Were You There When They Crucified My Lord

by Allan Rohan Crite

One of the best loved of the American spirituals is here interpreted by an artist whose birthright is an authentic understanding of the spirituals. He gives us that understanding in terms of an art having all the appeal of the Negro's conception of religion in its narrative quality, its close emotional identification with religious ideas and events, and its simplicity of feeling.

The thirty-nine black-and-white drawings which compose the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674968247
• ISBN13: 9780674968240
• Release Date: January 1944
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Weight: 5.80 lbs.