x, 413 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some colour) ; 23 cm
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index
Contents:
"Pressing on life until it gave back something in kinship" : an introductory essay / Robert O'Meally Putting something over Something Else / Calvin Tomkins Interview with Romare Bearden / Henri Ghent The Negro artist and modern art The Negro artist's dilemma The Journal of Romare Bearden : 1947 to 1949 Rectangular structure in my montage paintings The Twenties and the Black Renaissance The 1930s : an art reminiscence Humility Encounters with African art Bearden : Black life on its own terms / August Wilson Abrupt stops and an unexpected liquidity : the aesthetics of Romare Bearden / Toni Morrison The genius of Romare Bearden / Elizabeth Alexander The art of Romare Bearden / Ralph Ellison Bearden / Ralph Ellison Between the shadow and the act / John Edgar Wideman Romare Bearden : African American modernism at mid-century / Kobena Mercer Bearden plays Bearden / Albert Murray The political Bearden / Brent Hayes Edwards Circe in black : Homer, Toni Morrison, Romare Bearden / Farah Jasmine Griffin Conjure and collapse in the art of Romare Bearden / Rachael DeLue Changing, conjuring reality / Richard Powell Romare Bearden's Li'l Dan the Drummer Boy : coloring a story of the Civil War / Robert Burns Stepto Impressions and improvisations : a look at the prints of Romare Bearden / Mary Lee Corlett Bearden's Caribbean dimension / Sally Price and Richard Price Sheer mastery : Romare Bearden's final year / Myron Schwartzman Romare Bearden, an indelible imprint / David C. Driskell
