The Blues Aesthetic: Black Culture and Modernism

Author: Richard J. Powell
Publisher: Washington Project for the Arts
Year: 1989
Pages: 104

A powerful intervention in the study of American visual culture, The Blues Aesthetic shows how African American music contains a set of principles of performance that are also discoverable in art, especially painting, photography, dance, and sculpture, samples of which are reproduced in the catalogue.


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