PDF/ePub An American Odyssey: The Life and Work of Romare Bearden Writen By Mary Schmidt Campbell

An American Odyssey: The Life and Work of Romare Bearden

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One of the most important and underappreciated visual artists of the twentieth century, Romare Bearden started as a cartoonist during his college years and emerged as a painter during the 1930s, at the tail end of the Harlem Renaissance and in time to be part of a significant community of black artists supported by the WPA. Though light-skinned and able to "pass," Bearden embraced his African heritage, choosing to paint social realist canvases of African-American life. After World War II, he became one of a handful of black artists to exhibit in a private gallery-the commercial outlet that would form the core of the American art world's post-war marketplace. Rejecting Abstract Expressionism, he lived briefly in Paris. After he suffered a nervous breakdown, Bearden returned to New York, turning to painting just as the civil rights movement was gaining ground with the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education and the Montgomery bus boycott. By the time of the March on Washington in 1963,

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Author : Mary Schmidt Campbell

Pages : 464 pages

Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA

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ISBN-10 : 0195059093

ISBN-13 : 9780195059090

 
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