Description |
192 pages : chiefly color illustrations, portraits ; 27 cm |
Note |
Published in conjunction with the exhibition held at the Kalamazoo Institute of Arts and four other museums, Sept. 15, 2000-Jan., 2004. |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 184-189) and index. |
Contents |
African-American art and contemporary critical practice / Judith M. McWillie -- The end of the outsider / Arthur C. Danto -- Becoming art : life spans, biographies, and the Shelp collection / Grey Gundaker -- Feeling at home with vernacular African-American art / Kinshasha Conwill -- Witnessing : layered meanings in vernacular art / Edmund Barry Gaither -- Witness to history / Leroy Almon ... [et al.] -- Allegorical animals / Thornton Dial Sr. ... [et al.] -- Biblical scenes / Mary Proctor ... [et al.] -- Iconic human figures / Mary Tillman Smith, Archie Byron -- Spiritual and protective messages / John (J.B.) Murray ... [et al.] -- Direct observation / James "Son" Thomas ... [et al.]. |
Subject |
African American art -- Southern States -- Exhibitions.
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Outsider art -- Southern States -- Exhibitions.
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Art, American -- 20th century -- Exhibitions.
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Shelp, Ronald Kent -- Art collections -- Exhibitions.
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Shelp, June -- Art collections -- Exhibitions.
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Art -- Private collections -- United States -- Exhibitions.
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Added Author |
Conwill, Kinshasha.
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Kalamazoo Institute of Arts.
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ISBN |
0810944847 |
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