Black Artists on Art 1+2. - Samella Lewis & Ruth Waddy
£400.00
LEWIS, Samella & Ruth Waddy.
Black Artists on Art 1+2.
First edition. 4to. 2 hardcover volumes, 132 and 140pp. Cloth in printed dust wrappers. Colour and b&w plates throughout. Los Angeles: Ward Press, 1969 and 1971.
Dustwrappers a little damaged and with annotations throughout.
An incredible survey of African American artists working in the sixties and early seventies across a diversity of disciplines. Each volume includes a selection of imagery and often a commentary or statement from the artists themselves. With over 70 artists profiled in each volume including David Hammons, Betye Saar, William Pryor, Lois Maliou Jones, Benny Andrews and many more.
