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Author Harper, Phillip Brian

Title Abstractionist aesthetics [electronic resource] : artistic form and social critique in African American culture / Phillip Brian Harper.

Imprint New York and London : New York University Press, 2015.

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 Axe ACLS Humanities E-Book  Electronic Book    ---  Available
Description 268 p. : Grayscale Illustration ; 24 cm.
Series ACLS Humanities E-Book.
Note © 2015 by New York University.
"(What Did I Do to Be So) Black and Blue," music by Thomas "Fats" Waller and Harry Brooks, words by Andy Razaf. Copyright © 1929 (Renewed) EMI Mills Music, Inc., Chappell & Co., Inc., and Razaf Music Co. All Rights Reserved. Selected lyrics used by permission of Alfred Publishing Co., Inc., and Bienstock Publishing Company on behalf of Redwood Music Ltd.
"This Is Just to Say," by William Carlos Williams, from Collected Poems: Volume I, 1909-1939. Copyright © 1938 by New Directions Publishing Corp. Reprinted by permission of New Directions Publishing Corp. and Carcanet Press Ltd.
"The Colonel," by Carolyn Forché, from The Country between Us. Copyright © 1981 by Carolyn Forché. Previously published by Women's International Resource Exchange. Reprinted by permission of HarperCollins Publishers and Carolyn Forché.
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Also available as an ebook.
Credits Book design and composition by Nicole Hayward.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Black Personhood in the Maw of Abstraction -- Historical Cadence and the Nitty-Gritty Effect -- Telling It Slant -- Coda: The Literary Advantage.
Reproduction Electronic text and image data. Ann Arbor, Mich. : University of Michigan, Michigan Publishing, 2021. EPUB file. ([ACLS Humanities E-Book])
Note All rights reserved.
Subject African American aesthetics.
Abstraction.
African American arts -- Themes, motives.
African.
Genre/Form Electronic books
Added Author American Council of Learned Societies.
In: ACLS Humanities E-Book. URL: https://www.humanitiesebook.org/
ISBN 9781479865437 paper
9781479818365 paper
Standard No. 2027/heb33939 hdl

 
    
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