Description: This groundbreaking study explores the visual representations of Black culture across the globe throughout the twentieth century and into the twenty-first.
Brief description: Richard J. Powell is the John Spencer Bassett professor of art & art history at Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, where he has taught since 1989. His publications include: The Blues Aesthetic: Black Culture and Modernism, Cutting a Figure: Fashioning Black Portraiture, Going There: Black Visual Satire, and Homecoming: The Art and Life of William H. Johnson.
Review Quotes: Excellent artists' profiles, lots of reproductions, and illuminating and original discussions of the social and cultural contexts and implications-- "Booklist"