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Title: Henry Ossawa Tanner: A Spiritual Biography (Lives and Legacies.) by Marcus Bruce, Henry Ossawa Tanner ISBN: 0-8245-1972-8 Publisher: Crossroad/Herder & Herder Pub. Date: February, 2002 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (1 review)
Rating: 5
Summary: Excellent biography of a great artist
Comment: One of the most stunning moments in my art-watching career came many years ago in the Philadelphia Museum of Art, when I suddenly came upon Henry Tanner's painting "The Annunciation." I remained transfixed for many minutes. It remains my favorite religious painting of the last couple of centuries. I soon learned that the artist was the first African-American to make it to the artistic top, the stratospheric heights of French Salon shows and membership in the American National Academy of Design. Tanner was almost forgotten for a long time, but there is a flock of webpages and internet resources on him now, as well as this wonderful biography.
Marcus Bruce has written a brief book that lays out Tanner's lifecourse, centering on the religious and spiritual side, which was, in fact, Tanner's true focus. (Tanner, a minister's son, remained deeply religious all his life.) This book is not only clear and authoritative; it has some of the most insightful art criticism that I have seen. Bruce is far from the "in the right corner we see a dog" school of art writing. He describes the paintings in relation to Tanner's spiritual quest, and Tanner's vision of the world and humanity. His account of my beloved "Annunciation" is a real masterpiece.
My only complaint with this book (besides sloppy editing--there are too many typos) is that it is too short and does not have color pictures! I hope, even pray, that Dr. Bruce will go on to do a full-scale, large-format art book about Henry Tanner, with the major works in full color. Tanner certainly deserves it--he still has not received the recognition he deserves--and Bruce is the man to do it.
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Title: Charles White (David C. Driskell Series of African American Art, V. 1) by Andrea D. Barnwell, Charles White ISBN: 0764921290 Publisher: Pomegranate Pub. Date: October, 2002 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
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Title: The Art of History: African American Women Artists Engage the Past by Lisa Gail Collins ISBN: 0813530229 Publisher: Rutgers University Press Pub. Date: 02 April, 2002 List Price(USD): $26.00 |
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Title: Lorna Simpson by Kellie Jones ISBN: 0714840386 Publisher: Phaidon Press Inc. Pub. Date: 15 November, 2002 List Price(USD): $39.95 |
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Title: Colored Pictures: Race and Visual Representation by Michael D. Harris, Moyo Okediji ISBN: 0807827606 Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press Pub. Date: 28 April, 2003 List Price(USD): $34.95 |
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Title: Kara Walker: Pictures From Another Time by Kara Walker, Thelma Golden, Robert Reid-Pharr, Annette Dixon ISBN: 1891024507 Publisher: Distributed Art Publishers Pub. Date: 15 October, 2002 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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