Signifying identity : art and race in Romare Bearden's projections

Author

Glazer, Lee Stephens

Document type

Article (journal)

Language

English

Source

Art bulletin. 1994, Num. 3, Vol. 76, 411-426, 16 ill.

ISSN

0004-3079

Abstract (en)

In 1964, Romare Bearden exhibited a series of images of black life entitled Projections, initiating the improvisation on canonical art history and the challenge to popular stereotypes of African Americans that would characterize much of his subsequent work. Informed by Bearden's appropriation of Malraux's idea that art is a continuously evolving semiotic system, the collages and photostat enlargements that comprise Projections participate in a complex intertextual process of signifying identity that is one of the master tropes of African American cultural expression.

Subject (en)

• General history of art -- 1945-present -- Pictorial arts -- Other media and forms -- United States
• Bearden, Romare Howard, 1914-1988
• Collage
• United States
• Projections (series)
• African Americans
• Iconography
• Malraux, André, 1901-1976
• Influence

Subject (fr)

• Histoire générale de l'art -- 1945-présent -- Peinture et arts graphiques -- Autres formes d'art -- États-Unis
• Collage
• Etats-Unis
• Projections (série)
• Afro-Américains
• Iconographie
• Malraux, André, 1901-1976
• Influence

Origin

DatabaseBHA (Inist-CNRS/GRI)

Identifier19950101-00309102

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