Romare Bearden: Collage of Memories - Hardcover

Jan Greenberg

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0810945894 ISBN 13: 9780810945890

Publisher: Harry N. Abrams, 2003

Synopsis

Recounts the life of the twentieth-century African-American collage artist who used his southern childhood, New York City, jazz, and Paris to influence his bold and meaningful art.

About this title

About the Author:

Jan Greenberg, coauthor of Runaway Girl: The Artist Louise Bourgeois, has introduced young readers to a number of important 20th-century artists in her books. She is also the author of Heart to Heart: New Poems Inspired by Twentieth-Century American Art, named a Michael L. Printz Honor Book by the American Library Association. Greenberg lives in St. Louis.

From School Library Journal:

Grade 5-8-Greenberg's exploration of Bearden's art is filled with large, full-color reproductions, primarily of his mature works. The illustrations occasionally fill an entire page, and give readers an excellent overview of Bearden's style and subject matter. Some photographs of the artist are included as well. Using the collages and lithographs to reveal biographical snippets and memories results in disjointed and choppy text, both in sentence structure and in subject matter. The author hops around from one point to another with little warning or set up. Her admiration for her subject comes across clearly: "When we look at his paintings, we feel we could be right there with him running through a cotton field in North Carolina or sitting on the front stoop of a tenement in Harlem." The time line includes some new research, most notably that Bearden graduated from New York University with a degree in education, when previous accounts cited his degree as in mathematics. However, the date of his marriage to Nanette Rohan is given as 1951, when it was actually 1954. The pagination is also problematic, citing the wrong pages for quotes within the book. Also, there is nothing within the text of the book to indicate that a further explanation of a quote or definition of a term is located in the notes or glossary. Still, for its illustrations alone, schools or libraries with a high interest in art may wish to purchase this book.
Heather E. Miller, Homewood Public Library, AL
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About this edition

• Publisher: Harry N. Abrams
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0810945894
• ISBN 13: 9780810945890
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 52