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A history of a past phenomenon - racial art - which has ramifications for the present

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

List of Illustrations

1. Introduction

2. The Meaning of Modernism

3. Making Race in American Religious Painting

4. Type/Face/Mask: Racial Portraiture

5. The Race of Landscape

6. Conclusion

Notes

Bibliography

Index

About the Author

Jacqueline Francis is a senior lecturer at the California College of the Arts.

Reviews

"Francis's subject is not only these three artists, but encompasses as well broader issues of how social identities are constructed at particular historical moments and the complex relationships among racial and ethnic identity positions, critical reception, patronage, and artistic style." Melanie Herzog, author of Milton Rogovin: The Making of a Social Documentary Photographer