Facing History: The Black Image in American Art, 1710-1940

San Francisco, CA and Washington, D.C.: Bedford Arts; Corcoran Gallery of Art, 1990. 140 pages, illustrations (some colour); 32 cm. Catalogue of an exhibition held at the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., January 13 to March 25 and the Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY, April 20 to June 25, 1990. With an essay by Henry Louis Gates, Jr., and contributions by Janet Levine, Francis Martin, Jr., and Claudia Vess; edited by Christopher C. French. Withdrawn from library collection, with usual markings, otherwise very good. No writing in text. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. Richly illustrated with colour plates. "Four years in the making, Facing History was organized by Guy C. McElroy, Jr., for The Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. The exhibition documents the ways in which artists have created a complicated and often ambivalent visual record of African Americans that has reinforced, and sometimes opposed, a variety of stereotypes of black identity. It also demonstrates how social and cultural attitudes, as well as the historic events of the times, affected artists' representations of black society. The exhibition includes more than 100 paintings, sculptures, and drawings by over 60 artists. Among the African-American artists included are Joshua Johnson, Robert S. Duncanson, Edward Mitchell Bannister, Mary Edmonia Lewis, Archibald J. Motley, Jr., and Jacob Lawrence. Paintings by John Singleton Copley, William Sidney Mount, Winslow Homer, Thomas Eakins, Eastman Johnson, Robert Henri, Charles Demuth, Reginald Marsh, and Ben Shahn are also exhibited" - Publisher.. Paperback. Good. Folio.