Living Art: The Life of Paul R. Jones, African American Art Collector

by Neil F. Thomas and Margaret L. Andersen

This book is a life history of the African American art collector Paul R. Jones. Living Art presents the life of a man who grew up during the height of Jim Crow segregation in Alabama, the son of parents who embraced the dual ideals of racial pride and racial integration, and who has become one of the nation's leading collectors of African American art. Influenced by his father to mediate conflict and navigate the color line and inspired by...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1611491290
• ISBN13: 9781611491296
• Release Date: July 2009
• Publisher: University of Delaware Press
• Length: 143 Pages