TY  - BOOK
AU  - Gilmore,Glenda Elizabeth
AU  - Bearden,Romare
TI  - Romare Bearden in the homeland of his imagination: an artist's reckoning with the South 
SN  - 9781469667867
PY  - 2022///]
CY  - Chapel Hill
PB  - The University of North Carolina Press
KW  - Bearden, Romare,
KW  - African American artists
KW  - Biography
KW  - Southern States
KW  - Middle class African Americans
N1  - "A Ferris and Ferris book."; Includes bibliographical references (pages [117]-150) and index; Love in slavery and freedom -- Home and away -- The price of the ticket -- Bearden's Harlem Renaissance -- Lost in abstraction -- From darkness to light -- Round-trip ticket
N2  - "Romare Bearden (1911-1988), one of the most prolific, original, and acclaimed American artists of the twentieth century, richly depicted scenes and figures rooted in the American South and the Black experience. Bearden hailed from North Carolina but was forced to relocate to the North when a white mob harassed [his family] in the 1910s. His family story is a compelling, complicated saga of Black middle-class achievement in the face of relentless waves of white supremacy. It is also a narrative of the generational trauma that slavery and racism inflicted over decades. But as Glenda Gilmore reveals in this trenchant reappraisal of Bearden's life and art, his work reveals his deep imagination, extensive training and rich knowledge of art history"--
ER  -