Designing a New Tradition - Loïs Mailou Jones and the Aesthetics of Blackness

A critical analysis of the art and career of African American painter Lois Mailou Jones (1905-1998). Examines Jones's engagement with African and Afrodiasporic themes as well as the challenges she faced as a black woman artist.

About the author

Rebecca VanDiver is Assistant Professor of African American Art at Vanderbilt University.

Summary

A critical analysis of the art and career of African American painter Loïs Mailou Jones (1905–1998). Examines Jones’s engagement with African and Afrodiasporic themes as well as the challenges she faced as a black woman artist.

Product details

• Authors: Rebecca VanDiver, Rebecca (Assistant Professor of African American Art VanDiver
• Publisher: University Presses
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 09.10.2020
• EAN: 9780271086040
• ISBN: 978-0-271-08604-0
• Dimensions: 203 mm x 254 mm x 23 mm
• Weight: 1293 g
• Illustrations: Raster,schwarz-weiss, Raster, farbig
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Art history; Non-fiction book > Music, film, theatre > Biographies, autobiographies; ART / History / Contemporary (1945-), ART / Individual Artists / Monographs, ART / American / General, Biography: arts & entertainment, Painting & paintings, Individual artists, art monographs, Art & design styles: c 1900 to c 1960, Biography: arts and entertainment, ART / American / African American & Black, Paintings and painting, Relating to African American / Black American people