Author: Amalia K. Amaki (Editor)
Publisher: Rutgers University Press/University of Delaware
Year: 2004
Pages: 259
ISBN: 978-0813534572

The Paul R. Jones Collection is one of the oldest, largest, and most comprehensive holdings of African American art in the world.  Lavishly illustrated with over one hundred color photographs, this book provides an important resource for the study of the works included in the Jones collection, the artists who created them, as well as the social and historical contexts that engendered them. The volume brings together ten essays, which examine four issues in American art: portraiture and realism in relation to abstract expressionism, the implications of color, the role of narrative, and the concept of multiple originals.