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Samella Lewis & Ruth Waddy - Black Artists on Art Vol 1 & 2

£620.00

Publisher: Contemporary Crafts
Year: 1969 / 1971
Format: Softcover
Edition: 1st Edition
Condition: Both Very Good
Pages: 132 / 140
Size: 19 x 26.5 cm

'BLACK ARTISTS ON ART is a book to promote change - change in order that art might function as expression rather than as an institution.'

Samella Lewis and Ruth Waddy's important survey of Afro-American artists active during the 1960s and '70s. The authors were themselves artists. The two volumes are compiled of profiles of black artists, sculptors and photographers, each including an artist's statement, a portrait photograph and reproductions of their works. Featured artists include Ibibio Fundi, Dana C. Chandler Jr, Lois Mailou Jones, Philip Mason, Benny Andrews, Murry Depillars, Dion Henderson, Dale Davis, Jacob Lawrence. Volume 1 is the revised and updated edition