Creating Their Own Image: The History of African-American Women Artists

by Lisa E. Farrington

Book Overview

Creating Their Own Image marks the first comprehensive history of African-American women artists, from slavery to the present day. Using an analysis of stereotypes of Africans and African-Americans in western art and culture as a springboard, Lisa E. Farrington here richly details hundreds of important works--many of which deliberately challenge these same identity myths, of the carnal Jezebel, the asexual Mammy, the imperious Matriarch--in crafting...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 019516721X
• ISBN13: 9780195167214
• Release Date: December 2004
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 3.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 8.0" x 11.1"