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| Title | : | Jacob Lawrence: American Painter |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.29 (711 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0295970111 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 236 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-07-02 |
| Language | : | English |
I paint the things I know about and the things I have experienced. So I paint the American scene.' - Jacob Lawrence, Author of American Painter . The things I have experienced extend into my national, racial, and class group. From the Back Cover 'My pictures express my life and experience
Great I consider this book to be the bible of the work of Jacob Lawrenece. As a collector of Lawrence's work, I must say this book was the first step. I truly believe that this is the one book that captures Jacob Lawrence.
She discusses the cultural and political grounding of 1930s Harlem, effects on artists of the Depression and New Deal, art in New York, all in relations to Lawrence’s long-standing commitment to depicting the history of black Americans and to the narrative series format he adopted to convey it. He was raised in the Depression, and his first art training was through social programs under FDR’s New Deal. Among other subjects, he has dealt with Toussaint L’Ouverture, Harriet Tubman, the community of Harlem, the American South, Nigeria, civil rights, and John Brown. His distinctive cubist-expressionist style and his basic humanist credo remain intact throughout fifty years of changing artistic fashion.The artist’s life encompasses a broad spectrum of experience that formed the character of three American generations. His work is known throughout the world for its depiction of the black American experience from the Civil War to th
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