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Bibliography for Teachers
Barringer, Tim, Gillian Forrester, and Barbaro Martinez-Ruiz. Art and Emancipation in Jamaica: Isaac Mendes Belisario and His Worlds. New Haven: Yale Center for British Art, 2007. Accessed June 25, 2023. https://aaeportal-com.yale.idm.oclc.org/?id=-18620. A detailed analysis of the history, technique, and impact of Isaac Mendes Belisario’s art depicting life in colonial Jamaica.
"Blackface: The Birth of An American Stereotype.” National Museum of African American History and Culture. Accessed July 14, 2023. https://nmaahc.si.edu/explore/stories/blackface-birth-american-stereotype. Informative article about the history and impact of blackface performances, with several illustrative artifacts.
Elleh, Nnamdi. “Bearden’s Dialogue with Africa and the Avant-Garde.” The Art of Romare Bearden: The Prevalence of Ritual. New York: Abrams, 1973. A collection of essays analyzing aspects of Bearden’s art.
Fine, Ruth and Jacqueline Francis, eds. Blake, Jody. Romare Bearden: American Modernist. Edited by Ruth Fine and Jacqueline Francis. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2011. A collection of essays analyzing Bearden’s art and influence.
Freedman, Samuel G. “A Voice from the Streets.” The New York Times Magazine (March 15, 1987): 36, accessed July 15, 2023, https://www.nytimes.com/1987/03/15/magazine/a-voice-from-the-streets.html. A feature about the work of August Wilson, including an interview with Wilson.
Karveh, Elham Jalali. “Myth as a semiological system in August Wilson’s Gem of the Ocean, Joe Turner’s Come and Gone and The Piano Lesson.” International Journal of English and Education 5, no. 4 (October 2016): 177-187. Accessed July 16, 2023. http://ijee.org/assets/docs/15.28112244.pdf. An analysis of Wilson’s use of African mythological elements in several of his plays.
“Kehinde Wiley." National Museum of African American History and Culture. Smithsonian: Washington. Accessed July 18, 2023. https://nmaahc.si.edu/kehinde-wiley. A biography of the artist.
“Kerry James Russell.” National Gallery of Art. 2023. Accessed July 18, 2023. https://www.nga.gov/collection/artist-info.35534.html. A biography of the artist.
“Looking: Ten Times Two.” Project Zero. Cambridge: Harvard College and Project Zero, 2022. Accessed July 17, 2023. https://pz.harvard.edu/sites/default/files/Looking%20-%20Ten%20Times%20Two_1.pdf. Description of a thinking routine to promote sustained viewing and close reading of an image or artwork.
Miller, Angela L., Janet C. Berlo, Bryan J. Wolf, and Jennifer L. Roberts. American Encounters: Art, History, and Cultural Identity. Upper Saddle River: Pearson, 2008. A comprehensive encyclopedic text examining American history through its art.
Molesworth, Helen. ed. Kerry James Marshall: Mastry. Chicago: Skira Rizzoli Publications, 2016. A collection of Marshall’s work published to accompany his 2016 exhibitions in Chicago, New York, and Los Angeles.
Paul, Annie. “Exorbitance.” Kehinde Wiley: A New Republic. Edited by Eugenie Tsai. New York: DelMonico Books & Prestel, 2015. A collection of art and essays published to accompany Wiley’s 2015 exhibit at the Brooklyn Museum.
“Portrait of John Soane Junior and George Soane, 1805.” Sir John Soane's Museum Collection Online. Sir John Soane’s Museum: London. Accessed July 16, 2023. https://collections.soane.org/object-p229. An image of the portrait accompanied with a brief description from the museum.
“Romare Bearden Biography.” Romare Bearden Foundation. The Romare Beard Foundation. Accessed July 18, 2023. https://beardenfoundation.org/romare-bearden/. A biography of the artist.
“The Slave Trade.” National Archives. The U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, Jan. 7, 2022. Accessed July 13, 2023. https://www.archives.gov/education/lessons/slave-trade.html. A brief introduction and a collection of National Archive primary sources related to the American slave trade.
Schwartzman, Myron. Romare Bearden, his life & art. New York: H.N. Abrams New York: H.N. Abrams, 1990. A comprehensive biography of Romare Bearden, mixing his life and art.
“Values, Identities, Actions.” Project Zero. Cambridge: Harvard College and Project Zero, 2022. Accessed July 17, 2023. https://pz.harvard.edu/sites/default/files/Looking%20-%20Ten%20Times%20Two_1.pdf. Description of a thinking routine to promote sustained viewing and close reading of an image or artwork.
“White Chicks.” IMDb. 2023. Accessed July 16, 2023. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0381707/. Movie trailers and information about the 2004 film featuring Shawn and Marlon Wayans.
Wilson, August. Gem of the Ocean. New York: Theater Communications Group, 2006.
Wood, Marcus. Visual representations of slavery in England and America, 1780-1865. New York: Manchester University Press, 2000.
List of Visual Art Images and References
Figure 1: Turner, Joseph Mallord William. Slavers Throwing Overboard the Dead and Dying, Typhon Coming On, 1840. Boston, Museum of Fine Art. Accessed July 18, 2023. https://collections.mfa.org/objects/31102/slave-ship-slavers-throwing-overboard-the-dead-and-dying-t.
Figure 2: London Committee of the Society for Effecting the Abolition of the Slave Trade. Description of a Slave Ship, 1789. Princeton, Princeton University Library. Accessed July 18, 2023. https://dpul.princeton.edu/wa/catalog/qj72p788s.
Figure 3: Wood engraving (1915) based on Capture of a Slave Ship by Joseph Noel Paton, 1867. The Ganges Family History Project. Accessed July 18, 2023. https://thegangesfamilies.com/about/.
Figure 4: Meynell, Francis. View of the Deck of the Slave Ship Albanoz, 1846. Wikimedia Commons. Accessed July 18, 2023. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Transatlantic_Slave_Ship.jpg.
Figure 5: Marshall, Kerry James. Voyager, 1992. Washington, National Gallery of Art. Accessed July 18, 2023. https://www.nga.gov/collection/art-object-page.159651.html.
Figure 6: “Wm. H. West's Big Minstrel Jubilee.” Washington, Library of Congress. Accessed July 18, 2023. https://www.loc.gov/resource/var.1831/.
Figure 7: Cover to early edition of Jump Jim Crow sheet music. Wikimedia Commons. Accessed July 18, 2023. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jimcrow.jpg.
Figure 8: Outcault, Richard Felton. “Postcard depicting a caricatured boy eating a slice of watermelon,” 1909. Washington, Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. Accessed July 18, 2023. https://nmaahc.si.edu/object/nmaahc_2007.7.404.
Figure 9: Brown, Abram M. Mills in Strip District, Pittsburgh, 1906. Pittsburgh, Carnegie Museum of Art. Accessed July 18, 2023. https://collection.carnegieart.org/objects/de9371ee-f5b1-433e-8e41-99077becc072.
Figure 10: Torrance, Hew Charles. “Pittsburgh: Mill Scene,” 1900-1930. Pittsburgh, Carnegie Museum of Art. Accessed July 18, 2023. https://collection.carnegieart.org/objects/f88dc4f8-7451-4d96-adb3-8b878beca491.
Figure 11: Detroit Publishing Company. “Panoramic View of Pittsburgh.” Carnegie Museum of Art. 1908. Accessed July 14, 2023. https://collection.carnegieart.org/objects/034e82a4-0b1a-4837-bb1b-831f9ebcbb96.
Figure 12: “Pittsburgh: Market District.” Carnegie Museum of Art. Accessed July 14, 2023. https://collection.carnegieart.org/objects/2a96517a-a80a-4a04-93ae-a97001f67fbd.
Figure 13: Bearden, Romare. Tomorrow I May Be Far Away, 1967. Washington, National Gallery of Art. Accessed July 18, 2023. https://www.nga.gov/collection/highlights/bearden-tomorrow-i-may-be-far-away.html/.
Figure 14: Bearden, Romare. Pittsburgh, 1965. Swann Auction Galleries. Accessed July 18, 2023. https://catalogue.swanngalleries.com/Lots/auction-lot/ROMARE-BEARDEN-Pittsburgh?saleno=2049&lotNo=77&refNo=555508.
Figure 15: Bearden, Romare. The Prevalence of Ritual: Baptism, 1964. Washington, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution. Accessed July 18, 2023. https://collections.si.edu/search/detail/edanmdm:hmsg_66.410?q=url%3A%22edanmdm%3Ahmsg_66.410%22&record=1&hlterm=url%3A%26quot%3Bedanmdm%3Ahmsg_66.410%26quot%3B&inline=true.
Figure 16: Bearden, Romare. Sermons: The Walls of Jericho, 1964. Washington, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution. Accessed July 18, 2023. https://collections.si.edu/search/detail/edanmdm:hmsg_66.408?q=record_ID%3Ahmsg_66.408&record=1&hlterm=record_ID%3Ahmsg_66.408&inline=true.
Figure 17: Bearden, Romare. The Cojur Woman, 1964. New York, The Museum of Modern Art. Accessed July 18, 2023. https://www.moma.org/collection/works/36567.
Figure 18: Bearden, Romare. The Conjur Woman, 1964. Art of Collage. Accessed July 18, 2023. https://artofcollage.files.wordpress.com/2011/01/conjur-woman-1964-collage-mm-board-9x7.jpg.
Figure 19: Bearden, Romare. Prelude to Farewell, 1981. New York, Studio Museum Harlem. Accessed July 18, 2023. https://studiomuseum.org/collection-item/prelude-farewell.
Figure 20: Bearden, Romare. Pepper Jelly Lady, 1980. Washington, Smithsonian Museum of American Art. Accessed July 18, 2023. https://americanart.si.edu/artwork/pepper-jelly-lady-1625.
Figure 21: Moorhead, Scipio. “Portrait of Phyllis Wheatly,” 1773. New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art. Accessed July 18, 2023. https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/396463.
Figure 22: Wiley, Kehinde. Portrait of John and George Soane, 2013. London, Stephen Friedman Gallery. Accessed July 18, 2023. https://www.stephenfriedman.com/artists/56-kehinde-wiley/works/7867/.
Figures 23-27: Belisario, Isaac Mendes, 1795-1849, Sketches of character: in illustration of the habits, occupation, and costume of the Negro population, in the island of Jamaica / , Kingston, Jamaica : Published by the artist, at his residence, no. 21 King-Street ..., 1837[-1838]. Yale Center for British Art. Accessed July 18, 2023. https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/orbis:4515511.
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