African American Creative Arts Reading List: Artists

• Black Art: In The Absence of Light

  At the heart of this feature documentary is the groundbreaking Two Centuries of Black American Art exhibition curated by the late African American artist and scholar David Driskell in 1976.
• Woman with Bird - Woodcut Print by David Driskell

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• African-American Art by Sharon F. Patton

  Call Number: eBook

  ISBN: 9780192842138

  Publication Date: 1998-06-25
• African American art : the long struggle by Britton, Crystal A.

  Call Number: eBook

  ISBN: 9781422278536

  Publication Date: 2018
• Bearing Witness: contemporary works by African American women artists by Jontyle Theresa Robinson; Tritobia H. Benjamin; Pearl Cleage; Beverly Guy-Sheftall; Akua McDaniel; Lowery Stokes-Sims; Judith Wilson; Maya Angelou; Johnnetta B. Cole

  Call Number: N6538.N5 B43 1996

  ISBN: 0847819620

  Publication Date: 1996-07-15
• African American Visual Arts by Celeste-Marie Bernier

  Call Number: N6538.N5 B47 2009

  ISBN: 9780807859339

  Publication Date: 2009-01-01

  Available at the HCC South Shore campus library. Choose Request to have the book sent to Plant City.
• Souls Grown Deep: African American vernacular art of the South. Volume one, The tree gave the dove a leaf by William Arnett (Editor); William S. Arnett (Editor)

  Call Number: N6538.N5 S68 2000

  ISBN: 0965376605

  Publication Date: 2000-11-22
• African American Art by Richard Powell; Virginia Mecklenburg; Theresa J. Slowik

  Call Number: N6538.N5 S595 2012

  ISBN: 9780847838905

  Publication Date: 2012-05-22

  Available at the HCC Brandon and Dale Mabry campus libraries. Choose Request to have the book sent to Plant City.
• In the Black Fantastic by Ekow Eshun

  Call Number: N8217.B535 E84 2022

  ISBN: 9780262047258

  Publication Date: 2022-09-06

• Amalia Amaki: boxes, buttons, and the blues by Andrea D. Barnwell

  Call Number: N6537.A435 A4 2005

  ISBN: 9780295985411

  Publication Date: 2005-08-01
• Radiant Child: the story of young artist Jean-Michel Basquiat by Javaka Steptoe

  Call Number: N6537.B233 S84 2016

  ISBN: 9780316213882

  Publication Date: 2016-10-25
• Black Artists on Art by Ruth Waddy; Samella S. Lewis

  Call Number: N6538.N5 L4

  ISBN: 9780941248006

  Publication Date: 1976
• Young, Gifted and Black: a New Generation of Artists by Antwaun Sargent (Editor, Text by); Thomas Lax (Text by); Jamillah James (Text by); Jessica Brown (Text by)

  Call Number: N6538.N5 L85 2020

  ISBN: 9781942884590

  Publication Date: 2020-09-22
• Black American Portraits : from the Los Angeles County Museum of Art by Christine Kim (Editor);

  Call Number: N7593 .B533 2023

  ISBN: 9781636810164

  Publication Date: 2023-01-17
• The Highwaymen: Florida's African-American landscape painters by Gary Monroe

  Call Number: ND1351.6 .M66 2001

  ISBN: 0813022819

  Publication Date: 2001-11-20

  Available at the Brandon and Dale Mabry campus libraries. Choose Request to have the book sent to Plant City.