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Article: Two Centuries of Black Creativity
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- January 23, 1994
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A History of African-American Artists From 1792 to the Present.
By Romare Bearden and Harry Henderson. Pantheon. $65.
Here is a landmark work both in the fields of art history and of
African-American studies. As the authors - artist Romare Bearden and
writer Harry Henderson - note, previous art-history texts have at the
most covered only one or two African-American artists. And to judge
from some art history texts, the authors marvel, "the first African
American has yet to pick up the brush."
This voluminous effort proves this is hardly the case. The
earliest known work by an African American dates back to 1792, and
African-American artists have been producing steadily ever since.
Over ...