Featured Journal
International Review of African American ArtCall Number: Online and in AIB print periodicals.Published by the Hampton University Museum, the oldest African American museum in the United States.
Art History Books
Oxford Art Online - Read about African American art and artists in this compilation of art encyclopedias.
The following books are examples of titles at the Lesley Moriarty Library.
African American Visual Arts: From Slavery to the Present by Call Number: N6538.N5 B47 2008Lesley Moriarty stacks
Creating Their Own Image: The History of African-American Women Artists by Call Number: N6538.N5 F27 2005Lesley Moriarty stacks
History of African-American Artists, From 1792 to the Present (1993) by Call Number: N6538.N5 B38 1993Lesley Moriarty & Sherrill Library
Contemporary Artists
Bearing Witness: Contemporary Works by African American Women Artists (1996) by Call Number: N6538.N5 B43 1996 Lesley Moriarty stacks
Bill Traylor, William Edmondson and the Modernist Impulse by Call Number: N6538.N5 B4 2004Lesley Moriarty stacks
Fred Wilson: Objects & Installations, 1979-2000 by Call Number: N6537.W546 A4 2001Lesley Moriarty stacks
Kara Walker - Artist in Silhouettes
Kara Walker: Starting Out | ART21 "Exclusive"
Watch this episode of the PBS series ART21.
"Kara Walker is best known for exploring the raw intersection of race, gender, and sexuality through her iconic, silhouetted figures. Walker unleashes the traditionally proper Victorian medium of the silhouette directly onto the walls of the gallery, creating a theatrical space in which her unruly cut-paper characters fornicate and inflict violence on one another."
Image Databases
- ARTstor Nearly one million images in of art, architecture, the humanities, and social sciences with a set of tools to view, present, and manage images for research and pedagogical purposes.
Web Links
- North by SouthThe northern migration of African Americans from the Charleston Low Country to Harlemin, from Kenyon College.