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Title Testimony : vernacular art of the African-American south : the Ronald and June Shelp collection / essays by Kinshasha Conwill .. [and others]..

Publication Info. New York : H.N. Abrams in association with Exhibitions International and the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, [2001]
©2001

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 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  704.0396 T344T    Check Shelf
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.
Outsider art -- Southern States -- Exhibitions.
Art, American -- 20th century -- Exhibitions.
Shelp, Ronald Kent -- Art collections -- Exhibitions.
Shelp, June -- Art collections -- Exhibitions.
Art -- Private collections -- United States -- Exhibitions.
Added Author Conwill, Kinshasha.
Kalamazoo Institute of Arts.
ISBN 0810944847
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