

• Dr. Babatunde Lawal

• African-American art
• iconography
• Civil Rights
• female artist
• diaspora art
• sculpture
• linoleum cut
• painting
• Arts and Humanities

Statement dc:rights

• © The Author

Identifier

https://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/847

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:scholarscompass.vcu.edu:etd-1846