Black Artists on Art. Volume 1 and 2

Samella S. Lewis and Ruth G. Waddy.

Contemporary Crafts, Inc. Los Angeles. 1976, revised edition, first published in 1969; 1971, first edition. 2 volumes, hardback, small quarto; grey cloth-bound boards, dust jackets. xi, 141; xii, 140. Illustrated throughout in colour and b&w. English. 270 x 190mm. 1.4kg. . Very good, in very good dust jackets; light wear and rubbing to jackets, 5cm tear to lower edge of front jacket of volume one, not price-clipped; slight browning to endpapers of volume one.

'BLACK ARTISTS ON ART is a book to promote change - change in order that art might function as expression rather than as an institution.'
 
Samella Lewis and Ruth Waddy's important survey of Afro-American artists active during the 1960s and '70s. The authors were themselves artists. The two volumes are compiled of profiles of black artists, sculptors and photographers, each including an artist's statement, a portrait photograph and reproductions of their works. Featured artists include Ibibio Fundi, Dana C. Chandler Jr, Lois Mailou Jones, Philip Mason, Benny Andrews, Murry Depillars, Dion Henderson, Dale Davis, Jacob Lawrence. Volume 1 is the revised and updated edition. An uncommon hardbound set.