Introduction
Chapter 1: Colonial America and the Young Republic 1700-1820
Introduction
The fight for independence 1775-83
Africa, North America and African-American culture
Plantations
Architecture and the plantation layout
Slave houses
The revival of African culture on the plantations
Life on the plantations
New European-Ameriacn influences
A planter's house in Louisiana
Plantation slave artists and craftsmen
Textiles and patchwork quilts
Folk art
Pottery
Urban slave and free artists and craftsmen
Furniture
Silversmiths
Fine artists
Chapter 2: Nineteenth-Century America, the Civil War and Reconstruction
Introduction
The anti-slavery movement
Free black and slave artisans
Fine artists
Architecture, the decorative arts, and folk art
Urban and rural architecture
Furniture
Metalwork and woodcarving
Pottery
Quilts
Fine arts: Painting, sculpture, and graphic arts
Exhibitions and the viewing public
Abolitionist patronage
Graphic arts
Landscape painting
Neoclassical sculpture
Genre and biblical painting
Chapter 3: Twentieth-Century America and Modern Art 1900-60
Introduction
Civil rights and double-consciousness
The development of a modern American art
African-American culture, the New Negro and art in the 1920s
The Great Migration
The Jazz Age
Expatriates and Paris, the Negro Colony
The New Negro movement
Photography
The New Negro artist
Graphic art
Painting
The patronage of the New Negro artist
State funding and the rise of African-American art
The Federal Arts Project
The legacy of the New Negro movement
Négritude and figurative sculpture
Folk art
American Scene painting
African-American murals
WPA workshops and community art centres
Social realism
Abstract art and modernism in New York
Abstract figurative painting
Patronage and critical debate
American culture post World War II
Folk art
Painting: Expressionism and Surrealism
Abstract Expressionism and African-American art
Primitivism
Early Abstract Expressionism: Bearden, Woodruff, and Alston
Abstract Expressionism
Second generation of Abstract Expressionists 1955-61
Chapter 4: Twentieth-Century America: The Evolution of Black Aesthetci
Introduction
Civil rights and black nationalism
Cultural crisis: Black artist or American artist?
Spiral artists' group 1963-6
Painting
The evolution of a modern black aesthetic
Defining black art
Painting
Sculpture
Art institutions and artists' groups
Mainstream art institutions
Black art aesthetcis
Black art and black power
Black artsists' groups
Towards a new abstraction
Are you black enough?
Painting
Sculpture
The postmodern condition 1980-93
Painting
Video art
Sculpture
Photography
Conclusion
Notes
Llist of Illustrations
Bibliographic Essay
Timeline
Index
Introduction
Chapter 1: Colonial America and the Young Republic 1700-1820:
Introduction: The fight for independence 1775-83; Africa, North America, and African American Culture
Plantations: Architecture and the plantation layout; Slave houses
The revival of African culture on the plantations: Life on the plantations; New European-American influences
A Planter's house in Louisiana - Plantation slave artists and craftsmen: Textiles and patchwork quilts; Folk art; Pottery
Urban Slave Artists and Craftsmen: Furniture; Silversmiths; Fine artists
Chapter 2: Nineteenth-Century America, The Civil War and Reconstruction:
Introduction: The anti-slavery movement; Free black and slave artisans; Fine artists
Architecture, the decorative arts, and folk art: Urban and rural Architecture; Furniture; Metalwork and woodcarving; Pottery; Quilts
Fine arts: Painting, sculpture, and graphic arts: Exhibitions and the viewing public; Abolitionist patronage; Graphic arts; Landscape painting; Neoclassical sculpture; Genre and biblical painting
Chapter 3: Twentieth-Century America and Modern Art 1900-60:
Introduction: Civil rights and double-consciousness; The development of a modern American art
African-American culture, the New Negro and art in the 1920s: The Great Migration; The Jazz Age; Expatriates and Paris, the Negro colony; The New Negro movement; Photography; The New Negro artist; Graphic art; Painting
The patronage of the New Negro Artist
State Funding and the Rise of African-American Art: The Federal Arts Project; The legacy of the New Negro movement: Negritude and figurative sculpture; Folk art; American Scene painting; African-American murals; WPA Workshops and community art centres; Social realism; Abstract art and modernism in New York; Abstract figurative painting; Patronage and critical debate
American culture post World War II: Folk art; Painting: Expressionism and Surrealism
Abstract Expressionism and African-American Art: Primitivism; Early Abstract Expressionism: Bearden, Woodruff, and Alston; Abstract Expressionism; Second generation of Abstract Expressionists 1955-61
Chapter 4: Twentieth-Century America: The Evolution of a Black Aesthetic:
Introduction: Civil rights and black nationalism
Cultural crisis: Black artist or American artist: Spiral artist's group 1964-66; Painting
The evolution of a modern black aesthetic: Defining black art; Painting; Sculpture
Art institutions and the artists' groups: Mainstream art institutions; Black art aesthetics; Black art and black power; Black artists' groups
Towards a New Abstraction: Are you black enough?; Painting; Sculpture
The Postmodern condition 1980-93: Painting; Video art; Sculpture; Photography
Conclusion, Notes, List of Illustrations, Bibliographic Essay, Timeline, Index