Painting Harlem Modern: The Art of Jacob Lawrence

by Patricia Hills

Book Overview

Jacob Lawrence was one of the best-known African American artists of the twentieth century. In Painting Harlem Modern, Patricia Hills renders a vivid assessment of Lawrence's long and productive career. She argues that his complex, cubist-based paintings developed out of a vital connection with a modern Harlem that was filled with artists, writers, musicians, and social activists. She also uniquely positions Lawrence alongside such important...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520305507
• ISBN13: 9780520305502
• Release Date: February 2019
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 2.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 7.9" x 9.9"