| Description |
1 online resource (xv, 366 pages) : illustrations (some color) |
| Contents |
"Selling that stuff": advertising art and early blues on 78s / Paul Oliver -- Blues on the brush: Rose Piper's blues and Negro folk songs paintings of the 1940s / Graham Lock -- Michael Cummings: stitching in tempo -- "Pure eye music": Norman Lewis, abstract expressionism, and bebop / Sara Wood -- Sam Middleton: the painter as improvising soloist -- The enigma of Bob Thompson / Richard H. King -- Wadsworth Jarrell and AFRICOBRA: sheets of color, sheets of sound -- "We used to say 'stashed'": Romare Bearden paints the blues / Robert G. O'Meally -- "Blues and the abstract truth": or, did Romare Bearden really paint jazz? / Johannes Völz -- Joe Overstreet: light in darkness -- Royalty, heroism, and the streets: the art of Jean-Michel Basquiat / Robert Farris Thompson -- Ellen Banks: the geometries of the score -- "And you slip into the breaks and look around": jazz and everyday life in the photographs of Roy DeCarava / Richard Ings -- A Jackson in the house: musicians talk painters |
| Summary |
The widespread presence of jazz and blues in African American visual art has long been overlooked. 'The Hearing Eye' makes the case for recognizing the music's importance, both as formal template and as explicit subject matter |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
African American art -- 20th century
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Art and music -- United States -- History -- 20th century
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Jazz in art.
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Blues (Music) in art.
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ART -- History -- General.
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African American art.
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Art and music.
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Blues (Music) in art.
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Jazz in art.
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Beziehung
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Jazz
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Malerei
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Blues
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United States.
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Schwarze.
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USA.
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| Genre/Form |
History.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Lock, Graham, 1948-
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Murray, David, 1945-
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| ISBN |
9780199712663 |
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0199712662 |
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9780199852215 |
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0199852219 |
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